Articles & Essays on Writing

Below are a number of websites for access to Catherine's recent and earlier work including poetry, short fiction, essays and reviews. Information about purchasing her books is available on Amazon and Good Reads.

Poetry

• 'Looking for Serge Gainsbourg' & 'Carlton'
• 'Jim Morrison–Père Lachaise'
• 'Leda'
• 'Animal Dreaming'

Short Stories

• 'Dein ist Mein Ganges Hertz'
• 'Home'

Essays

• 'Nam Le's The Boat'
• 'Literary communities: writers' practices and networks'
• 'Learning to Write'
• 'The Third and Fourth Countries'
• 'History and Postmemory in Contemporary Vietnamese Writing'
• 'How the University Workshop Hinders New Writers from Engaging with Ideas and What to do about it'
• 'Teaching James Joyce in the Creative Writing Classroom'
• 'Henry James, Affect and the Writer/Researcher in the Academy'

Reviews

• The Program Era by Mark McGurl
• Konkretion by Marion May Campbell
• Ethical Dilemmas of an Evil World – Bernhard Schlink's Self's Murder
• The Horror of Everyday Evil – Jo Nesbo's The Snowman
• Homecoming and a Hard Climb – Barry Maitland's Bright Air

Current Work & Research

Catherine is currently researching the French / Australian relationship from the time of the French explorer, La Perouse.

Her fiction projects include a short story collection and new novel.