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Bethany Keats: writer, PhD student, ballerina

Month: June 2020

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…]

Posted in: Who am I? Tagged: life, Place

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…]

Posted in: Who am I? Tagged: Identity, Writing

In Defence of Reading Challenges

June 10, 2020 by Bethany Keats
Looking down to a book open on my lap, cute shoes below

I’d stopped reading. I loved it, but I’d stopped. Somewhere between 2010 and 2015 I became a lapsed reader. And I was most definitely a lapsed reader by 2017. Which is why I took up the JCU Library Reading Challenge in 2018. And it’s thanks to that reading challenge I got reading again. I didn’t … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books Tagged: books, challenges, life

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