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

• Mindfood Magazine 2019 Short Story Winner
• 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 
• 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

• Luna's Crew, Best of Auckland, 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 Finds A Home, Mary Egan Publishing, 2018

 
Film & TV

• Misconceptions, NZ Herald, 2020

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

• 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
• 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

• Eramboo Artist Environment, Sydney, July 2019 
• Awarded Creative Hub writer in residence at Earthskin Retreat, Muriwai, September 2018
• New Zealand Pacific Studio, Mt Bruce, August 2015

 
Speaking engagements, tutoring and workshops

• Guest reader at Te Hau Kāika, 2019
• Guest presenter at Wild Imaginings Children's Writers and Illustrators Hui, 2019
• Guest reader at National Flash Fiction Day, 2019
• As part of the Little Landers Literature tour (Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature) I spoke at six primary schools and created stories with the children, 2019
• Workshop at St Hilda's Collegiate School, 2019
• Guest writer / workshop tutor at Sinclair Wetlands 'Plant and Art' 2019
• Guest speaker at Otago Polytechnic / Trade Aid International Women's Day 2019
• 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 created stories with the ​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 and libraries, 2017 – 2019
• 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