Books
- What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.
Essays & Reviews
- ‘Surfing with Seabirds’ in Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ), Vol 9. Forthcoming in 2022.
- The Ocean Sounds Like a Motorway in Island Australian Nature Writing Project, published in June 2022.
- The Sea in our Bodies: writing in/with/from the Intertidal Zone in Text Journal of Writing and Writing Courses special edition ‘Surfing and Creative Writing’ published in November 2021.
- ‘Achiltibuie un(re)visited’ published in Causeway/Cabhsair: A Magazine of Irish and Scottish Writing in May 2021.
- ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.
- The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018.
- Turning moments into hours, months and centuries: a review of Robert Dessaix’s Pleasures of Leisure, published in The Lifted Brow Review of Books in September 2017.
- Reading Ferrante: a masterclass in storytelling published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in September 2016.
- Postcards from Surfers: 30 years on published by Meanjin in November 2015.
- Not dead yet published in the Overland online magazine in July 2015.
- Lost and found in America: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild first published in Kill Your Darlings 21, April 2015.
- The business of writing: what to tell your students published in the Overland online magazine in August 2014.
- Review of Boy, Lost published in the Australian Women’s Book Review in July 2014.
- Dreams, ambitions, realities: writing for work and writing for play published in The Emerging Writer in May 2013.
- Review of Just Kids published by Stilts in July 2012.
Profiles, features & travel writing
- Gold Coast Australia: World’s Greatest Places 2021 in Time Magazine July 2021.
- An introductory guide to snacks and street food in China published on intrepid.com in July 2019.
- What to expect while you’re travelling by train in China published on intrepid.com in July 2019.
- The World Nomad Games looks like ‘Game of Thrones’ come to life published on fodors.com in August 2018.
- What it’s really like to visit Kyrgyzstan, land of the nomads published on intrepid.com in March 2018.
- ‘Way of the Nomad’, a profile of nomadic vet Dr Campbell ‘Cozy’ Costello, published in QWeekend, the weekend magazine of The Courier-Mail in March 2017.
- Travel articles ‘Take a bow, Bowen’, ‘Animal Attraction’ and ‘Whale Watch’, published in Detour, the official Greyhound publication, in July 2012.
- Travel article ‘Australia’s best summer music festivals’ published on NineMSN website in December 2010.
- Feature article ‘Looking forward to life after school’ published in Sydney Medical School magazine Radius in November 2010.
- Travel feature ‘Two to tango’, about tango dancing in Buenos Aires, published in Australian Marie Claire February 2007.