Winner of first prize in the AlburyCity Short Story Award 2023, Shortlisted for the AAWP/UWRF Emerging Writers Prize 2023. A short story about the cost of oppressed dreams and the price women have paid through the ages.
PUBLISHED IN ACE ANTHOLOGY IV (ed. Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall and Deb Wain) - RECENT WORK PRESS, NOVEMBER 2023
A fictional short story. It starts with a middle-aged woman grappling with the fallout of the pandemic and ends up in uncanny valley.
PUBLISHED IN PERIL MAGAZINE, EDITION 47 - NO COMPASS, AUGUST 2022
The pressure to chase clout and attention online is leading to adverse impacts on our ability to build the communities and connections we crave. It’s called brandification and audience capture. Let’s talk about it.
PUBLISHED IN THE AGE, 26 JULY 2023
Corporations have worked hard to make themselves the most powerful political players in the land. They have a responsibility to not only help us create a more equitable world, but to do it properly.
PUBLISHED IN THE AGE, 28 JUNE 2023
This birthday, rather than going gently into that good night, I would like to do one wonderful thing for myself for every year I’ve been alive.
PUBLISHED ON SBS VOICES, 26 APRIL 2023
Wages are low, work insecure and funding has been gutted. Amid a cost-of-living crisis and a pandemic, are we about to lose a swathe of artists to obscurity? How Australian culture locked out the working class.
PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA, 16 MAY 2022
Without realising it, that lonely decade became a slow reclamation. Free of obligation to anyone but myself. My time as a single woman was crucial to discovering who I really am.
PUBLISHED IN SBS VOICES, APRIL 2021
Mum tells me of how she flew to Melbourne from Adelaide just to see me for five minutes before I flew away. All these years later, I still grapple with what it means for my sense of home and identity.
PUBLISHED IN SBS VOICES, 20 OCTOBER 2020
I’m querying my book, shopping around a short story, plotting the next book, and exploring more short story ideas all the while embracing the fact that I’ll always wear multiple hats and that’s not just okay, that’s GOOD. It’s been a TIME but it’s been an expansive one.
Whether time exists or not, the very question opens up creative possibilities that are expansive. Its the uncertainty itself that is exciting, inviting us to step into new realities at the edge of our vision.
Society fears the Crone and society teaches us to fear the passage of time. But both bring lessons of power and grace if we can but invite them in. This year, I’m holding my Croning and I couldn’t be more overjoyed.
In the endless quest for fiction above politics, have some people lost sight of what makes us human? An exploration of whether apolitical fiction is desirable, and most importantly of all, whether it is even possible.
Speculative fiction has the power to change the world. It allows us to explore new possibilities, to test drive different realities and to even map out a pathway beyond dystopia. That’s why it’s not only inherently political, but also one of the most popular and best genres in fiction.
In Anaximander’s concept of 'the boundless' we have an explanation for the origins of the world that is both impersonal and infinite. Unsurprisingly it has inspired writers and poets through the ages, from Ursula Le Guin to TS Elliot and Isabel Allende. There’s grist for the speculative mind.
The waterways of Greek mythology hold special significance. They're not just physical paths, but also symbolic of the fears and dreams of the human soul. Got a coin for the ferryman? Cross over and explore the other side of death.
Visual art can inspire the literary and nowhere does the aesthetic of a genre cross over more than in steampunk. Writing prompts and art to get your creative juices flowing.
