Write Home of the Sunset

Twenty days in a country is not long. But in twenty days you can smell spices, taste coffee, hear the call to prayer, and see mosques and minarets.


Visit the Gallipoli peninsula and feel – a hundred years on – what it must have been like to be

an ANZAC in 1915.


When it comes to impacting the senses, Turkey ticks all the boxes.


Author Biography:

Leigh Hay is a freelance writer and editor. Co-author of the best selling Mind Your Mind-Rational thinking strategies for children, Leigh is also a former ASG May Gibbs Nutcote Fellowship Writer-in-Residence. An award winning poet, Leigh’s work has been published in a number of Australian anthologies. 


Photographer Biography:

David Hay counts himself extremely lucky to have a talented writer and editor for a partner. Since childhood, he has taken great pleasure in drawing, sketching and rendering from nature and is a keen amateur realist artist and photographer. David’s photographs complement his partner’s poetry.