I am 10 years old, and I do not know how to use the washing machine. I am an incontinent housewife, always leaking my childhood all over this home.
excerpt from My home is not a house, unpublished manuscript
The skies are always blue and vast. Each day they are a contradiction, looking both over-saturated and empty, much like the inside of the toy chest I have at home.
Non-Fiction
A Grey Cat in a Sunset Town’ in Growing up In Country Australia. Black Inc. March 2022.
Book review: New Animal by Ella Baxter. Artshub. April 2021.
Review: ScoMo’s Sunday Service. Fringefeed. 28th January 2021.
Review: Friendly Feminism for the Mild Mannered. Fringefeed. 21st January 2021.
Review: Do I Look Like I Care? Fringefeed. 17th January 2021.
‘We encourage the audience to boo, jeer and heckle’: competitions that reward bad poetry. The Guardian Australia. 19th December, 2019.
“You Can Slam Poetry and Not Slam the Door on Slam Poetry.” The Conversation. 5th April 2015
I’m watching the Christmas lights flicker
excerpt From Our First Christmas Without You, published in brushstrokes IV.
like my holiday spirit.
Poetry
Child Witness Services. Brushstrokes. WA Poets Inc, 2023.
Our first Christmas without you. Grieve: Stories and Poems of Grief and Loss Volume 10. Hunter Writer’s Centre. 2022.
15 character poem. Skylines. Screened at the Perth Cultural Centre, 2018 and Screenwest Film Festival, 2019. [film].
Like soldiers. Recoil Ten: ten years of Perth Poetry Club. Perth: Mulla Mulla Press. 2019.
Flat wine and Tequila. Snap Journal. 2016.
Solar Power. In Capes, A & Linford, B. (Eds.), Poetry and Place Anthology. 2015.
Past Lover. Recoil 7. Perth, Western Australia: Mulla Mulla Press.
Ex-Boyfriend. Incisors and Grinders 2015: Idenity. Melbourne, Victoria: Monash Creative Writers.
Sixty Years. In Sharkey, M. (Ed.), Australian Poetry Journal 5(1).Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Poetry Ltd. 2015.
Mr Harwood. In, Lateef, A. (Ed.), WRIT Poetry Review 2. Perth, Western Australia. 2015.
6 months after my friend hangs himself. Poetry d’Amour 2014: Love Poems for Valentine’s Day. Perth, Western Australia: WA Poets Inc. 2014
Hinge. In Haskell, D. (Ed.), Poetry d’Amour 2013: Love Poems for Valentine’s Day. Perth, Western Australia: WA Poets Inc. 2013. (Highly Commended)
When I pull up at a red light, a man walks past holding out felt tip pens. ‘Just a buck,’ he says, ‘and they’re great quality.’
Excerpt From Sequins, Published In The Little Journal, Speculative Fiction Issue
There is change in the cup holder, but I don’t have time to give him any. The light changes and I pull onto the freeway on-ramp, waving an apology out the window.
Fiction
“Sequins”. the little journal issue 1. Writing WA. 2024.
“The Mohakatino River”. dotdotdash. Issue 7: Sacred.
“The Beggar”. Cottonmouth. Issue 19.
Selected work from Xpress Mag
SINGLE REVIEW: BEN CATELY Run gets 8.5/10. Xpress Magazine. April 2021.
SINGLE REVIEW: BOY GIRL Twitchin’ in your sleep gets 8.5/10 Xpress Magazine. April 2021.
INTERVIEW: TANAMI Surf rock from the sun. Xpress Magazine. March 2021.
WA MIXTAPE @ Government House Gardens gets 8/10. Xpress Magazine. March 2021.
C. NORRIS ft. LO Honey gets 8.5/10. Xpress Magazine. March 2021.
BAD WEATHER All I Know gets 7/10. Xpress Magazine. March 2021.
Selected work from Space Ship News (music journalist, 2010 – 2011)
“Interview: Grinspoon Play the One Movement Music Festival for Perth.” Space Ship News. October 2010.
“Interview: Karnivool.” Spaceship News. June 2010.
Selected work from Grok Magazine (freelance writer, 2009 – 2012)
“Cat Empire.” Grok Magazine. Ed. Sullivan, Tegan. Curtin Student Guild, Issue 3: June 2010.
“Angels of Northbridge.” Grok Magazine. Ed. Dennis, Jake. Curtin Student Guild. Issue 4: October 2009.
Academic publications
“Participatory culture and Michel Foucault: how we’re all to blame for ‘fake news’ and the loss of social consciousness.” The Digital Review. May 2020.
Metalepsis in Digital Poetry: Representing Australian Suburbia through the Convergence of the Verse Novel and Electronic Literature and Chamberlain Street. (Doctoral thesis). Available from Curtin eSpace. 2017.
“Poetry and Video Games.” The Postgraduate Bulletin. Ed. Mudhan, Keturah. Curtin University Postgraduate Student Association. December 2014.
Electronic Literature
