Writing Credits

 Education & qualifications

• MA Creative Writing, Victoria University’s Institute of Modern Letters
• BA Writing for Stage, Unitec School of Performing & Screen Arts

 Awards & honours

• Mindfood Magazine Short Story Winner, 2019
• The Sargeson Prize, highly commended, 2019
• New Zealand Society of Authors complete manuscript assessment awardee, 2019
• Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition: Third place winner, 2018 
• Awarded Creative Hub writer in residence, 2018
• Paperwork a 'top pick' in the North and South flash fiction competition, 2018
• 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
• Auckland Theatre Company commission, 2004
• Young and Hungry theatre commission, 2003
• Wellington Fringe Festival ‘best theatre’ award, 2002 and 2001
• Playmarket Young Playwright Award winner, 2000 and 2001

 
Books

• Pet (stories), Mary Egan Publishing, 2020
  
  

Short stories

• Sea Legend, Middle Distance (Victoria University Press), 2021
  
• Physical Education, takahē Magazine (Issue 101), 2021
• Luna's Crew, Best of Auckland, Writers' Cafe Press, 2020
• The Pack, Newsroom, 2020
• Fool's Gold, Cease Cows, US, 2020
• The Hoarder, Fresh Ink, Cloud Ink Press, 2019
• Good Dog, The Valley Review, Massachusetts (Vol 13, Issue 3), 2019
• Continuation of the Species, The Valley Review, Massachusetts (Vol 13, Issue 3), 2019
• Flotsam and Jetsam, Mindfood Magazine, August 2019
• Heterochromia, takahē Magazine (Issue 95), 2019
• Emotional Support Animal, Sunday Star-Times, 2018
• Speaking in Tongues, Headland (Issue 14), 2018 
• Frangipani, Headland (Issue 2), 2015
• Let’s Have Some Fun, Hue and Cry, 2014
• The Honeymooners, Aerodrome, 2014

Flash fiction

• Women’s Studies, Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press), 2018
• Paperwork, North and South, 2018

• Ice Age, Potroast, 2014

Children’s books

• Bruce Goes Outside, Mary Egan Publishing, 2020
• Bruce Finds A Home, Mary Egan Publishing, 2018

 
Film & TV

• Misconceptions web series, NZ Herald, 2020

Podcasts

• Pet, Otago Access Radio, 2020

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Theatre

• Indiscretions (one act play), published in No. 8 Wire, Playmarket, 2011
• ​The Language of Angels, Silo Theatre, 2004 (Auckland Theatre Company commission)
• For Georgie, Silo Theatre and Bats Theatre, 2003
• Indiscretions, Silo Theatre, Bats Theatre and Maidment Studio, 2002
• Little Death, Silo Theatre and Bats Theatre, 2001
• Painted Lips, Drama Christie Studio, 2001

 
Zines

• Naughty Pussy, 2015
• The Lucky Numbers, 2015
• Over the Edge, 2014, (collection of flash fiction)
• Khartoum Place, 2014

Articles

• Local Legends: The pubs of Port Chalmers, Down In Edin, December 2019
• The Best Book in the World, Otago Daily Times, May 2019
• 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​
• K'Rd is dead... Long Live K'Rd, Elsewhere.co.nz, October 2015
• Intellectual man drought foils search for Mr Right, Herald on Sunday, May 2015

Artist residencies

• Eramboo Artist Environment, Sydney, July 2019 
• New Zealand Pacific Studio, Mt Bruce, August 2015

 
Festival appearances

• Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival, 2021
• Wild Imaginings Children's Writers and Illustrators Hui, 2019
• Litcrawl, 2018

Guest reading / speaking

• Readaloud kindergarten tour (Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature), 2021
• Little Landers Literature tour (Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature), 2018, 2019, 2020
• Guest speaker for the School Library Association of New Zealand, 2020
• Guest reader at Te Hau Kāika, 2019
• Guest reader at National Flash Fiction Day, 2019
• Guest writer / workshop tutor at Sinclair Wetlands 'Plant and Art' 2019
• Guest speaker at Otago Polytechnic / Trade Aid International Women's Day 2019
• Crowdfunding talk, Port Chalmers Library, 2018
• Crowdfunding talk, Otago Polytechnic, 2018 
• Guest reader at the Potroast launch, Auckland Zinefest 2015

 
Teaching

• Mentor, Hagley Writers' Institute, 2021
• Workshops at St Hilda's Collegiate School, 2019 and 2020
• Workshops at Port Chalmers School, 2018 and 2019

Exhibitions

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

 
Professional development 

• Thirty Week Fiction Course, The Creative Hub
• Write a Novel Course, Majella Cullinane 

 
Memberships

• New Zealand Society of Authors
• Storylines