Meg’s essays and journalism have appeared in major news outlets and literary journals, including The Guardian, The Monthly, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Australian, New Matilda, Australian Financial Review, Meanjin, Overland, Eureka Street, Dumbo Feather, The Sick Times (New York), The Spin (NZ) and Cordite Poetry Review.
After migrating from New Zealand to Australia in the late 1990s, Meg spent almost five years as staff writer and deputy editor at The Big Issue Australia, where she specialised in covering social issues. Since then she has published news, opinion, features and essays on a huge range of topics — from work, mortality, homelessness, sexuality and surveillance, to the arts, architecture and the environment.
SELECT ARTICLES
- Darkness in Miniature: Microbats The Monthly
- How to Avoid Becoming Homeless Big Thinkers
- The Burning World: Black Summer Bushfires The Spinoff
- Tomorrow People Dumbo Feather
- Dirty Work: The Secretive Business of Immigration Detention Eureka Street
- Homeless in Melbourne: ‘One Small Act of Kindness Can change a Person’s Day’ The Guardian
- Homeless Law is Misguided, Dangerous and Doomed to Fail The Sydney Morning Herald
- Duck for Cover Overland
- Recalling the Poet: Childhood Memories of Sam Hunt Cordite Poetry Review