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  • About
  • Books
  • News
  • Word
  • Fiction
    • Necropolis Drive
    • Up-skirt
    • Invisible moon
    • Désincarné / disembodied
  • Non-fiction
    • Friday essay: reclaiming artist-musician Anita Lane from the ‘despised’ label of muse
    • Guardian op-ed
    • Relatively sheltered
    • Read, listen, understand: why non-Indigenous Australians should read First Nations writing
    • The exiled child
  • Poetry
    • Precarious
    • Ant familias
    • Black-eared cuckoo
    • Dust storm
    • Writing a Dear John letter
    • Projection
    • Target
  • Contact

​Non Fiction

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Friday essay: reclaiming artist-musician Anita Lane from the ‘despised’ label of muse
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A feature essay about an elusive, enigmatic subcultural artist-muse.

​Published in The Conversation, September 22, 2022.
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The Guardian Op-ed
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'Patriarchy perpetrates trauma: it's time to face the fact'.
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The Guardian (opinion), 30 April, 2018.
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Relatively sheltered

A short article on being trapped in Sydney's housing bubble.

Published in The Neighbourhood Paper, June 11, 2017.
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Read, listen, understand: why non-Indigenous Australians should read First Nations writing

On encouraging non-Indigenous Australians to engage with First Nations narratives via reading. 

Published in The Conversation 'Arts + Culture', July 5, 2017.
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The exiled child

An essay about growing up with coercive control and domestic violence, and the long-haul of living with trauma.

Published in Griffith Review 15: Divided Nation, Feb 2007.

This essay was shortlisted for The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate, Victorian Premier’s Awards in 2007.

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