News

2024

Working on finishing the colourslides memoir and 'Healing Powers', a novel.

2023

Working on a memoir of her first twenty years, 1950 - 1970  based on thousands of colour slides taken by her father. 

2022

Worked on the novel 'Healing Powers,' about a GP>

2021

Entered the  Helen Anne Bell Poetry Awards for a first published collection by a woman.

2020

'Healing Powers'  continued.

Began a new essay, 'Pain in a time of Covid',  about having shingles in the winter.

2019 

'Conversion,'  an essay published in  St Mark's Review,    November 2019

 'A genetic Unitarian,'   an essay  published in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia,  no 47.

'Joan Sutherland,'  a piece published in Meanjin,   Summer.

'Home away from home: the curious case of diplomats,'  an essay  published in the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

2018

Essay on #metoo  'Put your hand in  my pocket'  sent off to find a home.

A new novel, 'Healing Powers'  underway.

2017

Writing a new novel.

And a new essay,  ' A genetic Unitarian' .

2016

'Wire, and again wire,' new essay accepted by Antipodes for 2017.

'Feeling exile'  essay, in Island,  December 2016. 

New suite of four poems about Port Willunga, 3 September 2016 in The Weekend Australian.

2015

Finishing a new essay.  Finishing a novel.  Writing poetry.

2011 

Monologue for 'When the dreams'

Monologue for a short experimental film by Felix Barbalet, 'When the dreams' which was shortlisted and publicly screened in March 2011 as part of the Lights! Canberra! Action! festival.