Writing Archives - Nicole Hodgson

Swimming a novel to Rottnest

Nicole — Tue, 15 May 2018 12:33:25 +0000

I recently listened to an inspiring interview with Kimberley Chambers, marathon ocean swimmer extraordinaire, only the sixth person ever to complete the Ocean’s Seven set of insane marathon swims. Closer to home, my swimming buddy Steve Junk has completed six of the swims and hopes to complete the set with his final swim in August, […]

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On the Trail of a Ghost

Nicole — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 23:57:09 +0000

I wrote an essay about researching the life of Sarah Brooks and the insights from being out in the disarming landscape east of Esperance. It is now published in the Landscapes journal. ~ I am on the trail of a ghost, the ghost of Miss Sarah Brooks, who died almost one hundred years ago. I […]

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Starting out late

Nicole — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 03:20:40 +0000

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Two weeks at KSP Writers Centre

Nicole — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 19:10:15 +0000

The two weeks I spent at KSP Writers’ Centre would have to be the most intensely productive of my short writing life. From the moment I stepped into Aldridge cabin on the Monday afternoon, unpacked all my books and opened my laptop, I was entirely focused on turning the first full draft of my novel […]

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Israelite Bay

Nicole — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:29:56 +0000

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An Apprenticeship

Nicole — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 05:59:32 +0000

This piece about my uncle Sean won second prize in the Memoir section at the Eastwood/Hills Literary Competition for 2017. ~ This can’t have been the first time I met Mr Sean O’Rourke, but it is the first I remember clearly. I was 9 years old and my aunty Steph arrived for a holiday with […]

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KSP Fellowship

Nicole — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:44:37 +0000

I’m thrilled, shocked and amazed all at once to have been one of the lucky twelve chosen for a fellowship at the Katharine Susannah Pritchard Writers Centre in 2017. The application required choosing just 1000 words from the manuscript, together with a synopsis and outline of your writing background and work on the manuscript. With […]

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Please can we reframe the debate on climate science?

Nicole — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 13:31:59 +0000

I wrote this quite ranty piece at a time when Senator Malcolm Roberts was receiving a stupid amount of media attention for his absurd climate change conspiracies. I can feel my blood pressure rise and my face redden just writing this. I did send it off somewhere to no avail …. so instead of working on […]

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The plausibility gap in the denial of climate change science

Nicole — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 06:30:39 +0000

I had this piece published in the Drum online. This part of the ABC website has been defunded so I’ve copied the piece here in case it disappears. ~ ~ ~ For climate change ‘sceptics’, denialists, contrarians or what Barry Jones recently called ‘confusionists’ to be right about the science of climate change, […]

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A piece in Overland Literary Journal

Nicole — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:21:36 +0000

I am really delighted to have a piece published in the Overland Literary Journal. I gave them this piece with an extremely lame title ‘Are the child free just a late modern phenomenon’ and they come up with ‘Baby booms and fallow wombs: the false history of child free.’ How good is that title? I […]

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