Writing
I closed my eyes and floated
Edited extract from the opening of Where We Swim published in The Guardian
Pods
Extract from the Western Australian section of Where We Swim published in The Sydney Review of Books.
Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World
Essay on Lithub. Reflections on Where We Swim, by also new books by Nina Mingya Powles and Nic Low.
On the Amazon
Extract from Where We Swim published in Newsroom (2021)
Days Bay
Extract from Where We Swim published as monthly Featured Writer #101 in The Ninth Letter (US) (2021)
A Shift in Vision
Reflection on new climate change writing published in The Spinoff under the title, ‘The climate crisis is seeping in books and making them really really weird’ (2021)
Shipwrecks of the Self
Essay, ‘In the meantime: shipwrecks of the self’, published in The Pantograph Punch (2016). A reflection on my ‘time at Princeton during 9/11, how the public and private selves combine, how the last decade and a half of world events make the future seem uncertain, but how we can begin again.’
A Small Town Event
Essay published in Sport (2015). Bounces off from Sydney-based New Zealand nonfiction writer Martin Edmond’s work, and his obsession with Ohakune, and takes me on a journey back to my own places of origin, including the farm in the Wairarapa where I grew up. A companion interview and article I wrote on Edmond were published in Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.
Wandering
Essay, ‘Wandering: An Essay on Histories, Genders, Mobilities, and Forms’. This one’s a bit more academic. Featured article in M/C Media/Culture Journal (2019). ‘In hindsight, it is clear that my own interest in literary wanderings came out of a bout of intense homesickness…’