The Blog

It's been an incredibly exciting week both participating and speaking at my first international conference. The Ninth International Cure...

I've very pleased to let everyone know the latest issue of my art and writing magazine for incarcerated people, Paper Chained, has now...

With the silly season upon us, perhaps spare a thought for those spending this time of year in prison away from their family. If you'd...

It’s hard to believe its been five and a half years since I first put pen to paper in prison, creating what would become my now published...

A journalist working for Sydney Criminal Lawyers, a law firm that also publishes regular articles relating to the law and criminal...

The prison I was sent to for the majority of my 10-month sentence didn’t even have a fence around it. There were boundaries, of course....

A huge thank you to all the very generous people who have contributed to the current fundraiser for Paper Chained, a journal aimed at...

The third issue of Paper Chained, an annual writing journal aimed at people in or affected by the prison system, has been completed and...

On Monday I was interviewed on 2NUR FM on The Morning Show with Mark Rorke. Pictured is Mark holding a copy of my novel Scarred. If you...

Earlier this week, along with the Justice Action team, I attended a meeting at the office for the Minister for Counter-Terrorism and...

Considering I've been interviewed about having prison pen-pals three times now, I thought it was high time I wrote an article about the...

My good friends over at Justice Action have made a profile for me on their website. Justice Action is a human rights group, focusing on...

Well I did promise there would be more. I wrote my next opinion piece for 10 daily as soon as uni break hit, submitting it the day before...

Well it finally happened. I'm now a paid writer. Following my interview with 10 daily last week, I was asked if I could contribute some...

As you may recall, I was interviewed last year by ABC News and ABC Radio Melbourne regarding the prison pen-pal ban in Victoria. Well it...

Submissions for the third issue of Paper Chained are now open. Paper Chained is a journal of expression for prisoners and ex-prisoners,...

Last November I wrote a post about Bobby Bostic. Earlier last year I read about his case in an article on BBC News. Bobby was sentenced...

Being a parent is never easy, or so all my friends with kids keep telling me :). But imagine being a parent from prison, with extremely...

If you haven't been listening to Ear Hustle, you've been missing out. Ear Hustle is an award winning podcast about life in San Quentin...

The good people over at Running Wild have just released the second issue of Paper Chained, a journal of writings and artistic expressions...