There will be publication:Yellowcake short story collection (in Australia)—Marchthe selkies novel (in Australia)—Septembera quartet of stories from Twelfth Planet Press—not sure when.
There will be writing:yes, that quartet—it's one-quarter done, kinda2 other short stories by end January (both drafted)one other short story by end February (drafted but in need of remaking, not completely from scratch, but nearly).From the beginning of February there'll be a fair bit of resting, because that's the end of my contracted/voluntary obligations, and I've been under, well, stupid deadlines since about May this year.

However, I've got this NSW colonial novel that I want to get started on, and it involves a nice distracting pile of research—and no deadline as yet—so I'll probably kick on with that.

Also I might, you know, come up with a story idea or two that's not already promised to someone, and have a go.

But there's also the day-job (3 days a week, confirmed until end of February at this point) and a couple of Literature Board commitments to fulfil (policy meeting Feb, assessment of grant apps, May-June), as well as...


Travel plansearly March—Perth Writers Festivalmid-May—Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, with added lollygagging around the North Island, I hopeJune–July—trip to the US, including teaching at Clarion West. A couple of other teaching possibilities are being explored at the moment—will let you know as they're finalised.All this is in response to Marianne's invitation to share your writing plans on her blog, where she confesses to having so many books on the boil, it makes my head spin.

What kind of a year have you got lined up? Or are you trying not to look too closely yet? :D