photo credit: Alan Weedon
Now:
- writer
- publisher and director at The Lifted Brow
- rotating course coordinator/lecturer/tutor at Melbourne University, RMIT, Victoria University and Deakin University, teaching publishing, creative writing, digital writing, and editing subjects
- literary critic — regular bylines in national newspapers
- freelance editor and copywriter (experience writing for many different industries, including the arts, government, construction, real estate, and more
- Advisory Committee member for RMIT and Deakin University’s creative writing programs
- hoster of events, chairer of panels, presenterer of workshops, convenerer of good people (e.g. hosted and run events at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, the Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, National Young, and Emerging writers’ festivals, at the Walkey ‘Storyology’ Conference, and at the Wheeler Centre)
- judger of prizes and grants (e.g. 2016 VPLA Non-Fiction Prize, 2015 Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards, 2014 VPLA Unpublished Manuscript Award, 2013 & 2014 Express Media Innovation Prize)
- recipient of an Australia Council ‘Early Career Residency’ grant, and a City of Literature travel fund grant
- firing out sweet petite tweets
Earlier:
- baby
- terrible twos
- can’t remember
- reader/editor at Voiceworks
- guest fiction editor at Overland #201
- fiction slush-pile reader at Overland
- guest fiction editor for Lifted Brow #10
- worked for Giramondo
- worked for Momentum
- hosted panels at EWF and NYWF and PWF and BWF and MWF and SWF and TWC and MIFF
- willingly online self-prostituted for the MWF
- Program Committee member for the Emerging Writers’ Festival
- reader-out-louderer sometimes, e.g.
- reviewed Melbourne Fringe Festival shows
- reader/editor for Sleepers Almanacs
- guest-lecturer for proper official universities, occasionally
- mixing music because why not
- done things with/for Griffith Review
- program manager at the Small Press Network
- funning it up at Troika Moonshine 300
- master’s degree graduate from the Sydney Consortium
- editor of The Lifted Brow
