I'm a Melbourne-based writer and performance poet and I am deeply, deeply nerdy. I love apostrophes with a passion that, yes, does border on weirdness, and I just can't see how that isn't a good thing.
For all of the appallingly detailed nitpicks about my writing career since 2000, you can check my lists:
short stories
- pendulum 2008
- Slippery When Wet
- Page Seventeen
- The Best Australian Stories 2006
- Tarralla
- australianreader.com
- Bukker Tillibul
- Going Down Swinging
- Page Seventeen
- Woorilla
- Reid's Magazine
- Verandah
- pendulum
- That's Life! Fast Fiction
- A House Full of Mirrors
- Slippery When Wet
- Splatter
- Shorts
- tamba
- Holding Two Fingers in the Air
- The Mod_Piece
- Briefs
poetry
- Outshine twitterzine
- pendulum 2008
- autumn 2008 Moving Galleries
- Cordite
- Best Australian Poems 2005
- The Mozzie
- Woorilla
- Phaedra Magazine
prizes
- First prize, Chapter Book Category CYA Conference, Writing & Illustrating compeition 2008
- Commended in Eaglehawk Dahlia Festival Bush Poetry prize 2008
- Winner Tarralla short story competition 2006
- 3rd prize in the Alva Probert short story prize 2006
- Highly commended in the Alva Probert poetry prize 2006
- Winner of the Herb Thomas Memorial Trust Award 2006 for students pursuing careers in literature and/or the media at Chisholm Institute of TAFE.
- Highly Commended Woorilla National Poetry Prize 2006
- 2nd place Page Seventeen short story competition 2006
- Highly Commended FAW group anthology (DR poetry) award 2005
- 2nd place Eastern Regional Libraries short story local award 2005
- Winner Yakkerboo short story competition 2005
- Winner Woorilla local poet award 2005
- 2nd place Glen Eira My Brother Jack short story award 2004
- Winner Kingaroy Eisteddfod short story prize 2004
- Highly Commended FAW group anthology (LRW) award 2003
- Winner Eastern Regional Libraries short story local award 2003
- Winner Slippery When Wet short story competition 2003
- Finalist prize Slippery When Wet short story competition 2003
- Winner Red Room Word Slam 2003
- Highly Commended Aussie Kids short story competition section 2 (rhyming story) 2002
- Highly Commended Aussie Kids short story competition section 1 (children's story) 2002
- Commended Yellow Moon Nutshell poetry competition 2002
- Winner Alva Probert Memorial short story competition 2001
- Winner Kingaroy Eisteddfod short story competition 2001
- Highly Commended Yakkerboo short story competition 2001
- Finalist KT Publishing short story competition 2000
- Winner ebay Online Publishers (not the auction site) Open Theme Competition 2000
- 2nd place Cairn Terrier Club of Victoria short story competition 2000
- Winner WriteSpot Publishers International Autumn Short Story 2000
- 2 x commended in FACTS Awards, 1981
performance
- the Spinning Room, March 2009
- reading from a short story, Avid Reader bookshop, Brisbane, January 2009
- Writing workshop, Ringwood Library, August 2008
- Drouin Ficifolia Festival, February 2008
- Industry Overview, Chisholm TAFE Berwick and Frankston, February 2008
- Drouin Ficifolia Festival, February 2007
- speaking at Industry Overview classes for Chisholm TAFE, February 2007
- Visiting writer to Gembrook Primary School, August 2006
- Poets' Breakfast, Emerald PAVE April 2006
- Wordworks at Warby April 2006
- The Word Tree, regular open mic attendee, irregular MC
- Wasteland poetry reading at Pivotal Gallery; poetic interpretation of Steve Warburton's artworks, part of the Overload Festival 2005
- Scots Harbour at Queen of Tarts with LRW, part of the Overload Festival 2005
- Episode 82 of Red Lobster, featuring Montsalvat performance.
- Montsalvat Red Room 2004
- Ice Cream @ 3am second serve 2003
- 3RRR, invited to read short story
- 3MDR a couple of times
- pendulum launch 2003
- MC of Shorts launch 2003
- Ice Cream @ 3am Secnes across the city, Frankston Arts Festival 2003
- Montsalvat Red Room 2002
books
- Minding Foo-Foo Children's reader, series 1 Zig-Zags from Oxford University Press 2006
- Thylacine Dreaming Children's reader from Thomson Nelson (Cengage) 2005
articles
- Pirates article for Comet school Magazine 2006
- Under the Moon poetry collection Poets of the Dandenongs series
- Skeletons article for Explore school magazine 2004
- Comparative time article for Comet school magazine 2003
- Christmas article for Australian family circle magazine 2002
scripts
- Waiting for Rain accepted for performance as Wildcard entry in Sydney Short and Sweet
- 2 person play Waiting for Rain shortlisted in 2007 Short and Sweet competition – Sydney
- 2 person play Waiting for Rain shortlisted in 2007 Short and Sweet competition – Melbourne
editing
- Under the Moon poetry collection
- co-editor Wasteland anthology 2005
- co-editor pendulum magazine 2005
- co-editor Scots Harbour anthology 2004
- assistant proof reader Going Down Swinging 2004
- co-editor Shorts anthology
judging
