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Frances Macaulay Forde
~ a writer for page & screen...

         WELCOME!

         Sue Coughlan writes for page & screen under the name of Frances Macaulay Forde
            to honour her mother and father ~ heavily involved in a thriving creative community
            of film, poetry, books and theatre in Perth, Western Australia on the Sunset Coast.

            As a poet, most recently published in INDIGO JOURNAL Vol 3 (2009),
            which may be purchased on-line and featured on FREMANTLE PRESS .

                           'LOVE YOU MUM' ~ short film (18 mins) DVD

                          The film of my short script 'Love You Mum' made in
                           Adelaide by Producer Matt Pearson & Director David
                           Ockenden, continues to surprise and delight us with
                           nominations or 'selected to screen' at Film festivals
                           here, in Canada and even Hollywood!

                            More LOVE YOU MUM pages on the AWARDS, SCRIPTS etc

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                           NO STRINGS ~ the movie (feature adaptation) options held
                                              on 'No' series of books by Krista Bell since 2005.

                           FEATURE SCRIPT SEEKING PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

                          The feature script has been Professionally assessed by
                           the AWG & seperately by Script Assessment & Development .

                          Comments received on the script 'No Strings':

                          'Head and shoulders above anything else out there.'
                          Jarred Morris ~ Script Asessment & Development.

                          ' Take it straight to Disney because there's no-one in Australia
                           big enough to do it justice.'    Scott Meek, AFC.
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               POET'S CORNER:

                In 2005, I organised and hosted the first POETS CORNER @ Pages Cafe.
                For the next three years until October 2008, the monthly event attracted
                many well-known and famous poets who generously read alongside
                first-time and emerging writers.

                As a thank you for their amazing generosity I produced a small chapbook
                honouring their contributions Pages Cafe '05 & intend in the future to further
                promote & present poets & poetry through various media.

                         January, we launched Tracy Ryan's latest book 'Scar revision'

                         Vivienne Glance was the guest host in February with her Slamming poets ,

                         March was devoted to Afief Ismail Abdelrazig a well-known Sudanese poet.

                        April featured Victoria Lake with her Primo Lux poets etc.

                         June featured BUSH POETS with Wayne Pantell & Irene Connor etc.

                         July saw the Launch of 'The Roof Milkers' and FAWWA's 'Lines in the Sand'.

                         NATIONAL POETRY WEEK saw two Poets Corner events:

                         16th August: hosted by Andrew Burke with well-known POET PARTNERS
                         30th August: an OPEN MIC event with ABC Radio's Mike Ladd.

                         October featured guest Host Andrew Lansdown with his invited guests ~
                          the last Poets Corner @ Pages Cafe.

                 Poets Corner : Webpage & BLOG

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