Presentations
2021
Blackball Readers and Writers Festival, June
2020
Queenstown Writers Festival, November
Word Festival Pop-up Festival, October
2018
Word Festival Pop-up Festival, July
Word Festival, July 2018
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
‘Writing as catharsis’, Research Month, CPIT, Christchurch, New Zealand
2012 & 2011
‘Parental bereavement’, to a class of Medical Imaging students, CPIT, Christchurch, New Zealand
2011
‘From PhD to book publication’, Creativity and Research Forum, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia, April 4
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
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
2008
PhD Candidature Confirmation Seminar, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia, November 7
2000
Women Writers Spring Festival, Christchurch, New Zealand
1995
Academia da Letres e Artes de Uberlândia, Brazil
1994
Listener Women’s Literature Festival, Christchurch, New Zealand, Christchurch Bookfest, New Zealand
International Feminist Book Fair, Melbourne, Australia
Listener Women’s Literature Festival, Christchurch, New Zealand