I wrote for Meanjin about the trailer for Stranger Things, Season 4, Vol 2. Could there be a better allegory for the hell all the kids have survived these past
My essay ‘Black Flowers’ about the 1980s nuclear noir tv Edge of Darkness and finding a form of hope in climate catastrophe, published in Fire, Flood, Plague: Australian writers respond
I reviewed Kate Grenville’s edited collection of Elizabeth Macarthur’s letters, a fascinating dialogue between a novelist and her complicated muse, for The Guardian.
…and a thrilling review in Readings Newsletter in which my writing is described as holding an antique weapon to literary tradition: Tranter’s writing is very contemporary, but it also feels
I’m thrilled to be attending the Singapore Writers Festival in November. I was born in Singapore in 1972 though I left for Australia when I was just six weeks old.
I talked with Wild Colonial Girl, aka the lovely Kirsten Krauth, about the transformational aspects of becoming a parent as part of a series of interviews with writing mothers on
I wrote about my favourite friendships in literature – Anne of Green Gables and her bosom friend Diana Barry get a big mention, along with The Secret History and Brideshead
Looking forward to rugging up for the inaugural Southern Highlands Writers Festival in Bowral this coming weekend July 21 & 22: a great program including Kate Forsyth, Malla Nunn and
