Short fiction, journalism & other writing
Back from the dread: On dreams and fairy tales, Good Weekend magazine, November 3 2012
The Aunt's Story: The Hoopla, 3 July 2012
The whole story: Charlotte on offal - Good Weekend magazine, Feb 18 2012
For the love of oysters: On how Charlotte came to love them, SBS Feast magazine, March 2012
Nanoparticles, published in 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2011 (fiction)
The Sitting Act: On the bond between portrait painter and subject, The Monthly Dec 2011-Jan 2012
The likeability problem: Extended version of The Hoopla post, Newswrite Magazine Dec 2011
The Write Tools #32: On the usefulness of close observation. Darkly Wise, Rudely Great blog
Hate the character, love the book? On 'likeability' in fiction, The Hoopla 5 October 2011
This dog is not a human being...(right?): Good Weekend essay on anthropomorphism, 24 Oct 2011
Give a Little Bit; first published Good Weekend magazine, Dec 4 2010
The End Six writers talk about finishing a book, Australian Author magazine, December 2010.
The Cricket Palace, published in Brothers & Sisters, 2009 (fiction)
Forgive Me, Forgive Me: The Ethics of Using Other People's Lives in Fiction; Meanjin Quarterly, Summer 2009
Profile Lizzie Farey, artist Craft Arts International, March 2008
Reproduced by permission - visit Craft Arts International website here
Party Piece First published Sydney Morning Herald, January 2006
Honeymoon First published Best Australian Stories, 2005 (fiction)
Do you, Jane, take this man's name? Sydney Morning Herald, July 27 2002
Cooking to impress First published Gourmet Traveller, 2004
Nature writing in Australia First published Good Reading, 2004
Best book you've never read First published Sydney Morning Herald, May 2005
A year of reading pleasurably The Age, December 2005
Speeches
Seven Enviable Lines - a panel discussion at the Emerging Writers' Festival Roadshow, November 2012
On reading - delivered at Adelaide Writers' Week, 2010
Obsessive, compulsive, instinctive & strange: Why writing a novel is like falling in love Speech to National Library of Australia conference, September 2006
Speech to Arts Faculty graduates, Charles Sturt University, 2005
