Gold Coast Writers Literary Luncheon

YIPEE! I, Karen Tyrrell will be a Guest Author at the Gold Coast Writers Literary Luncheon. I’ll be chatting with writers over a relaxed lunch, sharing my writing secrets. Can’t wait to find out the WINNERS of the short story writing competition. AND hear the dynamic guest speaker too.

Thanks Jill Smith, author and committee […]

I’m Speaking at Gold Coast Writers Festival

SQUEE! I’m bursting to tell you! I’m speaking at the Gold Coast Writers Festival at Robina Town Centre on 27 th October. This is my very FIRST writer’s festival so I’m squeeing with glee! Kathy Stewart, GCWF organizer “loved” reading ME & HER: a Memoir of Madness.

Kathy invited […]

AUGUST is Awesome …WRITING Events & Opportunities Galore!

August is jam packed with eXciting events, and promises of speaking and writing opportunities herald the future.

AUGUST is Sci-Fi Fantasy Month at Logan North Library

Zombies, wizards, vampires, steam punkers, star trekkers and super heroes abound at Logan North Library for the month of August.

Brisbane’s elite speculative fiction authors … Rowena Cory […]

How to Write a Successful Story using my #10 TOP WRITING Secrets

Do you want a story that connects with the reader? Leaving them begging for more? A story that is publishable and in big demand? … Then follow my #10 Secrets for a successful story.

Mental Health & Creative Writing: My Parallel Journey

This Saturday I’ll reveal my unique journey to publishing to a crowd of Brisbane writers … How did I combine my dual passions for mental health and creative writing?

In January, Mark Russell, vice president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland invited me to speak at the Brisbane FAW meeting on June 25th. He […]

Why I wrote Me and Her?

‘Me and Her: a Memoir of Madness’ … After parents harass me at school, I reach breaking point and my Personality and Mood begins to change. The true events surrounding my mental breakdown are stranger than any fiction novel you might read.

In the beginning severe anxiety and insomnia stretching over a year changed my […]

Boost your Creativity!

Try these Tricks to jump-start your CREATIVITY with fresh ideas every day. The Initial Idea: can be inspired from movies, dreams, paintings, personal experiences, newspapers and magazines, beautiful books, photographs, pictures, music, poetry … Take a small notebook / Voice recorder/ Video Camera for Inspirations wherever you go. Collect pictures and clippings into a scrap […]