Secret Third Thing
Debut full-length poetry collection Secret Third Thing is out now via Cordite Books and is available from wherever you buy books.
💥 Secret Third Thing won the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award.
💥 Secret Third Thing won the 2022-2023 Five Islands Prize. Read the judges’ report.
💥 Secret Third Thing was named one of the ‘best 25 Australian books of 2023’ by The Guardian.
💥 Poems within Secret Third Thing have won the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Val Vallis Award, XYZ Prize, Harri Jones Prize, and Woollahra Digital Literary Award, among others.
🪲 Read a review of Secret Third Thing for Meanjin.
💼 Read a review of Secret Third Thing for Australian Book Review.
🪲 Read another review of Secret Third Thing for Meanjin.
💼 Read Eda Gunaydin’s introduction to Secret Third Thing.
🪲 Read the preface to Secret Third Thing.
💼 Read an excerpt here, here, and here.
Winner: SECRET tHIRD tHING
Mary Gilmore Award
A jellyfish government in NSW: public education’s privatisation-by-neglect
Essay / Overland
Interview: 3CR
3CR Radical Radio
Under the Hood
Poetry Workshop / Northern Territory Writers Centre / 16 November 2023
Link Rot: 9000% More Neck / Default Browser / Enshittification Gothic
3 Poems / The Suburban Review
Everything will be okay for your landlord
Poem / Cordite
The NSW Labor Government Has Just Offered Teachers Worse Pay Than the Conservatives
Essay / Jacobin
I named her naturally because I love castles
Fiction / Meanjin
Long Furby memory hole
ShortlistED: Blade of Grass, Meadow of Knives
Calibre Essay Prize 2023 / Essay
EWF23: Club Critique
Emerging Writers’ Festival 2023 / National Writers’ Conference / Panel
QPF: The Reading Room - Evenings
Queensland Poetry Festival / Reading
The Floor is Fuel Load
Poem / Rabbit #36
A Life Of Prizes
Poem / Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology
READING: NOTHING TO HIDE SHOWCASE
Event / Marrickville Library
ADUANTAS
Queensland Poetry Val Vallis Award / Cordite
Barbaric struts and cosmic indigestion in Jordan Peele’s Nope
CLUAIN
Arts Queensland XYZ Prize for Excellence in Spoken Word
How to leave work on time when working from home
Poem / Southerly
Lunchtime Literature: Accessing the Industry
Panel / Emerging Writers’ Festival
CAN’T CANT
Poem / Overland
The privatisation of hate
UNTITLED GOOSE POEM / VERY EYES / NO ALARMS
Poetry / Groundswell Anthology / Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Condition Report_FINAL
Poem + Video / Running Dog
Ferris Bueller’s funeral
Essay / Going Down Swinging
DECEMBER 5: READING
Summer? I hardly know her!
WINNER: WE’RE PROCESSING YOUR DIRECT DEBIT
Winner of 2021 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Poetry
How_to_be_the_best_worker_in_the_world.ppt
SHORTLISTED: UNBELIEVABLE MEME AFTERLIFE
Newcastle Poetry Prize
Winner: Workarounds
2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Interview: ABC Radio National
ABC Radio
Best of Australian Poems 2023
Poem / Blade of Grass, Meadow of Knives / Australian Poetry
Up Late: Where Has All The Money Gone?
Event / The Wheeler Centre / 13 October 2023
Where is the rent ceiling? Housing injustice and the oversupply of landlords
Book Launch: secret Third Thing
Better Read Than Dead, Gadigal Country, 30 June 2023, 6:30pm
EWF23: Next Big Thing
Emerging Writers’ Festival 2023 / Reading
QPF: Playing With Poetry
Queensland Poetry Festival / Panel
QPF Opening Night
Aduantas refuses after Foiseach dies
Fiction / Overland
This is where the rat bastard poem comes in
SHORTLISTED: CREEPYPASTA
Video poem / Woollahra Digital Literary Award in Digital Innovation
Non-binary as in
Poem / Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia / Allen & Unwin
PANEL: ENQUEER
Event / University of Sydney
How to leave work on time
NYWF 2022
Panels x3 / National Young Writers’ Festival 2022
WHAT FANGS OUT OF THE BRACKEN WITH A HEAD FULL OF GARDEN?
Red Room Poetry / 30in30 / Poetry Month
THE (FOUR) EIGHT HORSE(MEN) FRIENDS OF THE (APOCALYPSE) NEW NORMAL
Public Education Is in Crisis, but Who Cares?
Essay / Meanjin
Why we are going on strike
CREEPYPASTA
SEPTEMBER 30 - 3 OCTOBER: NATIONAL YOUNG WRITERS’ FESTIVAL
Panel + Debate + Reading
XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word
WE’RE PROCESSING YOUR DIRECT DEBIT
Poem + Video / Red Room Poetry
Wow! This is so metaphorical!
April 8: Cuplet Poetry Night #22
Reading w/ Linda Adair, Rory Green, Georgina Woods
May 11: AVANT GAGA 49
Reading w/ Sara M Saleh, Brooke Scobie, Lou Garcia-Dolnik
RUNNER-UP: How_to_be_the_best_worker_in_the_world.ppt
Val Vallis Award
Chondrilla
Fiction / The Suburban Review
Coronavirus has left casual teachers like me unemployed
ABC ⧟ Non-fiction
No alarms - First place - Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2019/20
Overland ⧟ Poetry
Teachers are suffering 'audit anxiety' and it's reducing their time in the classroom
Everything will be okay for your landlord - Shortlisted - Fair Australia Prize
Overland ⧟ Poem ⧟ Prize
I Might be Two-faced but I Wear One Snood
The Suburban Review ⧟ Poetry + Q&A
The death of private healthcare can’t come soon enough
Crikey ⧟ Non-fiction
A Trip Down (False) Memory Lane: (C4H9)3Snta Claus and Other Dickheads (Disambiguation)
Meanjin ⧟ Non-fiction
Accreditation adds to the ‘red tape Olympics’ haunting teachers
Sydney Morning Herald & The Age ⧟ Non-fiction
I’m selling a large suitcase?
Going Down Swinging ⧟ Poetry/Fiction/Error code
POEM PLANET: THE WORLD’S GREATEST PLANET ON EARTH
Couplet / Brisbane Libraries / QPF ⧟ Poetry / Video
JUNE 19: EMERGING WRITERS’ FESTIVAL: Literary Futures
Panel
APRIL 30: SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL: Iconic Duos
Panel w/ Rebecca Giggs, Oliver Reeson, Maria Tumarkin, Jonathon Slottje, Bruce Pascoe
Cuplet TV online reading
Cuplet TV ⧟ Poetry / Video
Queensland Poetry Festival / Finalist: 2020 Film+Poetry Challenge
No alarms
Winner: Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
No alarms: Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Panacea Poets & Queensland Poetry Festival ⧟ Poetry / Video
Grasses
Fondue Audio Anthology ⧟ Fiction / Audio
Casual teachers need support during the COVID-19 crisis
Sydney Morning Herald ⧟ Non-fiction
Onceability
Rabbit ⧟ Poetry
How to never ever ride a goat
The Lifted Brow ⧟ Non-fiction
increasing ATAR scores won’t fix the education crisis
Ban on mobile phones in schools is short-sighted
Also available at MSN.
Mint Leaves Are The Most Feral Confectionery In All The Land
Junkee ⧟ Non-fiction
The robodebt debacle proves the Coalition can’t be trusted with our money
Teachers mugged for $100 every year, but for what?
Please, sir, I want more funding for public schools
Also available without paywall at MSN.
The case for a Labor-Greens coalition
The Terminator, too
Digital Writers’ Festival ⧟ Speculative Non-fiction
Let the bed bugs bite
Lor Journal ⧟ Fiction
Shitposting the Pain Away (Or All the Cars I Have Owned)
Things I would rather do than read
Scum ⧟ Poetry
Castle
Porridge Magazine ⧟ Poetry
The bureaucratic absurdities of teaching in New South Wales
Overland ⧟ Non-fiction
Stoked on the taddies
Scum Mag ⧟ Non-fiction
Paradise Integrity (/)(°,,°)(/)
Cordite ⧟ Poetry
FYRE FESTIVAL (personification)
Master of Commerce ☭ Poetry
Naplan's writing tasks are crude and arbitrary. As teachers we feel voiceless
The Guardian ⧟ Non-Fiction
NAPLAN is bad but the Education Minister's alternative is worse
Review: Christopher Pyne's Australian Military Sales Catalogue
Ibis House ⧟ Non-fiction
A Laughing Death in Meatspace could be the soundtrack to your anxiety
Raw Meat ⧟ Non-fiction
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