Writing Resume

Published work:

Dead People’s Music (novel), Vintage 2009

Freezer Burn (short story), Penguin Book of Contemporary NZ Short Stories, to be published 2009

Inside a pomegranate (short story), Best NZ Fiction Vol. 5, Vintage 2008

Coming up Roses, Vintage 2007 (short story anthology)

Notes on Etiquette (short story), Sport 35, 2007

The Wrong Shoe (short story), Sunday Star Times, 2006

Newlywed (short story). Dramatised for National Radio, 2005.

Stepping on Cracks (short story). The New Zealand Listener,

Pod (short story), Creative Juices, ed. Emma Neale, Harper Collins Publishers, Auckland, New Zealand, 2002

Three Brief Encounters (prose), Sport//27, 2001

Trapeze, Baby (poems), Takahe 40, New Zealand, August 2000

Crib, Borscht, The Birds (poems), Takahe 39, New Zealand, March 2000

At the (York) Bay (poem), Writing and Presenting, a textbook for senior school, ed. Linda Burgess, Sanadra Mohekey, Alan Cox. Longman Pearson, New Zealand, 1997.

Awards:

Winner, Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition 2006

Residencies:

Michael King Writers’ Centre, September-November 2008

Festival Appearances:

Going West, Titirangi, August 2008, with Karlo Mila.

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, May 2008 – on a panel with Booker prize-winner Anne Enright and Peter Ho Davies.

New Zealaind International Arts Festival, Wellington, March 2008, as part of Once Upon a Deadline

Christchurch Writers Festival, September 2007, with Charlotte Grimshaw, Owen Marshall and Carl Nixon

Other Writing Projects:

Roadslappers, a spoken word performance, Wellington Fringe Festival, 2001 (funded by Creative Communities grant)

Roadslappers magazine and website, 2001 (funded by Creative Communities grant)

Poetry for Real, a spoken word performance, Wellington Fringe Festival, 2000 (funded by Creative Communities grant)

Courses and programmes:

IIML Iowa workshop 2007, Constructing a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld

NZSA manuscript assessment programme: My manuscript was one of ten accepted for a free appraisal.

Mark Doty Memoir Writing Workshop, IIML, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004

Writing Short Films, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA, 2002

Short Fiction Workshop (CREW 254), IIML, Victoria University, 2001 Poetry Workshop, VUW Continuing Education, 1999 and 2001