Writing
Essays
Mrs Chippy - The Spinoff, February 2024
The Big Snow: Christchurch 1992 - The Spinoff, October 2022
Letter from Dadland - The Spinoff, September 2022
The Cold Beneath the House - North & South, June 2022
This Old House - North & South, March 2022
Dear Henry - Sunday Star Times, January 2022
Christmas Baby - Newsroom, December 2021
The winter wonder land - The Spinoff, May 2021
Bosker Days - North & South, April 2021
The agapanthus city - The Spinoff, February 2021
The life of names - Verb Wellington, September 2020
Uncle Llew - Newsroom, August 2020
A short history of the New Zealand jersey - The Spinoff , May 2020
Man reads The Plague during the plague - Newsroom, April 2020
There used to be ghosts in New Zealand - Newsroom, February 2020
Days of sugar and ice - The Spinoff, February 2020
A light left burning in Eketahuna - North & South, February 2020
The works - North & South, April, 2019
The people’s cup - The Spinoff, May 2019
A white man’s fantasy - and sad reality - of living alone on a Cook Islands atoll - The Spinoff, February 2019
The house that Norm built - North & South, July 2018
Inside the Surrey Hotel - The Spinoff, June 2018
Notes on macrocarpa - Turbine, 2018
Temperament - North & South, December 2017
One night with you - The Spinoff, September 2017
The Commercial Hotel - Sport 44, 2016
A road trip, a chihuahua and Antiques Roadshow - The Spinoff, July 2016
Real Life - Sport 42, 2015
Fiction
Baby - Newsroom, April 2023
Curator - Newsroom, May 2021
Pagans - Landfall, Spring 2018
Own shadow - Sport 45, 2017
Rata Terrace - Landfall, Spring 2016
Reviews
The subtle and tremendously self-serving art of not giving a fuck - The Spinoff, June 2018
Go outside and play: an ode to the joys of tramping - The Spinoff, January 2017
A glimpse at the workings - The Pantograph Punch, October 2017
Great New Zealand non-fiction - The Pantograph Punch, December 2016
A working class hero is something to be - The Spinoff, January 2016
Travel writing
On the line - North & South, January 2023
The communists’ last stand - NZ Herald, October 2014
Mao and me - Listener, October 2013
The road to Mandalay - Listener, October 2013
Curse of the cave mummies - NZ Herald, August 2013
Slessor’s Sydney - Listener, June 2012
Malaysia’s Batu Caves home to temples and monkeys - Listener, September 2011
Houses of the Hakka - Listener, March 2011
Slow train in China - Listener, April 2008
Pool party - Listener, January 2007