25 years experience.
editing. writing. publishing.
books. magazines. content.
Literary
managing editor
- The Victorian Writer, Victorian Writers Centre
- Newswrite, the Writing NSW magazine for emerging and established writers
- Australian Author for the Australian Society of Authors
- editor, Talking Writing, an ebook for Writing NSW
- assistant editor, RealTime arts journal, and commissioning editor for their film and digital media section, OnScreen
- copy editor, mETAphor, the English Teachers’ Association of NSW journal
digital copy. editorial. author platforms
web content
- editorial and web manager, Australian Film Commission (now Screen Australia)
- web manager, Sydney Film Festival
- Ether Multimedia: The Pure Drop
- Australian Screen Online
- digital marketing campaigns for authors
- blogger for clients Minbie, Assembly TV
fiction. poetry. memoir. creative nonfiction
books & manuscript assessment
- assistant editor, Sydney University’s Power Publications
- copy editor, Images of the Pacific Rim – Australia and California 1850-1935
- copy editor, Asian Modernities – Chinese and Thai Art Compared, 1980 to 1999 (awarded the prestigious Art Association of Australia and New Zealand’s Best Book Prize)
- transcript editor, Australian Biography Online
- copy editor, Penguin Plays Rough Book of Short Stories
- structural editor, Karen Andrews’ book Crying in the Car: Reflections on life and motherhood
- copy and structural editor, university research papers and theses.
get started. get finished. get published
writing coach
- passionate advocate for new and established writers
- advice and experience with all stages of the publishing process
- publisher contacts
- communications campaigns and social media strategy
- I have worked on novels, short stories, memoir, creative nonfiction and poetry for authors including Alice Nelson.
- I have a PhD in Creative Writing
- I was a judge for the 2013 Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year and the Grace Marion Wilson prize for Creative NonFiction.