Media & Appearances

From the Sydney Sunday Herald. Interview by Steve Meacham for Poet's Cottage. March 18, 2012 - CLICK ON LINK TO VIEW ARTICLE

Double page feature of the Tasmanian town that inspired Poet's Cottage in April 2012 Good Reading magazine including personal family photographs from our holidays in Stanley.
APPEARANCES
2007
August 3
Book Launch: The First Cut
This anthology of crime short stories (Mira Books, $xx) features all the Scarlet Stiletto winners including Birthing The Demons by Josephine Pennicott
The launch is at Leo’s, Fitzroy Road, St Kilda (Melbourne) on August 3rd 2007.
Special guest is acclaimed actress Sigrid Thornton (Sea Change, Man From Snowy River, etc etc).
Panel on writing: talk by Josephine Pennicott, ?, ?
ading: The Writing Show, Fourteen Days Of Halloween
(US Radio)
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2005
October 20
Reading: The Writing Show, Fourteen Days Of Halloween
(US Radio)
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2004
September 25
Writing Festival, UTS (University of Technology, Sydney)
Saturday 4pm, Bonmarche Building, UTS, Broadway.
Panel discussion: “Why is academia afraid of dragons?”
Appearing with Kate Forysth and Christian Read
(more detailed directions: Building 3 – to the right of main tower building – level 4, room 24. Follow the signs!)
March 27
Book signing 1pm-2pm
Infinitas Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookshop
Shop 5 No 1 Horwood Place, Parramatta (Sydney)
March 6
Magic Casements II: A Festival Of Speculative Fiction
1.30pm-2.45pm Enchanting The Reader (free admission)
(Panel discussion with Kate Forsyth, Robert
Stephenson and Josephine Pennicott)
What Techniques do horror, fantasy and sci-fi writers use to take their readers along on journeys into the worlds of the imagination? How do they persuade readers to accept the conventions of the genre and to believe in their creations?
NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle (Sydney)
Full program and details from www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
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2003
September 13
Magic Casements: A Festival Of Speculative Fiction
Magic, Sorcery, Wizardry and the Spirit World
NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle
with Kate Forsyth & Gillian Polack
September 9
Leichhardt Library, The Forum
with Kate Forsyth
May 17
Friends of Science Fiction, FSF Convention
Lidcombe Catholic Workmen’s Club
with Danny Strong and Tom Lenk (from Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
April 3
Infinitas Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookshop
Parramatta
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2002
July 6
Popular Writer’s Festival, Rozelle
with Traci Harding and Caiseal Mor