About Tracy

selected publications

• Novel Black Dust Dancing will be published by Wakefield Press in 2008
• ‘The Doctor’s Wife,’ The Advertiser Review Summer Reading, December 2007
• ‘The Plumber,’ Best Australian Stories 2007, November 2007 (originally published in Island 108, 2007)
• ‘Destination: Adelaide,’ Griffith REVIEW, February 2007
• ‘Before birth: a brave new world,’ Eureka Street, September 2005
• ‘I like their early stuff: the Wiggles and the rich list,’ New Matilda, 20 April 2005
• ‘Did you want children with that?’ onlineopinion.com.au, 31 January 2005
• ‘The spirit of things’, Island (99), January 2005
• ‘Scapho is Greek for boat,’ Griffith REVIEW: Making perfect bodies June 2004
• Monthly column for Australian Bookseller & Publisher, March 2001 – June 2004
• 'Whale of a Tale', South Australian Maritime Museum exhibition 2000 (a suite of poems for children)
• 'Antonia's gift,' Puffin New Zealand Storybook, Penguin Books, New Zealand, 1996
• Other articles and reviews have appeared in the Australian Weekend Review, Australian Amateur Boatbuilder, Australian Yoga Life, Viewpoint: on Books for Young Adults and Orana, The Advertiser

comedy

• Stand up for your Rights, Amnesty International benefit, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, October 2007 (later broadcast on the comedy channel)
• Raw National Final, Melbourne Town Hall, April 2007 (later broadcast on ABC TV)
• Green Faces (SA Heat), Irish Club, Canberra, July 2007
• Regular gigs at Adelaide venues, including Rhino Room, PJ O’Brien’s, Balcony Bar, 2007
• Freelance private gigs for schools and TAFEs in Adelaide and regional South Australia, 2007

radio performances and public readings

• Panellist, Reading the Country, Hahndorf Academy, 27 January 2007
• ‘Verity and James’ (short story), Radio Adelaide, 1 September 2007
• Public reading, Lee Marvin readings (curated by Ken Bolton), Adelaide, 23 October 2006, 4 April 2007, August 2007
• Black dust dancing (novel extract), Radio Adelaide, 16 April 2006
• ‘Child soldiers,’ Perspective, Radio National, May 2004
• ‘Mother’s Day and the ‘disappeared’’, Perspective, Radio National, May 2003

awards, grants and festivals

• Arts SA independent artist grant, December 2007
• Blogging workshop, SA Writers’ Festival, September 2007
• Writer in residence, Tasmanian Writers’ Centre Island of Residences, July 2007
• National Finalist, Raw Comedy Competition, April 2007
• South Australian State Finalist, Raw Comedy Competition, March 2007 (placed runner up)
• Manuscript Black Dust Dancing shortlisted, SA Festival Awards for Literature 2006
• Varuna LongLines Masterclass participant, 2005
• Arts SA emerging artists grant, 2004
• Masterclass participant with Ruth Starke, SA Writers' Centre, 2001
• SA Writers’ Centre Mentorship for Emerging Writer with Eleanor Nilsson, 1999
• Varuna Fellowship for new South Australian writers, 1999