Copywriting | Feature Writing | Hobart, Tasmania
The 2025 work year is over me – so I thought I would pop one final blog post up on here.
First, to say thank you very much to all the clients who have supported my little business this year. I am so grateful for the opportunities you have sent my way, and hope I have done your projects justice.
It’s been a few months since I did a post about my work projects, so I thought I would pop on here and share a few links!
Firstly, a thank you to Brand Tasmania, who continue to be one of my most regular clients – and also one of my favourites! My work for them involves taking interview transcripts and turning them into profiles. Sometimes there are a few as part of a series – women in sport, or healthcare workers – other times it’s just an inspiring individual who in some way captures what it means to be Tasmanian. My recent profiles have included:
Hello friends,
I hope the year is treating you well. We are very happy to be moving into spring here in Tasmania – the warmer, lighter days are a delight after a very wet and windy winter. I no longer have to shove a hot water bottle up my jumper when I’m sitting at the desk in my home office!
Since it’s been a couple of months since my last post on here, I thought it was time to share a few more links to pieces I’ve worked on recently. So, here goes.
Almost all of these are articles that I’ve written for CSIRO, but they’re on a very diverse range of subjects so hopefully there will be at least one that piques your interest!
July already! Goodness me, how did that happen? This year seems to be galloping along at an incredible pace.
It has been a very busy year for me so far, with a great combination of shorter one-off projects and longer tasks that I can really immerse myself in. I hope the second half of the year continues in the same way – although perhaps with fewer family medical dramas. Thank you to all my wonderful clients for your patience and flexibility as we worked through that tricky little spell.
It’s always fun to take a moment and reflect on the variety of work that has come across my desk, and this update is no exception.
Just a very quick post from me today to share some recent pieces I’ve had published.
These three links say more than I ever could about the diversity of work that comes my way as a freelancer!
Firstly, I was so pleased to have an essay published in Guardian Australia, reflecting on the ten years that have passed since we first visited Tasmania, and everything that has happened in that time. I’ve had a lovely response to the piece, which I was initially just going to pop on my own DorkyMum blog, so I’m very grateful to the Guardian team for giving it a home and helping it find a bigger audience.
You can read that here: I was told to live like a tourist after my 18,000km move. But I owe Tasmania more than that. Continue reading “May 2023: Some recent work”
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful, restful break over the festive period, and you’ve started 2023 feeling enthusiastic and energised!
Here in Tasmania, schools only went back a couple of days ago. While I did manage a few bits and pieces of work over the holidays, it’s nice to be getting those longer stretches of uninterrupted and focused time again.
I thought I would share links a few recent pieces of work. It’s great fun having this blog to look back on and remind myself of what a variety of projects I do each year.
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I’ve been lucky enough to work on a real diversity of writing projects recently, and I thought I’d share a few of them here.
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My inner map geek is very happy this month.
I’ve recently written a couple of pieces for CSIRO about TraNSIT, their transport planning tool. First developed ten years ago for use in the livestock industry, the tool now helps with supply chain efficiency in a range of industries. It has even been used in the tourism sector, and to assist Emergency Management Australia during extreme weather events.
The first piece I wrote was an overarching history about the last ten years of TraNSIT.
While the second focused on how it can be used to get supplies to communities during floods or fire.
Hope you enjoy reading them.
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I’ve recently enjoyed writing another couple of pieces for CSIRO, and thought I would share the links here in case they’re of interest.
The first is a post on the ECOS blog that explains compound risk and explores ways of supporting Australian communities that are dealing with multiple extreme events: How to build resilience in the face of compounding extreme events.
The second is a piece for Resourceful magazine about the new Carbon Lock research initiative: Locking away carbon permanently.
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I’m deep in a big travel writing project at the moment, but in December and January it was science writing keeping me busy!
Here are some of the recent pieces I’ve written for CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency:
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