The Case for The Commandant
The best Australian historical fiction you've never read. My first piece for The Conversation. .
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Sub Standard - Australia's Future Submarine
My article for the August issue of The Monthly on the complex policy and urgent timing of the decisions on Australia's Future Submarines. Print edition in newsagents from August 1. HMAS Farncomb (not…
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The Last Space Waltz?
My essay on the relationship between the fantasy of human space exploration - 2001 - and the reality - NASA - and whether humans will ever leave geostationary orbit again, is published in Overland,…
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Our Navy Blues: Cover of The Monthly April 2014
So proud to see this story as The Monthly's cover.
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Hostile Takeover published by Spineless Wonders
My Carmel Bird Award longlisted story Hostile Takeover has just been published as an esingle by Spineless Wonders as part of the Amanda Lohrey Selects Series. Here's the blurb: 'Z works within…
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Putting Australia on the Map - my latest article for The Monthly
When I moved to Australia from Canada as a child, I was struck by the shape of my new home. In Canada I had to draw maps of my native land in exacting detail. This skill atrophied at my Sydney…
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Why does contemporary fiction look more and more like science fiction? Author Talk Katoomba Library February 22
I will be giving an author talk at Katoomba Library at 2pm, Saturday 22 February, followed by free afternoon tea and book signings. The new Katoomba Library at the Cultural Centre is gorgeous, with…
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So 2014 seems to be shaping up well - residency in upstate New York!
I'm so excited by this early Christmas present. This morning I was notified I've been selected for a month's residency at Writers' Omi at Ledig House as part of their 2014 program. This is very…
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Fairfax press review of Griffith REVIEW 42: Once Upon a Time in Oz
'Everyone should therefore seek out the latest issue (42) of the Griffith Review, Once Upon A Time In Oz.... This latest issue of the Griffith Review confirms its position as Australia's most…
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Griffith Review - Sydney Launch - At the launch with Margo Lanagan, Kate Forsyth and painter Jane Bennett.
