Let's Talk
I am available to:

  • Facilitate writers workshops

  • Facilitate podcasting workshops

  • Participate in arts programming

  • Write sensitivity reports on trans and gender diverse topics

  • Consult on anti-discrimination policies and procedures

  • Speak on community arts panels



Please contact me via email at:
spillingthetcollective@gmail.com

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Highly Commended
Kill Yours Darlings New Critic
2023
Winner
Griffith Review Online Contributor Series
2023
Shortlist
Hardie Grant Spark Prize
2022
Winner
Scribe Varuna Fellowship
2022
Winner
ABC Homespun Storytelling Competition
2021
Winner
Transdemic: Excellence in LGBTIQA+ Media Reporting at the GLOBE Awards
2021
Shortlist
Deborah Cass Prize
2021
Finalist
Audio Originals Writing Competition for Transgender Warriors
2020
Shortlist
The Ada's Biographical Writing Prize, Williamstown Writers Festival
2020
Winner
Australian Society of Authors, Award Mentorship
2020
Finalist
Westfield Local Hero for Transgender Warriors
2020
Finalist
The Joanne Burns Microlit Awards
2020
Winner
Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship
2019
Finalist
LGBTIQ Outstanding Short Stories
2016
TERF wars and neo-Nazis (2023)
Last Saturday, March 18, 2023, opposing rallies met outside Parliament House in Melbourne. They were ragtag bunches of loosely aligned people, the groups split into two by dozens of police officers......See More
7am Podcast -TERF Wars (2023)
I appeared on the 7am podcast discussing the woman who calls herself Posie Parker and why Australia is importing anti-trans activists....See More
New Newsletter, Who Dis? (2023)
Sign up to my substack here to get regular updates: https://samhellkin.substack.com/...See More
Beware the Funky Murals: Artwashing the Suburbs (2023)
A HIP PINK and teal mural appeared outside the St Albans Woolworths in Melbourne’s outer north-west recently. In the image a young woman in a patterned headscarf and sneakers squats by a small child, perhaps her daughter, as they separate organic from recyclable waste... ...See More
Crossing Time: ABC History Listen (2023)
In the last few decades, there has been a huge social transformation in the way people express and talk about gender......See More
Trans Histories and the Legacy of Jack Jorgensen (2023)
In a moment of growing backlash towards the transgender community, I’ve been drawn to the history books. The story of a Victorian man whose death in 1893 became a sensationalised headline reminds us that gender non-conforming people have always been here....See More