Writing Credits

 Education & qualifications

• MA Creative Writing, Victoria University’s Institute of Modern Letters
• BA Writing/Directing for Stage and Screen, Unitec School of Performing & Screen Arts
• Thirty Week Fiction Course, The Creative Hub

 
 Awards & honours

• Paperwork a 'top pick' in the North and South flash fiction competition, 2018
• 2015 Headland Award for the short story Frangipani, 2015
• NZ Writers’ College Short Story Competition, Flotsam and Jetsam received 'highest honours', 2015
• Best of the Fest, Auckland Zinefest 2015 
• NZ Writers’ College Short Story Competition, The Trapeze Artist shortlisted, 2014

 
Short stories

• Speaking in Tongues, Headland (Issue 14), December 2018 
• Frangipani, Headland (Issue 2), April 2015
• Let’s Have Some Fun, Hue and Cry, June 2014
• The Honeymooners, Aerodrome, February 2014

Flash fiction

• Women’s Studies, Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand, August 2018
• Paperwork, North and South, February 2018

• Ice Age, Potroast, July 2014

Children’s books

• Bruce Finds A Home (illustrated children's book), February 2018

 
Theatre

• Indiscretions (one act play), published in No. 8 Wire, Playmarket, 2011
• I have had several plays professionally produced in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch
• I have won several awards for my plays, including Wellington Fringe Festival and Playmarket awards

 
Articles

• Bereavement leave an overdue change, The Spinoff, August 2018
• The Loneliness of Miscarriage, The Spinoff, April 2018
• When Jacindababymania Hurts, published on The Spinoff and in The New Zealand Herald, February 2018
• Will landlords hike rents if Labour wins? The Spinoff, September 2017
• The latest threat to the economy, according to Winston: vegetarian sausages, The Spinoff, February 2017
• Cry Me a River: The Ministry of Justice Scandal isn't Justified, The Spinoff, February 2017
• A Little Life (part three), The Spinoff, January 2017
• Where There's Life (part two), The Spinoff, January 2017
• Accidentally on Purpose (part one), The Spinoff, January 2017 
• The Prime of Miss Jean Batten, Glory Days, September 2016
• Intellectual man drought foils search for Mr Right, Herald on Sunday, May 2015

 
Guest blog posts

• The cat that got the cream: How to crowdfund a book about your pet, The 13th Floor, June 2017
• How to run a successful crowdfunding campaign, Elsewhere.co.nz, June 2017
• Bruce the Cat blog named in the top 100 cat blogs of 2016
• K'Rd is dead... Long Live K'Rd, Elsewhere.co.nz, October 2015
• What's Involved in Taking a Creative Writing Course, Elsewhere.co.nz, May 2015

 
Zines

• Naughty Pussy, 2015, available at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin libraries
• The Lucky Numbers, 2015, available at libraries
• Over the Edge, 2014, (collection of flash fiction), available at libraries
• Khartoum Place, 2014, available at libraries 

 
Artist residencies

• Awarded Creative Hub writer in residence at Earthskin Retreat, Muriwai, September 2018
• New Zealand Pacific Studio, Mt Bruce, August 2015

 
Speaking engagements

• Guest writer / speaker at Litcrawl 2018 (Best stories: Headland session), 2018
• As part of the Little Landers Literature tour (Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature) I spoke at six primary schools and held workshops with children, 2018
• I have given talks about crowdfunding and self-publishing at libraries and education institutes, 2017 – 2018
• I have read Bruce Finds A Home and run writing workshops at primary schools, 2017 – 2018
• Guest reader at the Potroast launch, Auckland Zinefest 2015

 
Exhibitions

• Art is a Living Thing exhibition contributor, 2016 – 2017
• Rock n roll band poster exhibition contributor

 
Memberships

• New Zealand Society of Authors
• Storylines