Collected essays

Invisible Mending (A Disintegrated Essay) was co-authored with Peta Murray, and published in Speculative Nonfiction on June 25, 2020.

Refresh; new update was published in Sydney Review of Books on May 9, 2020.

The Intoxicating Other Worlds of the Encyclopedia was published on Literary Hub on August 13, 2019.

The Historian was published in the Meanjin Quarterly, Spring 2019.

Preparations for Thinking Slow was published on Terrain.org on May 30, 2019.

The Essay in the Anthropocene: Towards Entangled Nonfiction was published in TEXT (Special Issue 39) in April 2019.

Love Lane (the work of writing) won the Patricia Hackett Prize and was published in Westerly 63.1, in 2018.

The Biological Station was published in Hunger Mountain Review in 2018. It was awarded Runner-up for their 2018 Hunger Mountain Review Creative Nonfiction Prize.

Fieldwork was published in Sydney Review of Books on October 2, 2018.

Essaying as method: Risky accounts and composing collectives was published in TEXT on April 2018.

The Train that Night was published on Terrain.org on December 5, 2017.

Lyrebirds in the Impasse was shortlisted for The Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Nonfiction and published in the Sydney Review of Books on July 25, 2017.

On the essay, big and small was published in Essay Daily on June 13, 2016.

This Essay is Good for my KPIs* was published in the Griffith Review, Edition 52, 2016.

Making Up: 11 Scenes from a Bangkok Hotel is an experimental radiophonic essay produced in collaboration with sound designer and documentarian Kyla Brettle. It won two Gold Awards for Best Writing and Best Sound, and two Silver Awards for Best Directing and Best Documentary, Arts and Culture, at the New York Festivals Radio Awards in 2016. It was commissioned by ABC Radio National and broadcast on December 4, 2015.

OK, Nicole, thanks for asking was published in Essay Daily on July 27, 2015.

The Bronzista of Muradup was published in the Griffith Review, Edition 48, January 2015.

Scenes from a Radical Theatre was published in Overland, edition 209 in Summer 2012.

The True History of the Circus was published in the Griffith Review, ‘33, 2011.

by David Carlin