Essays / Articles
2024
The language of grief (Truth Serum Press, Loss Anthology, February)
2022
The Stone, (100 voices ,Unbound Books, March )
2021
I'll get back to you (New World Writing, September)
2020
Love - Omani style (The Blue Nib, August)
Leave it with me, I'm working on it (The Blue Nib, May)
Writing 'The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell' (Flash Frontier, May)
A writing trajectory (The Blue Nib, April)
Where goats climb trees (The Blue Nib, April)
Giving words to sorrow (The Blue Nib, March)
Retrieving lost words (The Blue Nib, March)
2019
The Meeting of Tahr Minds (The Blue Nib, September)
Writing Soul Etchings (TSS Publishing, July)
Dawn Trek in Wahiba (The Blue Nib, June)
When the bird hatched (Takahe 95, April)
2018
The Frankincense Trail (Corpus) July
The Stone (100 voices for 100 years) May
Do it in a Flash (The Short Story) April
The Stone (Corpus, Medical Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 5 March)
Moments of Magnitude (Corpus, Medical Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 19 February)
2017
I’ll get back to you (Connotation Press, November)
The language of grief (Corpus, Medical Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 15 May)
Narrative Voice (Headland 8, New Zealand, January)
2016
Giving sorrow words (Atlas Medical Literary Journal, New Zealand, July)
2015
Reflections on Waterfall Bay (Landfall 229, New Zealand, May)
2012
Moments of magnitude: the Christchurch earthquake (Social Alternatives, Vol 32, no 3, October, Disaster dialogues: Representations of catastrophe in word and image. University of the Sunshine Coast, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Queensland, Australia)
Sing no sad songs (New Zealand Society of Authors Journal, issue 285, Feb/March)
2009
On the frankincense trail (NEXT, New Zealand, October)
Without her ( NEXT, New Zealand, January)
2006
Giving sorrow words (Booknotes: The Journal of the New Zealand Book Council, New Zealand)
1999
Brazil’s great divide (Christchurch Press, New Zealand, May)
From the Virgin Mary to Iemanja (Christchurch Press, New Zealand, May)
1996
Country without a memory (Quote Unquote, New Zealand, January)
1995
An awful lot of culture in Brazil (New Zealand Author, New Zealand)
1994
Imagining murder and menace (New Zealand Books, New Zealand)
International Feminist Book Fair (Quote Unquote, New Zealand)
1987
Manic-depression (Christchurch Press, New Zealand)
1986
Two travel articles on Turkey (Insight Magazine, New Zealand, 1986)
1985
Series of six travel articles on Turkey (Christchurch Press, New Zealand)