Features

I am widely published as a features writer for websites, magazines and newspapers in Australia, the UK and US. Additionally, I contributed three chapters to the Lonely Planet Experience Tasmania guidebook, published in 2022.

My writing tends to reflect my interests, which include travel, food and family, but as you’ll see from the selected clips below I’m a versatile writer who is comfortable tackling most subjects.

If you have an editorial or writing opportunity, please contact me.

Parenting and Family

• The Washington Post: I’ve Become an Accidental Dear Abby
• Guardian: He’s not my father, he’s my husband
• Literary Mama: The Last Bedtime Story
• Kidspot: Parenting as an introvert
• Mamalode: How do you measure motherhood?
• Mothers Always Write: Almost Ready
• Scary Mommy: The Things He Has Learned

Travel

• Lonely Planet Experience Tasmania: Contributor
• Guardian: A Local’s Guide to Hobart
• Guardian: Four of the best Tasmanian road trips
• Guardian: Dark Mofo or No
• Time Out (Sydney): 13 of Tasmania’s Best Kept Secrets
• Time Out (Sydney): Guide to North West Tasmania
• Time Out (Sydney): Guide to Hobart
• Kidspot: 5 Things Only Expat Parents Understand
• Kidspot: Christmas in Australia as an expat
• The Simple Things: My City, Hobart (pdf)
• Time Out (UK): Things to Do in Launceston
• Time Out (UK): 13 Best Things to Do in Tasmania

Environment and Activism

• Guardian: Au revoir Aurora Australis
• SBS: Even in Antarctica, women are experiencing sexism
• Guardian: Inspirational climate researchers feared dead on Arctic expedition
• Observer: Death on the Ice
• The Island Review: Bruny Island
• SBS Life: How to be a political activist and a parent
• The Scotsman: Together, we could trigger huge change

Food and Drink

• Guardian: Tasmania’s off-beat gin boom
• The Island Review: The Whisky Island
• The Island Review: Tasmanian Food
• The Crafty Pint: Bruny Island Brews
• The Crafty Pint: Last Rites’ First Rites
• The Crafty Pint: Trials and Fermentations

Life and Style

• Caught by the River: Dog Walking at the Bottom of the World
• Caught by the River: Going Home
• SBS Life: Would you go no shampoo?
• Offbeat Home: Why every home needs a terramundi pot
• Kidspot: What you wear as a mum helps you find your tribe
• Scary Mommy: Marie Kondo, my son, and me
• Literary Mama: Confessions of a Diary Writer

Arts, Books and Culture

• The Lifted Brow: More than MOFO
• The Island Review: A Winter in Tassie
• The Skinny: Artistic Licence
• The Skinny: Riding the Tides
• Mommikin: I am not a poet

Humour and Miscellaneous

• The Island Review: Tasnamia (Poetry)
• BLUNTMoms: You know you’ve hit the dirty thirties when…
• BLUNTMoms: I hate getting my haircut because I look like Macaulay Culkin
• Buzzfeed: 18 Signs That You Grew Up in the Western Isles

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