Stories of derring-do, Foreign Legion heroes; rescuing drfagons from evil schoolteachers and dragon-eating maidens (true) these were some of the things which  stirred up the imagination of an eight year old boyh in country NSW. Writing has always been in the forefront of writer/broadcaster, Al McCartan and it is an escape from reality.    "Keeps me sane," he told Authors' Den. Al used his creative talents in non-fiction writing and spent many yhears as a journalist with the Australian Governent in hometown Canberra and Sydney.   Away from the keyboard, Al is a music presenter on local (Bathurst) radio. His  writing loves are:  Humour, Fiction,  Bush Poetry; yes! a feelgood romance too

Glolden Cockatoo Bush Poetry Award
Charlee Marshall Award