An excerpt of the memoir I write for cellist Heather Stratfold has been published in Salience Magazine: The Lesser Trodden Path | Salience (salienceatsydney.org)

Factory TwoFour mentioned Share your life story in an article about recording your travel stories in a memoir or life story. How To Tell Everyone About Your Travel Memories | FactoryTwoFour

FEEL Guide mentioned Share your life story in their article about the importance of family heirlooms and family history and the importance of capturing your life story. Why You Need to Keep Important Memories of Your Family (feelguide.com)

Thank you Faber Writing Academy for posting this article about my forthcoming publication of Breaking through the pain barrier. The extraordinary life of Dr Michael J. Cousins by Hawkeye Books. Breaking through the pain barrier charts the life and career of Dr Michael J. Cousins AO, a trailblazing Australian pain medicine researcher and clinician who pioneered […]

The demise of the National Archives is deeply concerning. As President of Life Stories Australia Association – dedicated to supporting the craft of life story writing and recording and supporting the professionals who do that – I was quoted in the AGE and SMH about the urgent need for our national treasures to be digitised. […]

On my 24th birthday, some thugs pushed me off my bicycle as I cycled along the road at Pallarenda in Townsville. The force of the impact was so strong it propelled me into the air, and I landed on my head before rolling headfirst down the road. I was knocked unconscious and woke up in […]

Great news! I won third prize in the 2021 Hawkeye Publishing Prize for my biography, Breaking through the pain barrier. The story of Michael J. Cousins AO, the story of the trailblazing pain medicine researcher, clinician, advocate and educator, Professor Michael Cousins, who pioneered novel pain treatments. The biography explores the way historic events and larger […]

Judges have announced the Short-List in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize for 2021. My biography, Breaking through the pain barrier. The story of Michael J. Cousins AO made it onto the short-list. The number of entrants trebled after the success of the 2020 competition, which saw four publishing contracts awarded. The winner of this year’s […]

Faber Writing Academy at Allen and Unwin. At the end of last year, I felt privileged to win the Faber Academy Scholarship to take part in Patti Miller’s Writing True Stories course. Over the previous two decades as Patti published each new book on memoir writing, I studied it, but learning from her in person […]