Writing and Editing
Editor of M/C Reviews ‘words’, book review section, from October 2009 to June 2011
Proofreading and minor editing of book manuscript, ‘Notorious Australian Women’,for Kay Saunders, 2010
‘Understanding Writers’ Block: the mystery of the writing brain’, Writing Queensland, April 2008
‘Sue’s Story’, published in Balance: The Journal of the Mental Health Association (Qld) Inc., Winter 2007
‘Her face in the light’ published online in SmokeLong Quarterly, Issue 4, June 2004 with interview
‘Livin’ Doll’, ‘Hummingbirds’ and ‘Women’s Issues’, published online in Mangrove, issues 2 and 3
‘She’s gone to a nursing home’ published in Imago, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2000
‘Planting Trees’ published in Journal of Australian Studies’ Creative Arts Review, no 59, 1998
‘Going Back’ published in Hecate, Vol. 24, 1, 1998
Presentation of paper ‘Beating Myself Black and Blue: Why I Am Writing about Depression’ at “Wip-ping Posts”, the University of Queensland’s English Postgraduate Society 2nd Annual Work-In-Progress Conference on 9 August 1997
Performance reading of ‘Body Parts’, a collaboration with Ffion Murphy, Anne-Maree Rolley and Ingrid Woodrow, at Adelaide Fringe Festival 1998
Presentation of ‘As Bad as it Could Be? A Chapter in the Blue Life of Judith Black’, a reading from the first chapter of “Plum Sickness” in early draft form, at “As Good As It Gets?”, the University of Queensland’s English Postgraduate Society 3rd Annual Work-In-Progress Conference on 15 August 1998, and publication in the second edition for 1998 of Postscript: the journal of the UQ English Postgraduates Society
Performance reading of ‘The Buffoon’, an extract from “Plum Sickness”, at ‘Love and Catharsis’, an event organised by postgraduate students of Creative Writing Course at University of Queensland at Tongue and Groove Cafe, May 2000
Arts Queensland Grant for writing part of draft of “Paying the Rent”, a novella around adoption, families and genetics, for year 1999
Assistance to two life story writers with compilation and drafting of their autobiographies; a chapter from one appearing in Gay and Lesbian Perspectives IV: Studies in Australian Culture, under the title ‘The Shadows Also Compose: The Autobiography of a Tasmanian Lesbian’ by Eugene Barbara Nutting, 1998
