There are a lot of young men in my packed close-together neighbourhood. Young women too but their voices don't carry the same on the cool...

Today marks two months since I started my residency in Dunedin. It also marks the day that draft one of my novel is completed. My...

Being resident in Dunedin for six months as the Otago University College of Education/ Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in...

Since 2014 this short story form has taken a grip on me

I hear the name of our destination as we explore a new piece of coastline. I ask, is this the only road in? and I think of the police...

I've been in Dunedin for two weeks now. This is a city I've visited before but never got to know. I joked that every time I visited it...

The biggest surprise in this very surprising year was to be offered a fellowship for 2021 at Otago University. I will be the University...

Free Teaching notes for Avis and the Promise of Dragons.

Writing is not like Skydiving! You don't have to get it right first time!

"Thought comes with writing, and writing may never come if it is postponed until we are satisfied we have something to say."

‘If every promise made were an egg, then the world would be miles-deep in broken eggshells.’