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Creative & non-fiction writing

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'Dresses, heavy with water' - short memoir, Westerly online, 2023.

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'The Wardrobe' - visual memoir, Baby Teeth Journal, 2022.

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'Tadpoles' - poem, painted on the streets of Adelaide as part of Raining Poetry in Adelaide, 2022.

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'Compulsory heterosexuality and the healing power of queer historical fiction' - personal essay, Archer Magazine online, 2022.

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'Nostos' - short story, Voiceworks, 2022

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'Dead Meat' - short story, Stringybark Stories anthology The Mirror, 2021

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'Storm Water' - poem, Speakeasy Flinders Zine vol. 9, 2018

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‘The First Christmas Without Mum' - essay, Empire Times, 2017

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Academic work

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'Affective ambush: An Autotheoretical Approach to Understanding Emotions as Useful to the Research Process' - co-authored journal article, Life Writing, 2024.

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'Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference' - journal article, Life Writing, 2024.

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'The Same Self/ie: Blurring Academic, Creative, and Personal Identity through the Taking and Sharing of Self-Portraits' - chapter in an edited collection, Career Narratives of Academic Womanhood, 2023.

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'“Show and Tell”: The Risks and Rewards of Personal-Object-Based Learning' - journal article, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2023

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'Reading Objects, Watching YouTube, Writing Biography, and Teaching Life Writing: Student Engagement When Learning Online During Covid-19' - co-authored journal article, Life Writing, 2022

 

General audience

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''Toxic positivity' is out: welcome to the new world of indulgent pettiness' - article, The Conversation, 2024.

 

''The hardest and most beautiful conversation I’ve ever had': how end-of-life storytelling on TikTok helps us process death' - co-authored article with Edith Hill, The Conversation, 2023.

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'Friday essay: 1 in 25 Australians have been estranged from their families. True stories about this can make people feel less alone' - article, The Conversation, 2022.

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'How to write about broken trust in a memoir? Janine Mikosza’s Homesickness maps trauma in bold new ways' - review, The Conversation, 2022

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'Brittany Higgins’ memoir will join a powerful Australian collection reclaiming women’s stories of trauma. Here are four.' - article, The Conversation, 2021

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'Book Review: The Morbids' - review, InDaily, 2021

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2024 Writer in Residence at The Mill in partnership with CityMag

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Shortlisted for the Kat Muscat Fellowship, 2024


Island View Writers House Emerging Writer Residency, 2023.

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Short memoir 'Dresses, heavy with water' Highly Commended, AAWP/Westerly Magazine Life Writing Prize, 2022

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Casual Academic Teaching Award, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, 2021

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Three Minute Thesis heat one winner & university finalist, Flinders University, 2021

 

Short story ‘Nostos’ Highly Commended, Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, 2021

 

Best creative/hybrid postgraduate paper, Australasian Association of Writing Programs ‘Rising Tides’, 2020

 

Short story ‘Dead Meat’ First Place Fiction Prize, Empire Times Creative Competition, 2018

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES

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