Category: writing

  • storm stories

    Next week there’s another ‘Spineless Wonders presents…’ event in Adelaide. I love being a part of this gig – local actors read short stories by Australian authors while we sit back and sample the Wheaty’s featured brews. Can’t think of anything wrong with that. Come early – it was standing room only last time. Two…

  • On Books and Gender

    This year, I’m taking the AWW challenge to read books by Australian women writers. I’ve read ten without reviewing any, and wanted to set down some thoughts – not as a review, but as a sort of pre-review purge and audit of the status of women, at least in my reading list. It’s turned out…

  • March fiction podcast: Moth

    The edits are finished for The Rest is Weight and I’m just about to get proofs and covers sorted out. Will post the cover here when it is ready. I am thrilled to be getting another book out so soon, partly because it’s helping me avoid suffering in the form of the second draft of…