Writing
WHAT I’VE WRITTEN.
AWARDS / PRIZES
The Pearl Prize: published finalist for short story October presented by Midsumma & Osborne and Fawkner Publishing (2025)
Marj Wilke Short Story Award: runner up for short story Hauntourism presented by Women Writers Queensland (2023)
Writability Fellowship Program: Highly Commended for a tailored fellowship for emerging writers with a disability by Writers Victoria (2023)
Judith Rodriguez Bursary: awarded as a postgraduate student actively advocating for women’s rights by Graduate Women Victoria (2022)
Cassidy Bequest Scholarship: awarded for artistic excellence as a postgraduate student at the University of Melbourne (2022)
Young Creative of the Year: Nominated for recognition as an excellent young creative in Sydney for Betty Makin Youth Awards (2019)
People’s Choice Award: winner of people’s choice for short play Just Regular People at Short+Sweet Festival (2019).
WORKS
GAG REFLEX
Lesbian Monster Fucking can only take you so far…
A a group of sexually inexperienced girls in their final year of high school must unpack their ideas on sex and selfhood when they inadvertently become creators of explicit content that goes viral. “GAG REFLEX” (theatre) will have an initial development residency supported by La Mama (2025 - forthcoming).
Mutual Obligations
You all ready? ‘cause I’m gonna fuck up. Real bad. By my standards too so I mean really bad. And I need you to stay on my side, right? Right. Ok, so firstly… we’re fucking late!
A stage adaptation of Run Lola Run based on the experience of a young person in Australia who is on the DSP. “Mutual Obligations” (theatre/experimental) was supported in initial development by Australian Plays Transform and La Mama in their Writing Pathways Intensive (2024), and will be supported by Darebin Arts in their Speakeasy Residency Program (2025 - forthcoming).
SLUTNIK™ 3: The Intergalactic Retribution of Virgin Mary
I always thought the deep black held some sort of secret to be unlocked. It shaped itself like something to be consumed or felt or changed by.
The third instalment in the SLUTNIK™ series is a sci-fi thriller that features an elite team of engineers who must investigate strange occurrences aboard the ship. “SLUTNIK™ 3” (theatre) had an initial development supported by the University of Melbourne (2021), then a residency supported by the City of Melbourne (2025).
if i could catch it i can take it
i would i can take it
Lacrimosa is Latin for ‘weeping/tearful’. “i can take it” (poetry) is published in Vellichor Literary Magazine’s Issue 4: Lacrimosa (2025).
Feminine interests are not a monolith!
A couple doesn’t do Couples Therapy. “This One’s for Orna” (short play) was written and staged in 24 hours during The Festival of the Unseen produced by Antipodes Theatre and Salty Theatre (2025).
On Youtube. CHANNELLED MESSAGES FROM YOUR NEXT LOVE. It’s all bullshit. I watch all 3 hours and take notes on my phone.
AI and ML meet queerness. “October” (short story) is a published finalist in The Pearl Prize supported by Osborne and Fawkner Publishing & Midsumma Festival (2025).
She began to let herself drift off into the night so that her body, performing a version of herself and Mother and neither, could take over.
Isolated orphans look to the undead for parenting. “The Inheritance” (short story) is published within CREATurE Issue 2: Parasite (2024).
…you will never know in the way you want to. Only stand barefoot in the dirt and let the sound of life swallow you.
Written on and inspired by time on Yorta Yorta Country. “The World Is Music” (prose) is published in Humana Obscura: Issue 8 (2024).
The only thing you can think to do is to go down and rummage in her pockets for cash. Why would you think that? It’s not a woman down there, think it and it’ll be true, it’s just a bag of fruit.Your face is fresh produce, just like hers. There’s two of you. Two of us.
A minimum-wage customer service worker is haunted by a spectre. “Hauntourism” (short story) placed 2nd in The Marj Wilke Short Story Award by Women Writers Queensland (2023).
You think loosely about writing your shopping list, but the page is now full of words:
[I couldn’t see them from where I was, you’ll have to remember that yourself]
The same sentence, over and over again.
A untitled experimental fiction exploring memory and time. “[untitled]” (manuscript) was highly commended for a Writeability Fellowship (2023).
SUPERNOVA (a SLUTNIK™ story)
Titania hesitates, before quietly, “did they give you a choice?”
You stare at her. Surely she knows MOTHERBOARD can hear them. Surely she knows that the truth doesn’t matter because she’ll get the only version you’re allowed to say anyway. “Of course they did.”
A solitary mechanic is thrust into an covert mission and falls in love for the first time. “SUPERNOVA (a SLUTNIK™ story)” (serial manuscript) debuted online (2023).
This is not a review...it's a Planet of Incels
Earlier drafts ended with a revenge killing spree; MOTHERBOARD repeating history by violently massacring all of the incels, seeing this as the only viable way to keep us safe. Senseless violence begets senseless violence etc. But, over the past year or so, I’ve found several depictions of violence or the lives affected by it to increasingly exasperate me…
A call and response think piece about the staged premier of SLUTNIK™ 2: Planet of the Incels. “This is not a review…it’s a Planet of the Incels” (article) is co-written by Flick and Guy Webster and published with This Is Not a Review (2023).
SLUTNIK™: Planet of the Incels
I respected you, and I got a no, I don’t respect you, I still get a no. You don’t get to do this to me, you’re not allowed to do this to me!
Hundreds of years after liftoff, a member of the SLUTNIK™ crew touches down in an alternate universe where men have been forcibly isolated. “SLUTNIK™ 2: Planet of the Incels” (theatre/experimental) premiered at Theatre Works (2023).
It is an act of defiant hope to implement community in spaces you have traditionally found isolating - whether that be in big ways or small.
A personal look into praxis and accessibility. “Access and excellence” (article) was commissioned by the Youth Disability Advocacy Service for their Disability Pride series and published online (2023).
You want to leave. Build a ship and fucking leave. You build and build and build. First the anger, then the courage, then the mother fucking ship.
A group of ex-NASA lesbians decide to escape planet Earth, vowing to find a planet less hostile to female bodies. “SLUTNIK™” (theatre/experimental) premiered at Midsumma Festival in (2022), then remounted at Melbourne Fringe (2022), and again at Adelaide Fringe (2023).
Blackout (2007)
Are you both seeing this too? Is the new first sign of grief hallucinating? This is the worst fucking night of my life… You know what I’m thinking? GHB
Three women in a club bathroom find themselves teleported into an alien-like ship… or is it the home base of a new age cult? “Blackout (2007)” (short play) is co-written by Flick, Callum Mackay & Sarah Carroll and presented by Dollhouse Collective for an online season (2021).
My panic feels like gravity has disappeared even though that’s not how gravity works, but as long as I have help to feel compressed then I can wait until it passes without floating away.
A school girl remembers an awkward turn of phrase and a sleepover gone wrong. Commissioned by ATYP and Nightingale Content during their RoomWorks program, “Compression” (monologue) premiered during an online event (2020).
Other writing includes:
BITCHCRAFT [STAGE - CHORAL WORK]
2022 Theatre Works: She Writes Collective Program, VIC
Apartment 348 [STAGE]
2019 Online - Queerspace Arts: commission, NSW
Performance Review [STAGE - SHORT PLAY]
2019 Broadwater Mainstage - Brisk Theatre Festival, Los Angeles CA
Just Regular People [STAGE - SHORT PLAY]
2019 Tom Mann Theatre - Short+Sweet Festival, NSW