Called to Coddiwomple
A memoir in poetry and prose
Ginninderra Press · 2023 · Paperback
Part memoir, part poetry collection — the story of leaving a settled life and learning to write from the heart of the road.
Colleen Moyne
Australian author, poet and traveller
South Australian author
Poetry was the first love, and it has stayed. The rest — memoir, travel writing, short fiction, crime and horror — arrived along the way, mostly while moving.
The latest book
Called to Coddiwomple
A memoir in poetry and prose
Part memoir, part poetry collection — the story of leaving a settled life and learning to write from the heart of the road.
Ginninderra Press · 2023 · 84 pages
The books
View allTwo collections so far, both from Ginninderra Press, and a third taking shape on the road.
Time Like Coins
Poems
Ginninderra Press · 2018 · Paperback
A first solo collection that finds the extraordinary sitting quietly inside ordinary days.
Van Life Stories
Working title
Coming — working title
New writing taking shape on the road — the places, the people, and the long quiet in between.
A writer at large
Colleen Moyne is a South Australian author and poet who lives and travels full-time in a campervan called Trevor, with a greyhound called Winter.
Her poems and stories have appeared in over 50 anthologies worldwide, and her work has been adapted for radio and audio. She writes across a genuinely wide range — the warmth of memoir and travel writing on one hand, crime and horror on the other — and teaches writing to adults and children when the road allows.
coddiwomple
verb · cod·di·wom·ple
to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination
Which is, more or less, the plan.
Taking shape
Van Life Stories
a working title
New writing drawn from the roads around Australia and Tasmania — the places, the people met along the way, and the long quiet in between.
Cover to come
Postcards from the road
A few photographs from the travelling life — Trevor, Winter, and the places the van has pulled up along the way.
Along the way
Follow the journey on Facebook
Launches, readings, anthology news and postcards from wherever Trevor has pulled up — Colleen shares it all on her writer page as it happens.
Latest from the road, straight from the page.
Questions, signed copies, or a workshop for your group
Colleen answers her own email.