This is a transcript of the talk I gave at the 2019 Sydney Writers Festival. 

I’d like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land we’re meeting on today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay my respects to their elders past, present and futur...

It’s been one of those years of reading where many books have flown by without me taking a moment to properly register how much of an impact they had on me, or even just how enjoyable they were.

I turned to reading this year as stress relief more than pleasure, while I...

In the months leading up to my memoir being published, I was riddled with anxiety. No Country Woman is a collection of essays on race, religion and feminism, told through the lens of my experiences growing up as a migrant in Australia.

Race, religion, feminism – given t...

This is a transcript of a talk I gave at Melbourne Writers Festival 2018, as part of the Animal Church stream of programming. 

Flashback to April 2018.

It’s a crisp day, the breeze gently ruffling the dry fields around me, tugging at the sleeves of my riding jacket. I am...

I spoke at the International Women's Day Feminartsy Story-share last week, on three things I would change about feminism today. Here's a transcript of the talk! 

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I’d like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land we’re meeting on, the Ngunnawal peop...

After nine glorious months, I'm down to my last five days living in Edinburgh, Scotland. As cliche as it is to say, it's been a whirlwind, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about moving back to Canberra this weekend. On one hand, I have missed Australia, and being a...

In June 2017, I moved to Scotland with my partner and our cat, for an adventure. Eight months later, I am in Canberra briefly, before we move back home permanently after an amazing time experiencing life in Edinburgh. When we first arrived in Scotland, my homesickness...

I have recently become addicted to trashy television (Pretty Little Liars. Like, really trashy), and haven’t read as much as I like. But I still tore through these four over the past month, and loved them!

The Wonder – Emma Donoghue

Set in rural Ireland in the years afte...

Now that I’m not working full-time, I have so much more energy for reading. I suppose it also helps that I have a total of five friends in Scotland (and two of them are dogs).

In any case, here are some books that I’ve been loving recently:

Cousins by Sally Vickers

For so...

Hello from auld reekie!

Well, it’s been a while since I blogged about anything. But now that I am quite some distance from home, it seems an appropriate form of jotting down the things I think about while in Scotland that no publication will ever pay me for, but that I...