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Last Best Chance is available now! The launch will take place on 17 May at Manning Library alongside Deborah Pike’s brilliant new novel, The Players, as part of the Fremantle Press Great Big Book Club.
Join me to discuss my first novel, The Glass House, with a book club at KSP Writers’ Centre in Greenmount on 1 June. Afternoon tea and a tour of the centre will also be provided.
I will be in conversation with author Tess Woods at the Peter Cowan Writers Centre as part of Love to Read Local Week! Join us for an in-depth discussion of Last Best Chance from 11am-12pm on Sunday 9 June.
Come to my Crafting Short Stories workshop at Armadale Library on Friday 9 August, 10am-1pm. Bookings are free!
2024
I will be part of two events at the Perth Festival Writers Weekend! On Thursday, 23 Feb, I’ll be talking genre fiction as part of The Business of Being a Writer at the Fremantle Town Hall from 6pm.
Then, on Sunday 26 Feb, I’m moderating ‘On the Fringes’ with Aussie writers Jennifer Down (Bodies of Light), Hayley Scrivenor (Dirt Town) and Holden Sheppard (The Brink) at Fremantle Arts Centre at 2:30pm.
2023
Fremantle Press kindly asked me to guest-host some of their podcasts! I’ve had amazing chats with David Allan-Petale (Locust Summer), Maria Papas (Skimming Stones), Karen Herbert (The River Mouth and The Castaways of Harewood Hall), and David Whish-Wilson (The Sawdust House, plus many other novels).
I will be at the Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival in Geraldton from 29 Sep-2 Oct, giving a workshop and hosting a Q&A with Holden Sheppard and Melody Dia
2022
2021
Interview with Spineless Wonders for Female(s and) Dogs
‘Glassmaking’ chosen for the Big Issue Fiction Edition
Shortlisted for the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for Female(s and) Dogs
2020
2019
Shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize 2019
Commended in the Newcastle Short Story Award 2019 for ‘Manhandled’
EARLIER
Shortlisted for the Neilma Sidney Short Story Award 2017 for ‘Amusements’