Writing
I’ve worked with words all of my working life, but mostly in very prosaic and practical ways. I’m now drawing on my lifelong love of stories and novels to write my own short stories, creative non-fiction and now a PhD in Environmental Humanities, combining environmental history and creative writing.
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2024 ‘‘I Feel Like I’m Part of the Ocean’: the inter-connected world of the ocean swimmer,’  Westerley: Oceans IssueÂ
2024 ‘Thriving in a World of Plant: the Possibilities of Ecobiography’ Environmental History Now
2024 ‘Ghost Plants: the Possibilities of Botanical Ecobiography,’ Life WritingÂ
2021 ‘Greens Pool: In Praise of Wild Swimming’, Westerly: Great Southern Special IssueÂ
2021 ‘Divergence’, Shortlisted in 2021 Newcastle Short Story Award, publication in anthology upcoming.
2020 ‘In Praise of Wild Swimming’ First Prize and ‘Courage’ Second Prize in Memoir Category, 2020 Eastwood Hills Literary Competition
2019 ‘Deviation’, Second prize in KSP Short Fiction Awards.
2019 ‘Balance Due’, published in Underground Zine, Issue 28Â
2018 ‘Just One Night,’ Shortlisted in 2018 Newcastle Short Story Award, publication in anthology.
2018 ‘On the Trail of a Ghost.’ Landscapes. http://ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes/vol8/iss1/11
2017 ‘Just One Night,’ Shortlisted in 2017 Margot Manchester Memorial Short Story Award, Society of Women Writers, Tasmania
2017 ‘Greens Pool’, Highly Commended in 2017 Trudy Graham/Julie Lewis Literary Award for Prose
2017 ‘An Apprenticeship,’ Second place in the Memoir Category, 2017 Eastwood Hills Literary CompetitionÂ
2016 ‘Baby Booms and Fallow Wombs: The False History of the Childfree’. Overland, 29 August 2016 https://overland.org.au/2016/08/baby-booms-and-fallow-wombs-the-false-history-of-child-free/
‘The Plausibility Gap in the Denial of Climate Science’.  5 July 2011, ABC Drum Online http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-01/hodgsonclimate/2778378
Latest Writing Posts
KSP Fellowship
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...
Please can we reframe the debate on climate science?
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...
The plausibility gap in the denial of climate change science
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. ~ Â ~ Â ~ For climate change 'sceptics', denialists, contrarians or what Barry Jones recently called 'confusionists' to...