Australia
Since graduating QUT's Creative and Professional Writing undergraduate course in 2014, Lu has travelled extensively and supplemented her travel and writing with full-time work in various roles (bartender, nanny, travel agent, retail worker, life drawing model, piano tutor, mental health/disability support worker, secretary).
During this time, she wrote in private - always under the cover of nightfall and often just for the love of the practise.
It took a lot to convince my parents that I was ready for my first solo trip overseas. I had been waiting long enough with too many friends agreeing to join and then never saving enough money, or pulling out when the fantasy wore off.
Neilsen, Philip. Wildlife of Berlin. Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing, 2018. RRP $22.99. 108pp. ISBN 9781742589619 Lucy Walding Wildlife of Berlin is Philip Neilsen's sixth solo poetry collection. Neilsen is adjunct professor of creative writing at Queensland University of Technology and teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Queensland.
Farr, Tracy, The Hope Fault. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Press, 2017. RRP: $29.99, 340 pp, ISBN: 9781925164404. Lucy Walding Write what you know. This is one of the most well-known and followed pieces of advice for writers. By doing this you are telling a realistic story, as well as one that many readers can identify with.
Cassie Flanagan Willanski, Here Where We Live. Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield Press 2016. RRP: $24.95, 160pp. ISBN: 9781743054031 Lucy Walding Willanski's Here Where We Live, is a brave and honest look at the relationship between white Australians and Indigenous Australians, through a white Australian perspective.