I am always available for poetry/spoken word/slam or creative writing workshops, having done many at universities, libraries, high schools, primary schools, TAFEs and even on a tram once. Please contact me if you need any further information: go here.

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT and ACTIVITIES

• Co-presenter on 3RRR's spoken word show Aural Text;
• Previously co-editor of literary magazine Going Down Swinging for seven years;
• Awarded residencies at KSP Writers' Centre, Varuna & at the Melbourne Aquarium;
• Previously weekly book reviewer on 3RRR's Breakfasters; 
• Presented a spoken word segment on JJJ's Artery;
  
• Previously working as a poetry and short story teacher with Chisholm, RMIT, NMIT and Sunraysia TAFEs;
• Previously Chairperson and poetry mentor for youth arts organisation Express Media; 
• Given workshops and lectures on creative writing at various TAFEs,

• Primary and Secondary Schools and libraries over the past 9 years;
  
• Given workshops for The Big Issue, Overland and Roomers;
  
• Conducted workshops for the City of Melbourne for Word Up, a rap project;
  

• Conducted workshops at Northcote High School (relevant review here);

• In 2002 invited to Darwin by Australia Council to be part of the Riffs n' Raves project;
• From time to time played music in the band The Three Sixties;
• Judge of the Glen Eira Eastend Bookseller's Award (2007), Local section for the Greater Dandenong Short Story Award (2002), Judge for junior poetry for Young Gourmet (2007) and one of the judges of the video entries for the Australian Poetry Slam 2008.
  

ORGANISED

• Director and one of the writers of the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2009 show, Elemental (poetry in the planetarium);
  

• Co-organised the first ever national radio poetry slam on Radio National (2004);
• Poetry readings at the Big Day Out 2003 (also performing in Melbourne);

•  Readings as part of the Melbourne Writers' Festival (1999-2001)

NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES and PUBLISHED WORKS

•  kissing the curve and Soundtrack.
  
• Wrote a regular column for the Melbourne Times and other syndicated papers (1998-2000);
• Non-fiction pieces for New Matilda, Voiceworks, InPress, Beat, Cordite, Write On and Meanjin;
• Creative pieces for Going Down Swinging, Verandah (winning the Matthew Rocca Poetry Prize, 2005 & 2006), Heat, papertiger, Southerly, Four W (winning the best short story & poem awards 2008), Westerly, Hecate, Red Room Company, Short Fuse, ABC - Poetica, Famous Reporter, Footy's Greatest Players, Overland, Adventures in Pop Culture, Blue Dog, Short: a collection of interesting short stories (Black Dog Books) Muse, Moving Galleries Project, published online for the State Library of Victoria, Kickers and Knockers, hutt, Cutwater, Big Bridge, Motherlode, Herding Kites, Cornerfold SBS etc;
• In Best Australian Poems 2006 and 2009, Black Inc;
• Won the 2010 Essence of St Kilda Word Prize
  

SPOKEN WORD

• Performed regularly since 1992 at a variety of venues, festivals including performances in the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, Festival Voix d'Ameriques, Melbourne Writers' Festival, Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, The Next Wave Festival, the Queensland Poetry Festival, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, The National Young Writers' Festival, Mildura Arts Festival, Crime and Justice Festival, Overload Poetry Festival, and the Mornington Peninsula Writers' Festival;
• Appeared on various spoken word CD anthologies;
• Pieces commissioned by the Melbourne Museum and the Art Gallery of Victoria;
• Won numerous slams and was winner of the 2006 Dorris Leadbetter Cup.A participant in the Fringe Best Spoken word show 2001 for 'Me, I Like Football'.

 

RADIO

• Have performed and been interviewed on JJJ, 3RRR, 774, 3PBS, 3CR, 4ZZZ, 2SER, 5UV, ABC Darwin, ABC Kimberley, ABC Hobart, 3AW, RN, BBC radio in London and on Alternation in Los Angeles;
• Have had reviews and an interview presented on Radio National's Book Show.

 

TELEVISION

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• Featured on SBS TV's Nomad program;
• Interviewed for the ABC TV's Recovery program;
• Have performed on Optus TV and Channel 31;
• A contestant on The Einstein Factor;
• Poet in Residence in 2006 on ABC TV's Sunday Arts.