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Penelope Walker – writer

Creative and Professional Writing

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Posted on March 17, 2019March 17, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. Themes: redemption through suffering, family breakdown, domestic violence, grief and resilience. More subtly, the film… Read more Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Fairytale from the oven

Posted on March 10, 2019March 3, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

Here the dieter lags behind,
crippled by fashion

The Trainer

Posted on March 3, 2019March 3, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

Oliver yawns and rolls his head slowly, easing the stiffness that has gathered while he slept. The gentle heat of… Read more The Trainer

Why have you come?

Posted on February 23, 2019February 19, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

White noise fills my mind
and for long moments two
and two make

nothing.

Interview with Michael Moshos (2015).

Posted on February 17, 2019February 17, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

Michael is a young Perth-born Writer/Director/Actor. When I first met him he had just finished a run in a Fringeworld… Read more Interview with Michael Moshos (2015).

After Class

Posted on February 10, 2019February 10, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

On a river of carmine gliding North in calm serenity I metamorphose,

At Eternity’s Gate – A Review

Posted on February 2, 2019February 3, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

The casting of Willem Dafoe, who won Best Actor for his performance at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, is inspired. He portrays the complex gamut of emotions experienced by the tortured artist so deftly, that the act of watching becomes an exercise in empathy.

The Winch Handle

Posted on January 27, 2019January 29, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

He appeared in the companionway hatch, just his head and torso visible as he surveyed the overcast sky, cloud formations surging and swelling, beer froth along the rim of the horizon.

Interview with a Holocaust Survivor – Richard Ferago

Posted on January 20, 2019January 20, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

Richard is a spritely 91 year old with gentle blue-green eyes and a soft manner. I had a preconceived idea… Read more Interview with a Holocaust Survivor – Richard Ferago

Salted Memory

Posted on January 13, 2019January 20, 2019 by Penelope Walker - Writer

I sit at the prow of Dads boat

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