
Kirsten Fogg is a Australian-Canadian writer, journalist and award-winning essayist passionate about immigration and migration, belonging, suicide prevention and mental health, and empowering women.

7 Panic Remedies for Viral Anxiety
On Saturday my husband and daughter went out to get some groceries in Toronto, Canada. After several hours they returned without hand sanitizer, rubbing...
Vicarious trauma (for writers) on the Brevity blog
The Brevity Magazine's Nonfiction Blog today published a piece I wrote about vicarious trauma and how it affects me and other writers. I believe it's...
First steps to getting published: advice from the experts
Have you got a manuscript that's finished and you can't figure out how to get the attention of agents or publishers, or are you wondering what to do to get...
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As an immigrant and an Australian I acknowledge my homeland Meanjin, also known as Brisbane, and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of the land, the Turrbal and Yuggera people, to their elders, past present and emerging. I also respectfully acknowledge the Mississaugas of the Anishinabeg, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Wendat people, the traditional custodians of the land on which I currently live, write and walk, aslo called Toronto.