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
Writer, poet and traveller
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 an Australian writer 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.
Questions, signed copies, or a workshop for your group
Colleen answers her own email.