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Books by Australian poet Colleen Moyne

The written record

Two collections, over 50 anthologies worldwide, and a body of short fiction that runs from the gentle to the decidedly not.

Cover of Called to Coddiwomple by Colleen Moyne: a white campervan parked on a red dirt road stretching to the horizon under a wide blue sky.

Called to Coddiwomple

A memoir in poetry and prose

Ginninderra Press · 2023 · Paperback · 84 pages · ISBN 9781761095528

Called to Coddiwomple follows Colleen through memories of family and country South Australia to the beginning of her nomadic life in her campervan, Trevor.

It moves between memory and the present tense of travel: family, country childhoods, ageing, change, self-discovery, and the particular clarity that arrives when you have sold most of what you own and pointed the van at the horizon.

It is, in the end, a book about coming of age at every age — and about learning to write the truest version of a thing rather than the tidiest one.

Cover of Time Like Coins by Colleen Moyne: an antique pocket watch resting on a scattered pile of old coins.

Time Like Coins

Poems

Ginninderra Press · 2018 · Paperback · ISBN 9781760416690

Colleen’s first solo poetry collection, published by Ginninderra Press at the end of 2018 and later nominated for an Anne Elder Award.

The poems turn a patient eye on memory, loss, nature, family and ageing — on the small details that give a life its shape. There is warmth here, and honesty, and a good deal of quiet play.

Coming

Van Life Stories

Working title

New stories are taking shape on the road. Van Life Stories draws on Colleen’s travels around Australia and Tasmania: the places she has pulled up for the night, the people met along the way, the unexpected moments, and the quiet observations that live between destinations.

Life with Trevor the campervan, and Winter the greyhound, runs through all of it.

Van Life Stories is a working title. Publisher, cover and release date are still to come — the best way to hear first is to get in touch.

Crime & horror

The darker work

Alongside the poetry and the travel writing there is a steady line of crime and horror — short fiction that has been published, anthologised and adapted for audio. It is the same eye for ordinary detail, pointed somewhere colder.

The record

Publications

Poems and short stories in over 50 anthologies worldwide.

2025

  • Forms of Silence — Hush Tales Magazine, Issue 13

2024

  • Positively Up Magazine
  • The Literary Times

2023

  • Paris — Red Penguin Books
  • So Close — Malefic Magazine

2022

  • The Wonders of Winter — Southern Arizona Press
  • Tree Poems — Whispering Willow
  • Work — Pure Slush Books — Lifespan series
  • Echidna Tracks Haiku
  • All Things Periods — Period Power charity anthology

2021

  • Love — Pure Slush Books — Lifespan series
  • Friendship — Pure Slush Books — Lifespan series
  • Growing Up — Pure Slush Books — Lifespan series
  • Birth — Pure Slush Books — Lifespan series
  • The Leaves Fall — Red Penguin Books
  • ’Tis the Seasons — Red Penguin Books
  • The Flower Shop on the Corner — Red Penguin Books
  • Milestones — Ginninderra Press
  • 25 Miles From Here — Pure Slush Books
  • Open Skies Quarterly
  • Plague Invasion — Bunyip Press

2020

  • Lockdown Literature — Culture Cult Press
  • Glow — Truth Serum Press
  • Verdant — Truth Serum Press
  • Indigomania — Truth Serum Press
  • The Tyranny of Bacon — Pure Slush Books
  • The Beautifullest — Pure Slush Books
  • I Protest! Poems of Dissent — Ginninderra Press

2019

  • Mountain Secrets Anthology
  • Tea Tree Gully Poetry Festival Selected Poems
  • Sloth — Pure Slush Books — Seven Deadly Sins series
  • Wrath — Pure Slush Books — Seven Deadly Sins series
  • Envy — Pure Slush Books — Seven Deadly Sins series
  • Pride — Pure Slush Books — Seven Deadly Sins series
  • Platinum Poems
  • Stories My Gay Uncle Told Me
  • Potato Soup Journal

2018

  • Valley Voices Literary Review
  • Voice of Eve Literary Magazine
  • Fairy Tales Twisted Sideways
  • Reflections on Pinery
  • Winged Pods: An Anthology of Hope
  • A Quick Read: One Minute Stories from Around the World
  • Aspiring Writers Winners Anthology

Listen

Audio and podcasts

Work adapted for radio, podcast and audiobook.

  • Tales to Terrify

    Episode 393

    Narrated reading of Colleen’s short fiction.

  • Goddess

    Creepy Podcast · June 2022

    A short horror story adapted for the Creepy podcast. Please note: contains a content warning and may not be suitable for all listeners.

  • Well Versed

    PBA FM

    Audiobook project.

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