Journal & Newspaper articles w/Reviews 2000-2008

“Scene Stealers”
An article about literary borrowings and my novel With The Tiger
Review, The Weekend Australian, July 1-2, 2006, page 2
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“At last a job”
Getting Smart: the battle over ideas in education, Griffith Review 11, Feb 2006, ABC Books.
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*An abbreviated version of “At last a job” was published as “Just a casual, but with a weighty workload” in the Higher Education supplement of The Australian February 8, 2006 p 32-33

“Surprise Us”
Review of Kevin Brophy’s Explorations in Creative Writing. Coppertales: a Journal of Rural Arts. No. 10 2006 p90-91
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“It’s the other who makes my portrait: Writing self, character and the other”
TEXT Vol 8 No. 2 October 2004
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“Multiculturalism, globalisation and worldliness: origin and destination of the text”
JASAL (Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature) Vol. 3 2004
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“Writing, standing on your head”
Griffith Review, Winter 2004, p.245-249

“Not such bitter dreams”
The publication of Neem Dreams in India.
Australian Author Volume 34, Number 1, April 2002:p.10-16

“Fraught Territory”
Meanjin, Papua New Guinea Issue, Volume 62, number 3, 2003: p.223-229

“Sun Square Moon: Discovering Neem; Mr Ketkar”
LiNQ, Volume 29, No 2, 2002: p.74-82

“The meaning of India : Early travels”
Southerly, Volume 62, Number 1, 2002: p.152-160

“Paralipsis: money drugs and sex”
TEXT Vol 6 No 1 April 2002
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“Acting Up: the new activism”
Australian writers respond to the refugee issue.
Australian Author Volume 34, Number 1, April 2002:p.10-16

“Indian Specific: Letter from Madras”
Australian Author Volume 33, Number 2, August 2001: p34

“Mastered: Writing by Degrees”
Creative writing in universities
Australian Author Volume 32, Number 3, April 2000: p10-15

Fiction and Essays

“Party Girl”
Wet Ink Magazine Issue 9 December 2007
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“Adventures in Self-Publishing.”
Arts of Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond. Eds Lucy Neave, James Connor and Amanda Crawford. Melbourne: ASP, 2007, pp 178-190

“Six texts prefigure a seventh”
Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy G. Harper & J. Kroll (eds.) Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2007
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“Your Guru is Your Practice”
Iyengar The Yoga Master (volume of writings dedicated to BKS Iyengar) edited by Kofi Busia (Shambala 2007)
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“Three Mythic Moments in the life of family and friendship”
Confessions & Memoirs M. Wilding and D. Myers, eds., CQUP (Outback Books) 2006
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“Freshening the mind: an account of teaching a three-week creative writing course in India”
Creative Writing : Theory Beyond Practice Krauth and Brady (eds). Post Pressed 2006
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“Strangest Journeys: Bali”
Travellers Tales M. Wilding and D. Myers, eds., CQUP (Outback Books) 2005
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“Aspects of Two Novels: Neem Dreams and A Passage to India”
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“My Transylvanian Cousin”
Best Stories Under the Sun M Wilding and D Myers, eds., CQUP (Outback Books), 2004
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“Cheap Revenge”
Dick for a Day (Fiona Giles, ed., Villard New York 1997; Random House Sydney, 1997; Villard London 1998)
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“Heathcliff and Me”
LiNQ (JCU, Vol.22 No.2,1995)
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“Beautiful One Day”
Paradise to Paranoia (Nigel Krauth & Robyn Sheahan, eds., UQP 1995)

“Babe, Babe and Babe”
Unpublished, 1995
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“The child”
Voices (National Library of Australia) Spring 1996)

“Writing Sexuality”
Australian Feminist Studies (No.20, 1994)