Writing, Directing & Fiction Highlights

Writing, Directing & Fiction Highlights

WIFT Mentorship 2009

Directing with Athina Tsoulis

Brandland

(Animation screenplay – top three NZWG/Final Draft Competition June 2008)

Beautiful Collision

(Short screenplay – top ten NZWG/Final Draft Competition June 2008)

Poppy

(Feature film – Creative Communities funded filmed workshop of test scene May 2008)

The Poets

(Short film – Credits: Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer)

Monarch

(Highly commended Page & Blackmore short fiction competition 2008)

Syrup

(Graeme Lay short fiction anthology The NZ Book of the Beach October 2008)

The Temperature of Water

(published Silver Owl Press 2008)

Second-Hand Wedding

(Credits: Screenplay, Associate Producer and Unit Publicist 2007)

Water Bores

(Graeme Lay short fiction anthology The NZ Book of the Beach 2007)

The Handkerchief

(Screenplay – Winner of the British Short Screenplay Competition 2006)

Brandland

(Broadcast Radio New Zealand National 2006)

The Handkerchief

(Broadcast Radio New Zealand National 2006)

Plunket Sleep Video for New Babies

(Writer credit)

The Geometry of Desire

(Short story collection published David Ling 2005)

Open Home

(Placed in top ten KM Radio competition 2004)

Plates

(Finalist in Writers Digest – International competition 2004)

Radiance

(Placed 3rd Katherine Mansfield 2003)

Out of Range

(Broadcast Radio NZ 2003)

Creative New Zealand grant for short story collection 2003

Journey

(Finalist Ripping Good Read Competition 2002)

Hope

(Finalist Katherine Mansfield 2002, Broadcast Radio NZ 2002)

Syrup

(Published The Listener 2000)

New Eden

(Placed top in Ripping Good Read Competition Literary section 2000)

Slip of the tongue

(Runner up NZWW/Franklin competition – published online at nzwriters.com and Contact newspaper 2001)

The Geometry of Desire

(Published Oxford Book of New Zealand Love Stories, 1999 Finalist HQ Flamingo competition 1999)

Just Like

(Highly Commended – Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition 1997 – Judge – Owen Marshall)

Media

Focus on Arts radio show
Janet Secker for Coast Access Radio
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Festival Writers are mostly local
The Dominion Post, August 7 2009
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The Temperature of Water
Next Magazine, May 2009.
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Water works
The Listener, February 7 2009.
PDF (204KB)

Secret lives
your weekend, November 15 2008.
PDF (196KB)

New Kapiti book’s watery launch
Kapiti Observer, November 10 2008.
PDF (680KB)

Stars in their midst
The Dominion Post, October 23 2008.
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Time & again
NZ House & Garden, August 2007
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