Presentations
2021
Blackball Readers and Writers Festival, June
2020
Queenstown Writers Festival, November
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Word Festival Pop-up Festival, October
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2018
Word Festival Pop-up Festival, July
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Word Festival, July 2018
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2012
‘The grief that does not speak: Writing about parental bereavement’. Death Studies Conference, Death Down Under,
28 – 29 June, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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‘Writing as catharsis’, Research Month, CPIT, Christchurch, New Zealand
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2012 & 2011
‘Parental bereavement’, to a class of Medical Imaging students, CPIT, Christchurch, New Zealand
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2011
‘From PhD to book publication’, Creativity and Research Forum, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia, April 4
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2010
‘The creative and cathartic power of fiction’, The Australasian Association of Writing Programmes 15th annual conference: The role of literary studies in creative writing programmes, November, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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2009
‘Writing about the spiritual side of grieving’, The Australasian Association of Writing Programmes 14th annual conference, Margins and Mainstream, November, WINTEC, Hamilton, New Zealand
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2008
PhD Candidature Confirmation Seminar, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia, November 7
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2000
Women Writers Spring Festival, Christchurch, New Zealand
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1995
Academia da Letres e Artes de Uberlândia, Brazil
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1994
Listener Women’s Literature Festival, Christchurch, New Zealand, Christchurch Bookfest, New Zealand
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International Feminist Book Fair, Melbourne, Australia
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Listener Women’s Literature Festival, Christchurch, New Zealand
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