Upcoming Projects
The Lake Macquarie Play Project
The Lake Macquarie Play Project is a new multi-playwright play generator led by Artistic Producer Augusta Supple and designed to celebrate the diverse voices, histories, and communities of the Lake Macquarie community.
Over two 4-hour sessions, up to eight writers from an open call out will be selected to co-create a new 45-minute theatre
The Lake Macquarie Play Project is a new multi-playwright play generator led by Artistic Producer Augusta Supple and designed to celebrate the diverse voices, histories, and communities of the Lake Macquarie community.
Over two 4-hour sessions, up to eight writers from an open call out will be selected to co-create a new 45-minute theatre script, about and for the community of Lake Macquarie.
Through a collaborative writers' room process, the writers will create and develop a unique playscript that celebrates the voices and perspectives of the local community.
The final draft will be presented in a reading on the last day of the play generator.
ROMANIAN/ AUSTRALIAN ANTHOLOGY | DIALOGUES
Dialogues is the 10th volume of the Romanian/Australian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry & Prose, celebrating a decade of literary exchange between Romania and Australia.
Published by Sfântul Ierarh Nicolae Publishing House (Brăila, Romania, 2026), the anthology features writers from both Romania and Australia.
Mihaela Cristescu, Coordinat
Dialogues is the 10th volume of the Romanian/Australian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry & Prose, celebrating a decade of literary exchange between Romania and Australia.
Published by Sfântul Ierarh Nicolae Publishing House (Brăila, Romania, 2026), the anthology features writers from both Romania and Australia.
Mihaela Cristescu, Coordinator
S.E. Crawford, English Editor
Luminița Șerbănescu, Art
Carol Amos, President NWG Inc.
Dr Luke Carman, Guest Writer
The launch is presented by Mihaela Cristescu at the State Library of NSW.
Parramatta's Lit! 2026
Parramatta's Lit! 2026
Parramatta’s Lit! returns in September 2026, bringing the city back to life with a bold, community-driven celebration of writing, storytelling and workshops.
Built by and for Western Sydney, the festival will once again showcase the depth, diversity and ambition of our local literary ecology — from grassroots collectives to established pub
Parramatta’s Lit! returns in September 2026, bringing the city back to life with a bold, community-driven celebration of writing, storytelling and workshops.
Built by and for Western Sydney, the festival will once again showcase the depth, diversity and ambition of our local literary ecology — from grassroots collectives to established publishers, from emerging voices to sector leaders.
Expressions of Interest open in April 2026, inviting Western Sydney and Parramatta-based writers, publishers, book clubs, zine makers and literary and writing organisations to put forward events, workshops, conversations and creative experiments for the 2026 program.
Parramatta’s Lit! offers a platform to connect with audiences, collaborators and peers across the city.
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
The Writer Versus The Machine
The Year of Dating Dangerously
The Year of Dating Dangerously
A live playwriting performance which is part theatre, part social experiment: eight playwrights write in real time in response to audience-generated prompts across a 48 hour period.
At the 40 hour mark, I will feed the same prompts the writers received into Chat GPT to generate a 1 Act Play.
The final two hours professional actors read both scripts to an audience and ask which they prefer.
The Year of Dating Dangerously
The Year of Dating Dangerously
The Year of Dating Dangerously
The Year of Dating Dangerously is a romantic comedy television series exploring the messy, hopeful and often absurd ways we search for love in the digital age. Following three women and three men as they navigate intimacy, rejection and desire, the series sits somewhere between Eat Pray Love and 500 Days of Summer.
The series was developed through residencies at the Lake House Residency, supported by Lake Macquarie City Council, and Daffodil Cottage, supported by the Ades Family Foundation. These residencies provided dedicated time and space for foundational development, including story mapping, character arcs and the writing of the series treatment and pilot.
The Year of Dating Dangerously grew from an earlier short work, Played List, published in the Romanian–Australian Anthology Street Musicians, and continues to evolve as a contemporary exploration of connection, longing and modern romance.