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POETRY

'1 Corinthians 14:25,' 'Businessman on a Neon scooter in the rain,' and 'Walruses falling off cliffs because of climate change (on David Attenborough’s Our Planet),' in Tarot #10, 2025.

 

'There is nothing more embarrassing than wanting something,' takahē 113, 2025.​

 

'The first woman to kill,' Starling Issue 19 2025.​​

 

'Water burial in Ōwheo,' 'While we sing the Nunc Dimittis, Russia carpet-bombs Ukraine,' and 'Show Me the Place by Leonard Cohen,' in Tarot #9, 2024.

 

'More than what it might be.' Written for the NZYWF 'The Remix' event, September 2024​

 

'POV of a sheep being airlifted to a different field,' issue 11 Sweet Mammalian, 2024.

Taxidermy Falkland Islands Wolf in the Animal Attic’ and ‘Jenny Craig Weightloss Poster by Countdown Central’ written while on the NZYFW Starling Otago Museum residency 2022. In Tarot #4 June 2022.


‘Spider Night’ in takahē 2022.


‘I Cope With Things Very Well (Which is a Lie)’ in Starling Issue 14 2022.


‘Person Train’ and ‘A Sheep Cradled by its Owner, Who Sits on a Sheepskin Rug’ in Landfall 243, 2022.


‘Nobody’ in Mayhem 2021, Issue 9.


‘Third of March’ in Landfall 242, 2021.


‘Inquisitor’ in a fine line, Winter 2021.


“March Hare’ and ‘Iscariot’ in Starling Issue 11, 2021.

PROSE

2023 Winner: Staff fiction, University of Otago Creative Writing Competition, '95 Million Years'

2021 Page & Blackmore short story competition, 3rd, 'God of the Sea'

MISC

 

2024 Reading: NZYWF 'The Remix,' with Eliana Gray, Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Uenuku), Molly Crighton and Tawhai Huriwai (Tough Guy) (Ngāti Porou, Ngā Puhi), and MC Tate Fountain

2024 Reading: Small Press Fest for Staling mag, with Dominic Hoey, Liz Breslin, Ruby Appleby, Helena Mayer, and Ada Duffy

2023 Reading: '95 Million Years'

2022 Reading: 'I Cope With Things Very Well (Which is a Lie)'

2022 NZYWF: In conversation with Louise Wallace & Erin Gourley

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