Aug 31, 20191 minQ&A with The Nerd DailyWell, this was fun -- an interview with The Nerd Daily to promote Meet Me at Lennon's, which officially births onto shelves in three days (September 3). As a...
Jul 11, 20192 minBrisbane Writers Festival appearanceJuly 11, 2019 I attended my first BWF in 2009, just after I moved back to Queensland from Sydney, where I'd been living for the last five years. I loved ever...
Oct 25, 20181 minWinner 2018 Qld Literary Awards Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland WriterOctober 26, 2018 Winner winner tofu dinner. I won't say this is beyond my wildest dreams because it's been my 'dream' to win this award for about five years,...
Sep 18, 20182 minEstelle Pinney Short Story CompetitionSeptember 12, 2018 So this is nice. Third place in the Estelle Pinney Short Story Competition. It's nice for a couple of reasons: Firstly, it's always, no ma...
Sep 4, 20181 min2018 VU Short Story Prize winner September 4, 2018 It would be remiss of me not to mention, also, that my very clever daughter Katerina Gibson is the winner of the 2018 VU/Overland Short Sto...
Aug 31, 20181 min2018 Queensland Literary Awards shortlist Glendower Emerging WriterAugust 31, 2018 There's nothing quite like a shortlist to get a much needed hit of writerly validation. And it doesn't get much better than making the shortl...
Dec 3, 20175 minBurial Rites: A Review Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Published by Picador 2013 (Review first published July, 2013) When a debut novel comes as lauded as Burial Rites – including a re...
Dec 3, 20173 minReunion: A Review Reunion by Andrea Goldsmith* Published by HarperCollins 2009 (Review first published March, 2010) Four friends – Ava, Jack, Helen and Connie, their bonds for...
Dec 3, 20173 minGet Well Soon!: A ReviewGet Well Soon! by Kristy Chambers Published UQP 2012 (Review first published February, 2013) When I had surgery last year to remove some fibroids from my ute...
Dec 3, 20172 minMurdering Stepmothers: A ReviewMurdering Stepmothers by Anna Haebich Published UWA Press, 2010 (Review first published July, 2010) Long before Disney cashed in on her notoriety, the sinist...
Nov 24, 20179 min75 Years since the the Battle of BrisbanePhoto credit: Courier-Mail November 27, 1942, p. 2 (Cartoonist: Ian Gill) November 24, 2017 The Battle of Brisbane may be a strange thing to 'commemorate', b...
Nov 24, 20171 min'I Loved Those Yanks' by Maureen MeadowsJanuary 26, 2016 My academic article about Maureen C. Meadows and her 1948 semi-fictionalised memoir I Loved those Yanks has been published in the latest edi...
Nov 24, 20171 minIn-conversation with Kate GrenvilleSeptember 2, 2015 Last night I had the privilege and pleasure of hosting an in conversation with Australian literary giant Kate Grenville –who just also happ...
Nov 23, 20177 minQTC's Brisbane: A Review April 2104 It wasn’t a full house, far from it, but QTC’s latest main stage production Brisbane—a commissioned work by local playwright Matthew Ryan—still op...
Nov 23, 20174 minQTC's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: A ReviewAugust 16, 2011 Among amateur theatre companies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is something of a staple – the Brisbane Arts Theatre, for example, staged two productio...
Nov 23, 20171 minCruise ControlMay, 2015 And that’s a wrap. Cruise Control pulled up anchor last night after 14 sold out performances at the Noosa Arts Theatre. It’s with much sadness that...
Nov 23, 20172 minDrowningJuly 2015 After finishing Cruise Control, I was given the opportunity to direct one of the three finalist-plays chosen for the Noosa Arts Theatre One-Act Pla...
Nov 23, 20173 minMuseOctober, 2017 Here's a review of Muse -- in which I played the put-upon-wife Gemma -- by Xanthe Coward (XS Entertainment)... Muse is the best new Australian ...
Nov 23, 20179 minLa Boite's A Streetcar Named Desire: A ReviewOctober 18, 2016 We (my partner and I) saw La Boite’s 2016 production of Streetcar the night after opening, which I think is a better night to get a feel for...