Nicole's poetry can be found in music, visual and sound pieces, exhibitions, on ferries, and in journals, publications and anthologies. In 2020, Nicole was the co-recipient of the 2020 Shoalhaven Arts Board Grant for visual and literary project 20x20x12 Sensing Place, a finalist in the Meroogal Women's Art Prize and shortlisted for the 2020 Red Room Poetry Fellowship. In 2022, Nicole was a finalist in the Newcastle Poetry Prize and a 2022 and 2023 recipient of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Emerging Writers Mentorship through the South Coast Writers Centre where she is working on her first collection of poems.
Nicole's spoken word and sound poetry is held in collecting institutions.
PUBLICATIONS
20x20x12 sensing place: shoalhaven and surrounds (Manta Publishing, 2021)
Anthologies
Mantle - South Coast Writers Centre Anthology of Writing, 2022 (South Coast Writers Centre, 2022); The Anabranch - Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, 2022 (Hunters Writers Centre, 2022); Shoot the Breeze - Poetry Anthology 2022 (Girls on Key, 2022); What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing (Recent Work Press, 2021); Guwayu - For All Times (Magabala Books, 2020); Never Heard of Them - An Anthology of Emerging Writers from the Illawarra and South Coast (Baby Teeth Journal, 2019)
Journals
Australian Poetry Journal 10.2 - Tribute, Observations ( March 2021); Mascara Literary Review - issue 25 (October 2020); Australian Poetry Journal 10.1 - Modern Elegy (August 2020); Baby Teeth Journal - Global Climate Crisis Edition (February 2020)
commissions
Nicole receives commissions for poems, songs, sound art and meditations, in addition to running and facilitating workshops.
She has worked on numerous programs including South Coast Writers Centre's Listen, Share, Learn, Write, 2022; Cobargo Primary School Poetry and Art Mural project, 2022; Red Room Poetry's Youth Unlocked, 2021; Writing Water: Rain, River, Reef, 2020; and Poetry in First Languages, 2019, 2018 and Wollongong City Council's Poetry is Story, 2019.