Sprucing up the website a little. Visit the revised page for Michael Bernard Kelly

Also, a page for Bent Street – we’re making pdfs available of issue 1-2017 and 2-2018.

Poetry and images by Guy James Whitworth. Never Held A Gun (Rainshadow, 2025)

Amazon. The Bookshop.

Here is the hardback case cover …

Champagne at Three: The Story of a Trans Mining Engineer by Jill Blee

ISBN: 978-1-7637356-1-3.

Having lived the first half of her life as male, Rebecca Norton sought medical intervention to become a woman, only to find that those whose support she longed for could not, or would not give it. Born in Ballarat, her career took her from the mining industry in Mount Isa to a range of jobs in remote parts of Australia and the world.

Jill Blee was educated at Sacred Heart College, Ballarat. She completed a Diploma in Applied Chemistry at the Ballarat School of Mines. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at Macquarie University in 1990 followed by a Master of History while at the same time completing  a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of Western Sydney (1995). In 1999 she returned to Ballarat to complete a PhD at Ballarat University, now Federation University, on the Irish in Ballarat in the Gold Rush Era.  She is the author of the historical novel The Pines Hold Their Secrets, The Liberator’s Birthday, and her semi-biographical novel, Brigid, as well as writing several commissioned histories. She still teaches history.

Contact: jillblee1@gmail.com

Available now from Booktopia and other online outlets.