Publications

Novels

Burnt Out (2022) (Sydney: HarperCollins). Print, ebook, audiobook, RHYW.

Non-fiction

‘Rising from the Ashes’ on HarperCollins.com.au (7 Jan 2022, republished.) Web.

‘Fiction in the Line of Fire’ in The Sunday Telegraph (2 Jan 2022)Print.

‘In Defence of ‘Women’s Fiction’’ (15 Dec 2021) on HarperCollins.com.au. Web.

‘The Summer Holidays That Never Were’ in The Beagle (28/2/20, republished). Web.

Poetry/Short Stories

‘king st ’05’ in flash cove, issue 11, 2020. Print.

‘Big Burn’ and ‘Spanish Steps’ in Rochford Street Review, issue 28, 2020. Web.

‘resistance in 10 parts’ in Cordite Poetry Review, no. 93, Nov 2019. Web.

‘Here was one’ in The Quarry, March 2015. Web.

‘Sunshine’ in Sandstone, 2010. (Sydney: Sydney University Press). Print.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Brookman, V., ‘Mothering and Resistance in Fallon’s Paydirt and Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby’ in Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, vol. 10, issues 1 & 2 (Spring/Fall 2019). Print & Web.

Messer, J., and Brookman, V., ‘Reconciliation Dialogues: Kathleen Mary Fallon’s Paydirt, and Narratives of Mothering’ in Australian Humanities Review, issue 63 (Nov. 2018). Web.

Book reviews

‘Australian Literature Review: The Fragments by Toni Jordan’ in SEARCH News (2019)

‘Read, resist: A review of Too Much Lip and The Death of Noah Glass in SEARCH News (2019)

”LOOK AT ME’ – Book Review’ in SEARCH News (2018)

‘Review: The Bell in the Lake’ in SEARCH News (March 2020, republished)

Academic research theses (unpublished)

‘Commodified Bodies and Absent Communities: Maternal and Economic Demands in Atwood, Morrison, Shriver, Fallon and Syal; and a novel extract: Wrapped’. (2016).

‘She Hushes Herself: The Liberation of Sara Teasdale by New York City.’ (2010).