Varuna

  • The story behind ‘Phase’

    Here in the southern hemisphere, winter is beginning to give way to spring. Different flowers are blooming: while out walking, the heady scent of jasmine has hit me once or twice, drifting over a garden fence or down a laneway. And the sun is setting later, by about two minutes each night. And though I

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  • A return to the retreat

    Last year I wrote about a week-long retreat in the Blue Mountains with the four writing friends I met on my first Varuna residency back in 2016. We repeated the retreat this year; same house in Katoomba, though slightly later in the year, after the clocks had gone forward, so the weather was more springlike.

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  • Broken Rules and Other Stories | May 2020, Transit Lounge

    Broken Rules and Other Stories is my first collection of fiction. It’s being published in May by Transit Lounge. The collection is included in The Sydney Morning Herald feature ‘The books to read in 2020’. From derelict industrial districts, to a lonely highway diner, to the faded charm of a British seaside resort, these are

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