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Local Availability: Wellington and surrounding areas; I'm also in Auckland regularly.
Media Experience
Biographical Note
If it’s words you want written or polished, look no further.
An award-winning feature writer, I was on staff at North & South magazine for three-and-a-half years (2004-2007), and have since freelanced for 20 New Zealand magazines (both stand-alone and newspaper-insert magazines) and the occasional newspaper. My main publications are North & South, NZ House & Garden, the Herald on Sunday's View magazine, the Reader's Digest, Next, and the Weekend Herald's Canvas magazine.
While I’m naturally drawn to the arts, profiles and social issues, I’ve written hundreds of stories spanning long-form science and business writing through to book, film and TV reviews. I can tackle any subject and have interviewed everyone from Dame Helen Mirren to sick children.
A highly motivated go-getter who takes initiative and thinks laterally, I’m skilled at adapting my many ideas, style and tone to any publication and readership, while still maintaining a strong voice. My top-notch time-management and organisational skills see me easily switch between different stories and projects, always meeting deadlines and other commitments.
I have experience as an editor, proof-reader, subeditor, media coordinator, press-release writer and advertorial writer - and the confidence, determination and drive to tackle and succeed at any project or role.
My awards and nominations are as follows:
The Magazine Awards 2011: Journalist of the Year (Lifestyle) finalist
The Magazine Awards 2011: Journalist of the Year (Home, Food & Garden) finalist
The Magazine Awards 2010: Journalist of the Year (Women’s Interest) finalist
2008 Qantas Media Awards: Science and Technology winner
2008 Qantas Media Awards: Junior Magazine Feature Writer finalist
2008 Statistics New Zealand Journalism Award (for a co-written story)
2007 Qantas Media Awards: Human Relations winner
2007 Media Peace Awards finalist
Simply email me to find out about my rates, and to see my CV and samples of my work.
Published Writings
All stories published in New Zealand.
1. Crime Seen - a story on internationally-recognised forensic scientist Dr John Buckleton and his work, published in North & South magazine in August 2007. This story won the 2008 Qantas Media Award for Science and Technology.
2. Dr Orgasm - a story on the controversy surrounding a grant made to Dr Annamarie Jagose for her research on orgasm, published in North & South magazine in December 2006. This story won the 2007 Qantas Media Award for Human Relations.
3. O Kaye - a story on Kaye Parker and the charity Cure Kids, published in North & South magazine in June 2007. This story was a finalist in the 2007 Media Peace Awards.
4. New Zealand’s Most Trusted –a cover story on the most trusted New Zealanders, published in the Reader’s Digest NZ in July 2010.
5. Force of Nature – a cover story on Dame Helen Mirren and her movie The Last Station, published in the Herald on Sunday’s View magazine on May 30 2010.
6. Great Southern Man – a cover story on Marcus Lush, published in the Herald on Sunday’s View magazine on August 16 2009.
7. The Folks Next Door – a story on our increasing alienation from our neighbours, published in the Sunday Star-Times’ Sunday magazine on June 7 2009.
8. Daring to Win – a cover story on NZ celebrity Lana Coc-Kroft, published in Next magazine, January 2009.
9. What's Eating Us? - a cover story on unhealthy relationships with food, published in the Weekend Herald's Canvas magazine, August 16 2008.
10. A Letter to My Father – a story on my father, his life, his death and my grief, published in North & South in September 2011.
Contact Details
Wellington, New Zealand
Ph: 027 203 1201
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