• NSW Speculative Fiction Festival is SOLD OUT!

    I'm so happy to be part of this speculative fiction festival on at the beautiful NSW Writers Centre tomorrow. I'll be talking all things AI and cyborgs with Sean Williams, Krissy Kneen and John…

  • 30th May - Love and Music: Varuna Blue Mountains Sydney Writers' Festival Event with Graeme Simsion and me

    Tuesday 30 May The Carrington Hotel 10:00am - 11:00am @ The Carrington SINS OF THE PAST Award-winning British writer Natalie Haynes’ book The Amber Fury explores a contemporary murder and its…

  • 6th May: Launch of Watch Over Me with Patti Miller at The Carrington Hotel

    Join us Saturday afternoon, May 6, 3-5pm by the fire in the cosy Library at the Carrington Hotel for the launch of WATCH OVER ME, described by Tom Keneally as 'this gem of a novel'. Launching the…

  • 3rd May: Launch of WATCH OVER ME with Tom Keneally

    We would love you to join us at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts in Pitt St, Sydney on Wednesday, 3rd May, 12:30 - 1:30 for a stimulating in conversation with renowned author Tom Keneally as we…

  • British Science Fiction Association - 24 November

    I am so looking forward to this - an interview as a guest of the BSFA in the Artillery Arms. My interviewer is brilliant academic, writer and sometime game designer Dr Colin Harvey. This night will…

  • Readings at Writers Omi and in New York City

    As part of my Writers Omi residency I will be taking part with the other writers in my residency in two readings: one is a reading and Fall BBQ at Writers Omi on Saturday October 18 5pm. This sounds…

  • Australia's Future Submarine

    I've been asked to give a talk on Australia's Future Submarine at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts: 12:30pm on 29th September 2014 at the SMSA building on Pitt St. Update on 2014-09-27 03:02 by…

  • Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Conference 2014

    I'm looking forward to the tomorrow's Master Class as part of the ASAL 2014 Worlds Within Conference. I will be presenting my paper on Peter Carey's short story Do You Love Me? (titled Must Australia…

  • Submarine Conference 2014

    A photo from ASPI's submarine conference - I'm in the middle there between the UK Defence attache to the left and an executive from Northrop Grumman (hidden) on the right and some senior Americans I…

  • Tom and me teaching the Master Class

    at Sydney Mechanic School of Arts, photo taken by my lovely student Irina. This first course has finished but we will probably run another one in August/September.