Portfolio

Travel

Brave New Traveler

-          Can You Face Your Own Nationality Abroad?

-          5 Writers Who Affirm The Importance of Travel

Matador

-          10 Things to do in Europe That will Make You Smarter

-          The 10 Constants of Air Travel

-          Review: Princess with a Backpack by Lauren Resnick 

The Travel Rag

-          The Top Ten Ways to Kill Airport Time

-          Tochi, Worthy of a Book or Ten

Small Lust

-          Lost in Translation – Noise Issue 2

Trespass Magazine

-          If I Have One Piece of Advice for You: Take a Pashmina

-          Heading Back

-          Love, Life and Santorini

-          Rite of Passage: Eating Vegemite in Australia

-          Postcard from: a Coastal Getaway

-          Welcome to Noo Zulund

-          Time Flies When You’re Hanging in an Airport

-          Confessions of an Overpacker

 

Features and Opinion Editorials

Lip Magazine

-          Leaving School

-          Dear Aquarius …

-          Definition via the Other Half 

Grapeshot Magazine

-          Naked Nation

Trespass Magazine

-          Jade Goody: As Real as Reality Television Gets

-          How Could You Do This

-          It’s Okay to be a Green Tomato

-          Look at Me, I’m an Icon

-          It Wasn’t Rape-Rape

-          Speed Sells

-          The A-Z of the Iran Elections

-          Fine Lines and Big Leaps

-         Sell Out, Dumb Down & Get Published

 

Humour

Small Lust –

-          The Shift F7 SyndromeSmall Lust, Words Issue 2

-          A Fear of Bedroom EtymologistsSmall Lust, Words Issue 4

Vibwire.net –

-          To Big Mac or Not to Big Mac 

-          If You Answered All Bs, then you are

Sydney Morning Herald –

-          Celebrity Stench of Poor Nose Jobs

-          Repulsive Things Come in Small Packages -

-          Cosmo’s Survival Guide to the Urban Jungle

-          Enough to Send You Off Your Trolley

Trespass Magazine

-          The Perfect Card

-          Parents and Worst Case Scenarios 

 

The Arts

Vibewire.net

-          Making Opera Cool

-          Why we Need to be Having this Discussion

Trespass Magazine

-          What is Musication? – Trespass Magazine

-          Musication – The Wrap Up – Trespass Magazine

-          Trespassing the French Eccentric - Trespass Magazine

 

Interviews

Lip Magazine

-          On the Way to the Top; Valerie Chain

Trespass Magazine

-          Trespassing With: Tracy Quan

-          Trespassing With: Adhir Kalyan

-          Trespassing With: Julie Schwietert

-          Trespassing With: Mike Rosenberg

-          Trespassing With: Valda Wilson

-          The Least We Can Do

-          Spotlight on: BC Jean

-          Spotlight on: Nylon Pink

-          Spotlight on: Kid Confucius

-          Spotlight on: Andy Bull

-          Introducing Sierra Montana

-          Introducing Ranger Spacey

-          Introducing Ziggie Flax

-          Musication Part 4: The Affairs

-          Musication Part 5: Saving Grace

-          Just Looking at You Makes Me Laugh

 

Reviews

Books

-          Princess with a Backpack by Lauren Resnick Matador Goods

-          Lines of Wisdom - Trespass Magazine

-          The Slow Guides; Sydney & Melbourne - Trespass Magazine

-          Monster of Florence - Trespass Magazine

-          The Book of Rapture by Nikki Gemmel – Trespass Magazine

Film

-          Bandslam Trespass Magazine

-          The Taking of Pelham 123 – Trespass Magazine

-          Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – Trespass Magazine

-          The Hangover – Trespass Magazine

Music

-          Watch This Space; Andy Bull Vibewire.net

-          Gig Review: Saving Grace, The Affairs and Mushu at Slide – Trespass Magazine

 

Beauty

Archives for all Trespass Magazine beauty articles and reviews, here.

Pride, Prejudice and Perfume columns Trespass Magazine

-          Welcome

-          Celebrity Scents

-          Eau de Bombshell

-          Scents for Events

-          Mood Boosters

-          Nouveau Parfum

-          New Scent for a New Season

-          Colonia Dulce

-          Spring Scents

Perfume; A Tale of Love, Lust and Lasciviousness – Sprout Magazine

-          Perfume; A Tale of Love, Lust and Lasciviousness - Issue 1

-          The First Ladies of Fragrance - Issue 2 

 


Entertainment/Celebrity

Dish It on Trespass – an opinionated column, dissecting the biggest stories in entertainment.

-          A Suitable Dress

-          The Public Who Knew Too Much

-          Please Leave Your Comments Below

-          Not so gaga over Gaga?

-          From the Kitchen to the Playground

-          Reality Bites

-          A Bewildered Narcissist

-          Larger than Life

-          A Babushka Doll of Weirdness

-          Throwing Money at Mediocrity

-          The Dark Ages of Television

-          The Twiggy that Broke the Camel’s Back

-          When Women Bash Women

-          The Naked Truth

-          Saying Somethin’ Stupid

-          Not a Big Deal

-          Ask the Experts

-          Dress Your Age

-          I’m a Fat Mummy. You?

-         Parental Guidance Recommended

 

Photography

-          The Replenishing Summer – Grapeshot Magazine

-          Oia’s Vignette – Grapeshot Magazine

-          Musication  - FasterLouder.com.au

-          Photo Album: New Zealand Trespass Magazine

-          Photo Album: Athens – Trespass Magazine

-          Photo Album: Bologna – Trespass Magazine

-          Photo Album: Muenster – Trespass Magazine

Articles featured in …

Travel –

-          Tochi – Worthy of a Book or Ten – Travel Rag

-          Love, Life and Santorini – Trespass Magazine

-          Postcard from Pierre Gagnaire – Trespass Magazine

-          24 Hours in Venice Trespass Magazine

-          Postcard from a Coastal Getaway –Trespass Magazine

Beauty

-          Technicolour Lips – Trespass Magazine

-          Dig In; Edible Beauty - Trespass Magazine

-          A Berry Winter Glow – Trespass Magazine

-          Product Review: Endota Spa Rosehip Oil – Trespass Magazine

-          Pride, Prejudice and Perfume; New Scent for a New Season – Trespass Magazine

 

Creative Writing

Courses & Qualifications

  • Master of Arts in Creative Writing - Macquarie University
  • Unlocking Creativity – The Writers Studio

Editing

  • Managing Editor, Create – Vibewire.net

Awards

  • Metroscreen’s Play Now Act Now

Olivia’s story, Shortcut was selected as the winning piece for the Creative Writing section of Metroscreen’s Play Now Act Now competition. Play Now Act Now encourages artists and writers to address the issues of drugs, alcohol and young people, in the creative medium of their choice.

  • Emerging Writers Festival 2008

Olivia was selected as a runner up in the Reading Room Competition, part of the Emerging Young Writer’s Festival 2008. See her piece, Eye Love Sydney, at www.artshub.com.au

 Editing & Copywriting

Copywriting

  • CSR
  • Pacific Opera
  • Bear & Duck
  • Sassi Sam
  • mimi&me
  • Ruby’s Closet
  • Wentworth Travel

Editing

As an editor, Olivia worked with Vibewire.net as Managing Editor for its Create section (short fiction and poetry) providing a platform for emerging writers to publish their creative work. She is a Founding Editor and current Editor in Chief of Trespass Magazine.