I am beyond excited to announce that I’ve been awarded the inaugural Freefall Writing Freedom to Write Scholarship. The Scholarship supports fledgling writers by providing access to a week-long immersive and generative writing workshop, and in early October I’ll be attending the Daylesford Writing Retreat to start a new project and learn more about Freefall
New Article Published by Writers Bloc
I’ve got a new piece published online by Writers Bloc this week, part of their ‘Building Blocs’ series that gives advice and info to emerging writers. The piece is called “How To Support Your Writer Friend” (alternate title: “So Your Friend Has Decided to Ruin Their Life” ?) and is basically about all the awesome
New Article Published by POPSUGAR
Okay… this is a big one. The final episode of Adventure Time (my favourite cartoon) aired this week, and as you can imagine I had a lot to say. Thank you to POPSUGAR for publishing my piece “5 Ways Adventure Time Made the World a Better Place.” You can read the piece over on POPSUGAR
New Article Published by Going Down Swinging
Last week I had another #careermilestone as a piece I wrote was published online by Going Down Swinging. The text that I’ve taken from their website and posted around social media reads “Going Down Swinging is one of Australia’s longest-running and most respected literary journals,” which I think explains just how excited I am to
Two New Articles Published in Orenda Magazine
Orenda Magazine Issue #6 is out now & inside you’ll find not one but TWO articles written by me! This is also the fourth time my writing has appeared in print now, so pretty exciting ??????? Sophia & the team kindly published my rambling about The Adventures of Tintin and Bob’s Burgers, the latter of
Long Weekend Editing
Melbourne recently had the Queens Birthday public holiday on Monday 11 June, and for once I made good use of my day off. I spent the long weekend house sitting and working on my novel Rare Birds, getting stuck into a hardcopy manuscript with a red pen (and plenty of cute bird-themed tabs): It was
Forthcoming Pieces in Going Down Swinging & Orenda Magazine
Just a quick update to let you know of some things I’ve been working on recently, and some places I’ll be published in the coming months. Unless you obsessively refresh the ‘Writing’ page of my website (so, unless you are me) you won’t have noticed I’ve got two pieces set for publication soon. Both are
15% off Watching Cartoons with Boys on Lulu.com
One of the joys of self-publishing a book is that the more times you read it, the more errors you spot… I don’t take this personally! Without the polish of a professional publisher, sometimes it just happens. Also, when you’re a perfectionist like I am, these ‘errors’ can just be as simple as a comma
New Article Published by Farrago Magazine
After a very successful launch last night at The University of Melbourne’s new student bar ‘The Ida,’ Farrago Magazine‘s first issue for 2018 has been published! Jesse and the team kindly published an article of mine titled “Cartoons and Heartache.” It includes an excerpt from my book Watching Cartoons with Boys as well as musings
Ramona Magazine review Watching Cartoons with Boys
Ramona Magazine is an empowering, inspiring, global community of feminist creatives in the form of an online mag for teens. Today, I’m thrilled that they’ve published a review of my book (penned by the excellent Alex Creece). An excerpt from this review is below: “I scrawled a word in my notebook as I barely finished