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• 22-25 August 2024. Rodeo Clown at Darwin Festival.
  
• 23 March 2024. Clunes Booktown Festival: Let Me Read To You, afternoon readings hosted by Jacinta Parsons & evening Underscore with The Idiomatics at The Tin Shed.
• 22 March 2024. Solo reading accompanied by Sally Ford & The Idiomatics at the Athenaeum Library.
• 23/24 February 2024. Rodeo Clown, co-written with Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius and Melissa Reeves, premieres at Borderville Festival, Albury. 
• 10 February 2024. Underscore: a return performance of readings and music at Malthouse Theatre outdoor stage, with Helen Garner, Jane Clifton & Wayne Macauley.
• 31 May 2023. Underscore. A night of readings with music by Sally Ford and The Idiomatics at Brunswick Ballroom, with Helen Garner, Brian Nankervis & Wayne Macauley.
• 2 April 2022. Five Anecdotes, short fiction, in The Saturday Paper.
  
• 24 November 2020. A new essay on Gerald Murnane's The Plains in LitHub.
  
• 10 October 2020. Three Anecdotes, short fiction, in The Saturday Paper.
  
• 15 September 2020. Simpson Returns longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize.
  
• 4 March 2020. The Great Anzac Cooption, a session with Romain Fathi and Paul Daley, at Adelaide Writers' Week.
  
• 13 December 2019. Simpson Returns listed in The Age & Sydney Morning Herald's Books We Loved in 2019. ('A book every Australian should read')
• 9 December 2019. The Great Debate 2019 on ABC Radio National's The Book Show.
  
• 2 December 2019. Simpson Returns shortlisted for a Victorian Premier's Literary Award.
  
• 2 September 2019. A long-form review of Simpson Returns, in Sydney Review of Books. 'Elegant... ingenious'
• August 2019. Meanjin & Readings blogs on Caravan Story. 'Funny, interesting, smart, and like nothing else I’ve ever read'
  
• 22 May 2019. An interview with Mel Cranenburg on 3RRR's Backstory.
• 11 May 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in The Australian. 'arguably Australia's finest contemporary literary satirist'
  
• 1 May 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in Australian Book Review. 'They should teach this book at school.'
  
• 29 April 2019. An interview on ABC Radio National's The Book Show.
• 25 April 2009. The Guardian on Anzac and Simpson Returns. 'masterful and beautiful... a triumph'
  
• 25 April 2019. An interview on 3CR's Published...Or Not.
• 13 April 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in The Age.
  
• 12 April  2019. Article on Simpson Returns in The Guardian.
  
• 9 April 2019. An interview on ABC Melbourne Evenings.
• 9 April 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed on Booknotes. 'A must read.'
  
• 8 April 2019. Interview: Wheeler Centre: Working With Words.
  
• 4 April 2019. An interview on RN's The Drawing Room.
  

2 April 2019. Simpson Returns, a novella, released through Text Publishing.

• 27 March 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in Readings Monthly.
  
• 30 March 2019. Simpson Returns reviewed in The Saturday Paper. 
• 25 January 2019. Simpson Returns listed in The Australian's Hot Reads for 2019. 
  
• 24 December 2018. Simpson Returns listed in The Age & Sydney Morning Herald's What To Read In 2019.
• December 2018. Idle Hands, a story, in Overland (Issue #233).
  
• Feb-Aug 2018. A six-month residency at the Keesing Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, funded through the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
  
• 23 May 2018. Some Tests longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. 
• 24 December 2017. S J Finn on Caravan Story ('eating one piece of art at a time' #54)
  
• 23 December 2017. Some Tests listed in The Australian's Best Books of 2017.   
• 21 December 2017. Some Tests shortlisted in the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
• 2 December 2017. Some Tests listed as a Book of the Year in Australian Book Review. 'a subtle and quietly moving novel'    
• 5 October 2017. Caravan, co-written with Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius and Melissa Reeves, premieres at Malthouse Theatre as part of the 2017 Melbourne Festival. Nominated for a 2018 Awgie Award.
• 7 September 2017. Some Tests reviewed in Sydney Review of Books. 'amusing and very often frightening' 
• 1 September 2017. Some Tests reviewed in The Lifted Brow. 'sinister and spiritual' 
• 12 August 2017. Some Tests reviewed in The Australian. 
• 27 July 2017. Some Tests reviewed in Kill Your Darlings.
• 5 July 2017. An interview on 3RRR's Multi-Storied with Elizabeth McCarthy and Louise Irving. 
• 30 June 2017. Some Tests reviewed in Sydney Morning Herald & The Age. 'the shock of the familiar, vividly portrayed'
• 27 June 2017. Interview about Some Tests on Radio National Books and Arts.
• 24 June 2017. Interview about Some Tests in The Guardian.  
• 23 June 2017. Some Tests reviewed on ANZ LitLovers blog. 
• 21 June 2017. Some Tests listed in Readings' Top Picks Of The Month For Book Clubs.   
• 19 June 2017. Some Tests reviewed in the Otago Times (NZ).
• 6 June 2017. Some Tests is officially launched at Readings Carlton by critic James Ley. 'I genuinely consider Wayne Macauley to be one of one of the best fiction writers in the country'
  
• 3 June 2017. Some Tests reviewed in The Saturday Paper. 'Wayne Macauley is an Australian original'
• 1 June 2017. An interview on 3CR's Published... or Not with David McLean. 
• 30 May 2017. Some Tests reviewed in Readings Monthly magazine. 'Teeming with ideas... thought-provoking... completely unique... utterly compelling' 

30 May 2017.  Some Tests, a new novel, is released.


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