LATEST NEWS:

• On the Edge of the Deep Blue Sea, a play-in-development, longlisted for the 26th Patrick White Playwrights Award, Sydney Theatre Company, 2026

• ‘The second anniversary’, a poem, published in the Australian Poetry Anthology (volume 12, 2025-2026)

• two poems, ‘Witness’ and ‘Solar array’, published in Locative Magazine

• review of The Minstrels, a novel by Eva Hornung, published in Guardian Australia

• ‘Night nectar’, a poem, published in Bodies without Permission, ANARKISS (UK)

• ‘Year of the Snake’, a poem in two parts, published in Lantana, Australia’s newest literary journal

• ‘Inconvenience’ shortlisted for the 2025 Newcastle Poetry Prize

• ‘The river’, a poem, published in AC | DC: Journal for the Bent‍ (USA)

• ‘With your voice, my life begins’, a poem, published in Oystercatcher

• 'Under the ivy’, a poem, published in Horseshoe Literary Magazine (Canada)

• ‘How to make a scene’, a poem, published in Meanjin

• ‘In this moment I am neither’ shortlisted for the 2025 ACU Prize for Poetry

• ‘What Life is Really Like: on Timothy Conigrave’s Holding the Man’, a reflective review commissioned and published by Kill Your Darlings

• ‘The Garden’, a short story, longlisted for the 2025 Lane Cove Literary Award

• ‘Shrapnel’, an essay in the zuihitsu form about Anzac Day, published by Griffith Review

• world premiere of The Story of the Oars, a play with spokenword and music, at The Street Theatre, Canberra, Australia on 19 September 2025 - poster and link below

EVENTS:

• Night of the Bookers: David Szalay and Susan Choi with Nigel Featherstone, 6pm Tuesday 12 May 2026 - a special Canberra Writers Festival event

JOURNAL:

• occasional updates and observations/reflections at Under the Counter or a Flutter in the Dovecot