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Prizes and Fellowships

Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre Residential Fellowship (Perth, Western Australia), 2023

Van Diemen History Prize (joint winner), Forty South Publishing (Tasmania), for “Anatomy of a Scandal: A Love Triangle in 1820s Hobart Town”, 2022-23

Cosmopolitan UK Blog Awards, “Best Health, Diet and Fitness Blog”, 2011

University of Tasmania, PLOT Drama Society One Act Play Competition, one of three winners, 2000

BOOKS

The Latte Years, Melbourne: Nero/Black Inc Books, Paperback ISBN: 9781863957939, eISBN: 9781925203691, 2016

ANTHOLOGIES

Essay: “Anatomy of a Scandal: A Love Triangle in 1820s Hobart Town” inThe Van Diemen Anthology 2023, Hobart: Forty South Publishing, Paperback ISBN: 9780645736786, 2023

Short stories

Queen Mob’s Tea House - “The Emerging Artist”, 2019 - click here to read

Weekends Collected - “Miss Rickmansworth’s Sunday”, 2012

Bad Idea: Future Human Butcher’s Shop - “The Angina Monologues”, 2009

TALKS AND PUBLIC EVENTS

“Deep mapping colonial Hobart”, Professional Historians Association (Vic/Tas), State Library of Tasmania / Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, May 2023

“Anatomy of a Scandal: A Love Triangle in 1820s Hobart Town”, Humanities Live Series, University of Tasmania, July 2022

“Make a map, not a tracing: searching for Maria Lord in colonial and modern-day Hobart”, Writing Lives Symposium, University of Tasmania, Hobart, June 2022

“Searching for Maria: creating a deep map of colonial Hobart”, Humanities Live Series, University of Tasmania, 2021

“John Owen Lord’s journal”, 91 Stories, Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office, exhibited 9 August-7 November at Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart, Tasmania, 2021

“Unknown Women From History”, radio panel, Evenings with Lucie Cutting, ABC Radio Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania, 2021

“Working within the ‘contested zone’: negotiating fiction, biography and history”, Humanities Live Series, University of Tasmania, 2020

“Something of a Scandal”, Embodied Lives, Australian Women’s History Network Hobart Chapter Symposium, 2019

“Write this Run”, panelist and presenter, London, UK, 2013

ARTICLES

Onya Magazine - “The Best Vegan Eats in Melbourne: from Abbotsford to Northcote”, 2023, click here to read

Guardian Australia - “In the year since I quit social media, my screen time has fallen, my mood is up – even my resting heart rate is lower”, 2023

Onya Magazine - “The Best Vegan Eats in Sydney: from Newtown to Surry Hills”, 2023, click here to read

TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses - “If my tongue were torn away / It would reform itself: reviewing Ann-Marie Priest’s biography of Gwen Harwood” [book review], 2022, click here to read

Womankind (Issue 30) - “Home Decoration Diary” [first-person journalism], 2021

TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses - “Riding the (Fourth) wave” [book review], 2021, click here to read

Traces: The Australian Family History Magazine (Issue 14) - “Something of a scandal: a Hobart Town love triangle” and “Context and imagination in historical research” [essays], 2021

Guardian Australia - “Five affordable alternatives to Australia’s luxury lodges” (contributor) - September 2019 - click here to read

The Persephone Bianually (No. 24) - Mariana by Monica Dickens [book review], currently only available in print, 2019

Hundreds and Thousands - “My Town”, click here to buy the issue (print only), 2018

EBRD.com - "EBRD launches new Resettlement Guidance and Good Practice publication", 2017 - click here for article

Huffington Post - "New year, real you", 2016 - click here for article

Huffington Post - "Getting divorced in my 20s made me a better person", 2016 - click here for article

Sunday Life - "Starter Marriage", 2016 - click here for article

CLEO - Career Special - The Inconvenient Truth, 2016 (available in print issue only)

Elle Australia - Nostalgia - In with the new: five writers reflect on the art of resolution making, 2016 (available in print issue only)

Hundreds and Thousands - Who's Your Nana? - April 2015 - (print only)

Agri Investor - “Are north Australian farmland prices bottoming out?”, 2015 - click here for article (subscription only)

Macmillan Cancer Support - Go Sober for October - Beginning afresh: inspiration for your new healthy lifestyle, 2014 - click here for article

EBRD.com - New EBRD Gender video premieres, 2014 - click here for article

Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature & The Arts, “From chick lit to choc lit”, 2014 - click here for article

EBRD.com - The EBRD harvests results on food security (with Gerry Nedelcheva and Iride Ceccacci), 2014 - click here for article

Trade Exchange – Up close: Per Fischer, 2013 – click here for article

Trade Exchange – Taiwan Excellence Awards, 2013 – click here for article

Cosmopolitan.co.uk – South Tyrol: Discover another side of Italy, 2013, click here for article

Cosmopolitan.co.uk – Cosmo makes pasta like a pro at Theo Randall’s masterclass, 2013 – click here for article

The Guardian - Life & Style - Readers' recipe swap: vegan (contributor), 2013 - click here for article

Cosmopolitan.co.uk – Bologna bellissima!, 2013 – click here for article

Cosmopolitan.co.uk – A spa adventure tour in Reykjavik, Iceland, 2013 – click here for article

Baker Ross - Christmas Activity E-Book (recipe contributor), 2012 - click here for the book

Cosmopolitan.co.uk – From a broken back to fighting back: a real life fitness inspiration story, 2012 – click here for article - plus many others, details can be supplied on request

Women’s Running – Ikano Robin Hood Half Marathon, 2012 – click here for article

Running Fitness – The Latte Files, columnist for five issues – December 2011 to May 2012 – hard copies of columns can be supplied on request

Tumbler: The Australian Whisky Magazine – contributor for every issue - September 2009 to January 2011 – hard copies of articles can be supplied on request

Student BMJ – The Dangers of Facebook (with Neil Graham) – October 2008 – click here for article

POETRY

Trespass: “I would like my love to die”, 2008

Smoke: A London Peculiar - “To London”, 2007

PLAYS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED

Deloraine Drama Festival, “Anywhere But Here”, 2000

University of Tasmania, PLOT Open Season, “Anywhere But Here”, 2000

The Latte Years launch with friend and author Rae Earl in Hobart, January 2016.
Image by Tom Schoon.

Write This Run, May 2013. Image by Tom Schoon.

Write This Run, May 2013. Image by Tom Schoon.

Cosmopolitan Blog Awards 2011

Cosmopolitan Blog Awards 2011

The London Whisky Show, 2009. Image by Tom Schoon.

The London Whisky Show, 2009. Image by Tom Schoon.