May
27
Judging the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
This year I’ve had the privilege of judging both the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the 2020 Jan Medlicott …
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Sep
25
CLNZ 2018 Writers Award
I’m delighted to say I’ve been named as the recipient of the 2018 CLNZ Writers Award for my current project, …
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31
Mountain Weather
2015. I’m in New Zealand, working on my second book Eight Passes. It’s about New Zealand’s Southern Alps, told through …
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20
Festival Season 2014
ARMS RACE LAUNCH / MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL CLOSING PARTY / THIRD ANNUAL PAN MELBOURNE INTERPRETIVE DANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Help me launch Arms …
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19
The tattooed octopus: notes on the cover of Arms Race
A few years ago, on a launch heading to a small island off New Zealand’s south coast, I thought I …
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19
Octopuses, oilslicks and earthquakes
The last six or eight months have been all about writing. A few recent highlights from 2012:
GREW PRIZE
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19
Nomadology
“Here we go, kids. Breathe in a lungful of petrol fumes and take flight, high on fossil fuels. Scatter now, …
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18
Death of the author; birth of the plagiarist
This is a project I created in 2003 for my Honours degree in Literary Studies. In researching a very, very …
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18
Stonevoice
Stonevoice consists of nine A3 typographic prints of a poem cycle exploring the relationship between place, history and trauma. The …
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