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Dr Tom Doig

Creative Writing Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
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Publications

Books (3)
Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (7)
Conference Paper (1)
Audio Document (1)
Creative Works (9)
Newspaper Articles (5)

Books

Doig, Tom (2019). Hazelwood. Melbourne, Australia: Penguin Random House Australia.
Doig, Tom (2015). The coal face. North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Penguin Books Australia.
Doig, Tom (2013). Mörön to Mörön: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure. Crow Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin.

Book Chapters

Doig, Tom (2023). 'Dear Valued Guest'. Count every breath: a climate anthology. (pp. 100-101) edited by Vinita Agrawal. Calcutta, India: Hawakal Publishers.
Horrocks, Ingrid and Doig, Tom (2022). Writing the climate crisis. Tū Rangaranga: rights, responsibilities and global citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 161-179) edited by Sharon McLennan, Margaret Forster, Rand Hazou, David Littlewood and Carol Neill. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press.

Journal Articles

Doig, Tom (2024). Adventures in the apocalyptic style: preppers and the end of everything. Griffith Review, 86, 28-39.
Graham, Caroline, Doig, Tom and Shafeeq, Lujain (2024). Views from the edges: Teaching literary journalism at the margins of journalism and creative writing. Literary Journalism Studies, 15 (1), 158-181.
Doig, Tom (2024). Ten years on from Hazelwood: last decade’s second-worst disaster. Meanjin, 83 (1), 95-108.
Doig, Tom (2021). The Domestication of Disaster. Literary Journalism: The newsletter of the IALJS, 15 (1), 9-10.
Doig, Tom (2019). something very old. Cordite Poetry Review (92).
Doig, Tom (2017). 'Global Warming is a headf**k': using cultural journalism and oral history to engage with the lived experiences of climate change. Swamphen, 6, 39-50.
Doig, Tom (2016). When Jobs Leave Town. Big Issue Australia, 521, 30-33.

Conference Paper

Murray, Linda, Breheny, Mary, Doig, Tom , Mooney, Maureen, Erueti, Bevan, Severinsen, ‪Christina and Shanley, James (2022). Witnessing the climate crisis and children’s mental health: a framing analysis of international news media from 2019-2021. Population Health Congress, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 21-23 September 2022.

Audio Document

Doig, Tom (2023). Long Read: The Preppers Next Door. Radio New Zealand.

Creative Works

Doig, Tom (2024). A front-row seat at TrumpWorld: dispatches from the 2024 Republican National Convention. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Private Media.
Doig, Tom, Millar, Andrew, Mills, Catriona and Nolan, Maggie (2024). Preppers and survivalism in the AustLit Database. St Lucia, QLD Australia: AustLit.
Doig, Tom (2023). Friday essay: if the world’s systems are ‘already cracking’ due to climate change, is there a post-doom silver lining?. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Conversation Media Group.
Namana, Priya, Kapuscinski-Evans, Jess, Manderson-Galvin, Kerith, Park, Minsun, Homsey, Jonathan, Sifis, Eva, Dunn, Trevor, Mcmahon, Theo, Miles, Sean, Chapple, Aliki, Wang, Yuyu, Haynes, Jon, Paolini, Patrizia, Jadé Maravala, Persis, Parr, Nick, Grant, Ben, Doig, Tom, Spearim, Maurial, Kelly, Sean and Woods, David (2023). THIS. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Rising Festival (Melbourne).
Doig, Tom (2022). 'Dear Valued Guest,'. Online: Stride Magazine (Rupert Loydell).
Doig, Tom (2022). The preppers next door. Auckland, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographic.
Doig, Tom (2022). Living Underwater in Brisbane. Auckland, New Zealand: The Spinoff.
Tom Doig (2019). Sweet and sour pork lover. Melbourne, Australia: The Slow Canoe Press.
Doig, Tom (2018). The Animal Road: Ecotourism in Southwest Cambodia. Perth, Scotland: Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

Newspaper Articles

Guinness, Katherine, Bollmer, Grant and Doig, Tom (2024, 03 01). Billionaires are building bunkers and buying islands. But are they prepping for the apocalypse – or pioneering a new feudalism? The Conversation
Webb, Jen, Howard, Alexander, Gorman, Alice, Clark, Anna, Rhodes, Carl, Carol Lefevre, Dennis Altman, Edwina Preston, Heidi Norman, Hugh Breakey, Novitz, Julian, van Loon, Julienne, Ricketson, Matthew, Haslam, Nick, Davis, Oscar, Mares, Peter, Latty, Tanya, Doig, Tom, Hughes-d'Aeth, Tony and Sun, Wanning (2023, 12 05). Best books of 2023: our experts share the books that have stayed with them The Conversation
Doig, Tom (2022, 10 04). Doomsday bunkers, Mars and ‘The Mindset’: the tech bros trying to outsmart the end of the world The Conversation
Doig, Tom (2021, 07 20). John Summers: ink stained from the beginning The Spinoff
Castro, Isabel, Gibb, Gillian, Undin, Malin and Doig, Tom (2021, 05 13). Despite major conservation efforts, populations of New Zealand’s iconic kiwi are more vulnerable than people realise The Conversation
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