Screenwriting
Kaitlyn is a recent graduate of the 2022 First Break Victoria program. You can find her on the Australian Writers’ Guild’s Pathways First Break portal. Supported by VicScreen, the AWG’s First Break program is run by highly experienced working screenwriters and trains a selected group of talented writers in note-taking, script coordinating and the basics of a writers’ room. Kaitlyn is available to work in your writers’ room.
In 2021 Kaitlyn participated in VicScreen’s ORIGINATE writers’ seminar and Australians In Film’s Untapped masterclass series.
From 2015-2016 Kaitlyn was one of the regular on-call freelance writers for woody TV, an agency and production company that collaborated with NGOs and progressive organisations to create scripted content. Kaitlyn predominantly wrote scripts for TV commercials but also radio ads and online content. Then-Head Writer at woody TV, Jazz Twemlow, says of Kaitlyn’s work: “Kaitlyn is professional, collaborative, effective, efficient, and the standard of her writing is excellent which is why [we] called on her repeatedly.”
Kaitlyn is currently developing her own projects, ranging from TV comedy series to feature films.
Nonfiction
“How Taylor Swift recreated, and updated, the magic of ‘Fearless'” – Junkee, April 2021 (link)
“How The Postal Service accidentally created the perfect pandemic album” – Junkee, October 2020 (link)
“Taylor Swift’s ‘Miss Americana’ is a frustrating and complicated look at misogyny” – Junkee, February 2020 (link)
“Taylor Swift new album theories are getting weirder and weirder” – Junkee, February 2019 (link)
“10 years on, how I learnt to stop worrying and love Taylor Swift’s ‘Fearless'” – Junkee, November 2018 (link)
“You can’t ‘positive-think’ your way out of disadvantage” – Hot Chicks With Big Brains, Issue #6, June 2018 (link)
“All the drama of Taylor Swift’s ‘reputation’, decoded by a superfan” – Junkee, November 2017 (link)
“How ‘So Fresh’ helped this hopeless teen nerd survive high school” – Junkee, November 2017 (link)
“How the ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ video fits into the Taylor Swift universe” – Junkee, August 2017 (link)
“We asked people which empowering movies to watch instead of Trump’s inauguration” – Junkee, January 2017 (link)
“An inconvenience” – Seizure, January 2017
“The ‘feminist’ advice that is actually holding women back” – The Sydney Morning Herald (republished), January 2017 (link)
“The best films of 2016 (that were never actually made)” – Junkee, December 2016 (link)
“The Hillarys house” – Stilts Journal, August 2016
“Why celebrity gossip is good for you” – The Vocal (Fairfax), July 2016
“Alan Alda on the importance of science communication” – The Tech Street Journal, March 2016
“Review: Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth” – Disability In Kidlit, January 2016 (link)
“How to talk to sick people” – Seizure, October 2015
“Reading your work aloud” – WQ Online, October 2015
“What it’s like to be young and on disability” – VICE, August 2015 (link)
“Fashion label finds pain-free business model” – The Tech Street Journal, April 2015
“Interview with feature poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell” – WRIT Poetry Review, Issue 01 ALPHA, September 2014
“Does The Wombats’ ‘Your Body Is A Weapon’ glorify stalking?” – Daily Life, January 2014
“Red pleather” – Stilts, December 2013
“Inua Ellams: Musical and delicious to the ear” – Waxings, March 2012
“Barry Morgan shows off his organ” – PerthNow, February 2012 (link)
Poetry
“Foundations” – The Suburban Review, Vol. 6, October 2015
“Wild at heart (a complex woman)” – Filmme Fatales, Iss. 6, August 2015
“Love at first line: a Tinder cento” – The Lifted Brow, Digital Edition (8:1), May 2014 (link)
“There’s Cairo in this city” – The Suburban Review, Vol. 2, February 2014 (link to author Q&A)
Fremantle Poets 3: Performance Poets, Fremantle Press, 2013 (link)
“Glasshouse mountains” – The South Townsville micro poetry journal, February 2013 (link)
“Mulled wine” – SpeedPoets, September 2012 (link)
“New year’s day” – dotdotdash, December 2009 (link)
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