I was lucky enough to spend a month in China to round out the year's end for 2025 as a guest of Sun Yat-Sen University Centre for English-Language Creative Writing. The four-week Sun Yat-sen University Writers' Residency, organised by Professor Fan Dai of the School of International Studies, included working with translation students to improve the Chinese translation drafts of the my novella Instructions for a Steep Decline (which won the Grffith Review Novella Prize in 2019

Image: Cover image of Meanjin 84.2, courtesy of University of Melbourne Press.   The creative writing program at the University of...

I'm excited to have signed a contract for a new book with NewSouth. The project is a nonfiction book tentatively titled Women of the...

My work as Managing Editor at TEXT journal is both challenging and rewarding. It's a team project and it's always exciting to publish a...

I am thrilled to announce that I am one of the recipients of the Whitlam Essay Residency for 2025. Presented in partnership with the...

Contributing to a best books list is always fraught for me: I really don’t like picking favourites. On the other hand, I do like to...

I spent a few days in early November 2024 as Academic in Residence at JohnXXIII College in Perth, Western Australia, where I talked...

I'm proud to be a leading member of the editorial team at TEXT journal, where we've just released our latest issue –  Vol 28 No 2...