Attending the Undergraduate Awards 2018 Global Summit
In November 2018, I had the immense privilege of being flown to Dublin, Ireland for an academic conference: the Undergraduate Awards 2018 Global Summit. This was because a piece of […]
NVQ Issue 3 + What Now
I was recently invited along to read at the launch of the third issue of Not Very Quiet, a Canberra-based women’s poetry journal. Not Very Quiet is a very welcoming, […]
Writing for Overland
The personal is political Image: still from (the fantastic) Janelle Monae’s ‘Make Me Feel’ I recently wrote quite a personal piece. It is one of my strongest pieces of non-fiction […]
At the arboretum
Something different In August, I worked on an outdoor photoshoot with a local photographer. This was a throwback to my undergraduate days, during which my unusual height, conventionally marketable skin […]
Undergraduate Awards 2017
Comparing Sylvia Plath and Dorothy Hewett * In 2017, I wrote an essay titled ‘Performativity, Confession, and the Female Writer, as illuminated by the lives and works of Sylvia […]
Creating Cicerone
Some friends and I started a literary journal. Here’s why… “Creating a literary journal is both exciting and nerve-wracking.” So begins the introductory editorial of Cicerone Journal, a literary journal […]
Speaking at Women Poets Anthology Moran/Edgar/Smith
Representing the youth at a poetry night * On the 21st of May, I participated in a poetry night hosted by local groups ‘Not Very Quiet’ and ‘That Poetry Thing’ […]
Difference and sameness – on individuality and language
. The beginning of 2018 has been a bit quiet on the writing front. Full-time employment doesn’t always leave much time or energy for writing on either side of the […]
What a time to be alive!
Though they say sexism’s over speaking up still isn’t free I’ve either 99 conundrums – or, the bitch, they’d say, is me… Reading at the Issue 2 launch of […]
Singing at the National Multicultural Festival
French singer Yves Montand. . . In February, I had the opportunity to be a part of Canberra’s ‘Mother Tongue’ showcase at the National Multicultural Festival. This meant that I […]