Category: writing

  • BRWF 2018

    Two years ago I went to the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival and it was one of my all time favourite events. I’m very excited to be heading back down south this June to spend some time with a slew of wonderful people. I’ll be at these things if you want to chat and/or throw…

  • Canberra and the Commonwealth

    Hello person who is reading this. This post exists in order to announce 2 x exciting things! Exciting thing the first: I’ll be performing at one of the satellite events for the Commonwealth games on Thursday the 12th of April. Tales and Ales will feature some of my favourite humans, who also happen to be…

  • Aurealis

    Between the podcast, poetry, my big fat secret project, and trying to finish two novels I haven’t had a lot of time to write short stories, but I’m thrilled to announce that I have a story in this month’s Aurealis.  It’s probably one of the weirdest and darkest things I’ve ever written, but I also made…

  • Six Cold Feet Episode 1- Born under a bad sign

    We are very excited to share the first full episode of our series Six Cold Feet! In episode 1 we meet our narrator, River, and some of the curious inhabitants of the town of Ullara. River tells us about Harmony’s unusual past. If you dig it please rate us on whatever podcast platform you use.…

  • Gimme Empathy podcast interview

    Scott Mercer was kind enough to have me on his new podcast Gimme Empathy.   We talked about grief, death, batman, goldeneye, calcified amygdalae, Nick Cave, insomnia etc. He also has a very useful tip for how to not poison yourself.   http://gimmeempathy.libsyn.com/6-let-your-sh-t-fall-apart-with-jm-donellan

  • Six Cold Feet

    Very excited to finally share the teaser trailer for my podcast series Six Cold Feet! Episodes coming soon, follow the facebook group here. Can’t wait to hear what you think!

  • 100 books a year 2016 part one: The Good

    2016 has been an uncommonly awful year, luckily it’s in its final death throes. As we listen to its final hideous gasps and groans, perhaps it’s time to think about how we got to this terrible, stupid place. I would argue that the two underlying concepts that brought us here are lack of education and lack…

  • Let’s talk freely about free speech (for free).

    Hello, I’m very angry! Are you angry? Fair enough, there’s plenty to be angry about. Sometimes when people are angry they say things which they shouldn’t. Not shouldn’t as in ‘you are not permitted to do that particular thing’ but shouldn’t as in ‘it would really be in everyone’s best interest if you didn’t do…

  • Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival

    Good morrow, readers and rabble-rousers! I’m very excited to be travelling down to the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival next week. Although I must admit I am slightly terrified by the fact that my road tripping buddy and fellow Pantera Press author Graham Potts issued a (suicide) request for people to suggest the most horrible…

  • How to become a New York Limes Bestsmelling Author.

    Over the last few years I’ve had many aspiring writers come to me for advice as they seek to make their way through the confusing labyrinth that is the publishing industry. Sometimes it’s simple queries like ‘should I get an agent?’, sometimes more bizarre requests like ‘for the love of God could you please stop…