Congratulations to Hobart based writer, Heather Rose, who won the award this year – great to have a Tassie writer win the year it was hosted locally in Lutruwita.
Tag: Fran Cairns
Happy 1st Anniversary – ‘Falling for Water’
Happy Birthday 'Falling for Water' - what a wonderful year it has been connecting with so many water lovers - thank you to everyone for your support and enthusiasm for Earth's most precious element...
Speaking to the Society of Women Writers – Tasmania
I'd like thank Sue Young from Ashwood Publishing, and opportunities like this one, for helping to bring my new novel Falling for Water out into the world.
Book Club Discussion Kit
Lovely to see that Falling for Water is being chosen by book clubs. I have put together a brief discussion kit to help enhance readers' experience. Always happy to answer more questions or make myself available to meet clubs, either in person or via zoom. Falling for Water by Francesca Cairns (220 pages) A September … Continue reading Book Club Discussion Kit
Interview on International Womens Day 2026
Lovely to have the opportunity to speak with Lucie Cutting and listeners on IWD 2026 LISTEN HERE:
Do you remember
For Nettie
First light earth’s light rim greyed with storm. First awareness born as wind’s realm swirls whispering promise of your coming… Full rounded belly pregnant cloud hangs, waiting, as do I… Electric otherworld rumbles as you turn my way and I taste, in the flaring intensity, your elemental urgency for expression, for connection, for release. … Continue reading For Nettie
From afar
As a shift in the current, a quickening, you appear through my day to play across my lips as a smile that lightens these eyes. Ethereal one, shimmering at the edge of my psyche, how strangely you touch my senses From afar… Could I, from here reach for your hand and thank you … Continue reading From afar
For Ronny
It’s been a long time, old friend, made longer by the fullness of years passing. No doubt your life, like mine, was flush with chapters of life insistent, laying claim to every precious irredeemable moment. Dislodging the last, replacing the past with that ceaseless passion for next page, the next story, the next truth. Yet … Continue reading For Ronny
Today I watched over the fjord
Today I watched over the fjord counting the years since I fell into the ocean of your loving. Captivated, as the water in fathoms immeasurable, between sculpted cliff and boulder, leaning shoulder to shoulder, like the hours and days passing. Keepers of memory and time, these ancient guides, scribe watermarks indelibly in their sides. Adrift … Continue reading Today I watched over the fjord