June 2020 – Bethany Keats

Finding Place. Townsville, five years in

June 20, 2020 by Bethany Keats

Two pairs of feet standing on sand, small wave coming up to meet them

Suitcase in hand and a shipping container to follow, I set foot in Townsville for the first time on 19 June 2015. It was dark when I arrived. I didn’t know what my new home looked like until the morning. A few weeks earlier I’d signed a contract to move across the country to a … [Read more…]

I used to write.

June 15, 2020 by Bethany Keats

black book with bright birds on the cover, two black pens next to it, all on a white cloth background

I used to consider myself a writer. It was a part of my identity. I always wrote things when I was younger. Poems. Stories. The Next Best-Selling Young Adult Novel. For a while it turned to letters. Elaborate letters home when I was living abroad. Whatever it was, I was always writing. I went to … [Read more…]

Bethany Keats: writer, PhD student, ballerina

Month: June 2020

Finding Place. Townsville, five years in

I used to write.