Inner Flash

by G McDougall

Overview

After his 'Pilgrimage' travel series, this is Garry's Australian stories, experiences, insights and flashes gleaned from the everyday. It's poetry and story kept fresh and colourful.
Inner Flash: Get your Wordsworth. Lucid, affectionate storytelling found in a flash of brilliance and honed with craftsmanship. Includes two responses to the Je-Suis-Charlie events, plus Tribute to Kiama, Patting the Dog, Coconut Soup, Tipsy, (for those special occasions), Pasha Bulka, (a stranded ship on Newcastle Beach), Not Yet Treasure, Mangrove Mountain 1942, Canberra Chill, Potts Hill Lad, Parrot D'day, The Hour of In-Between, The Destiny of Frogs, For Zana and Sydney Harbour ekphrasis (look it up). Hey. Life is worth living. Poetry Saves Lives.
'Style is knowing who you, what you have to say, and not giving a damn.'
For a free reading of Patting The Dog, winner of the Peter Cowan Short story Prize, https://soundcloud.com/user-680876424/pod-1-patting-the-dog

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046556865
Publisher:	G McDougall
Publication date:	01/10/2015
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	509 KB

About the Author

The Author was winner of the Art-In-Unusual-Places Grant (2022), a Feature Poet at the Sydney Writers Festival (2018), Balmain Institute founder and President (2007-14), and winner, Ros Spenser Short Story Prize with Patting The Dog (2017). He is author of over thirty books, including six novels, fourteen poetry, travel and short stories, and numerous photo books. Founder of Pamela Press, he is published in international magazines, with photos exhibited in eleven countries.
The Author is the Camino de Santiago's most prolific author with ten eBooks and several paperbacks. He has extensive travel and teaching experience, and won Australian ecotourism, community project and literary prizes and grants. He co-created an Official NSW Bicentennial Project, the 250 km 'Great North Walk'. After many years managing Great Australian Walks, he refocused on photography, painting and storytelling, with seven novels.
'Belonging' is a fictional-biography of a 'black doctor' in colonial Australia. 'Starts With C' is a murder mystery where we don't who is the murder, who has been murdered, and who's telling the story. The third novel is the acclaimed 'Knowing Simone' set in Victor Hugo's France. 'Blacksmith and Canon' is volume one of the series '1503'. Inheritance is the second volume, with volumes 3 and 4 due in 2025. In between, he wrote, Sea Voices, inspired by a WW2 event in the Pacific.
Recent Awards include; Winner, Art-in-Usually-Places Grant, 2022, Wollongong City; Winner, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, with 'Patting the Dog', Highly Commended, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize; Second, Peter Cowan Poetry Prize, and Feature Poet in the Sydney Writers festival. Included in numerous poetry and short story anthologies, Garry was Balmain Institute's president for seven years, a member of 'That Authors Collective' and 'Diverse' poetry group. He lives south of Sydney in the great and beautiful Illawarra.