AustLit

'when I stood on stage staring at the biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken to, the three red wines I’d guzzled beforehand did nothing to calm my nerves or still my clammy hands.'

'But as soon as I began talking, sharing with a room of strangers the debaucherous and, in hindsight, pretty dumb and dangerous lengths I went to, to get laid, I was hooked.'

'I’d been roped in to tell my story at the first event for Spun: True Tales Told in the Territory by my former lecturer turned mate Jennifer Pinkerton.'