Patrick is a writer, editor and outdoor guide based in Melbourne, Australia. When he’s not writing, he’s walking; either across countries or to his local pub.

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Selected writing

Newsletter | People & Places

Stories about people, places, and the former doing cool shit in the latter. Read it here.

Profiles, interviews and features

Meet the man who took a dog for a walk—around the world.
Published on Adventure.com (2025)

I took a job as a wombat walker. This is what I learned.
Published on Adventure.com (2024)

Intrepid leader Phurba Sherpa on mountains, mindset and creating memorable moments
Published on The Good Times, by Intrepid Travel (2022)

XPA vs IPA: what’s the difference?
Published on Dan’s Daily, by Dan Murphy’s (2022)

Creating beauty from brutality: the Zambian artists repurposing wildlife traps as jewellery
Published on Adventure.com (2023)

Stories

Don’t tell me how to Camino
Winner of We Are Explorer’s Moments travel writing competition (2024)

The magic of a bloody long walk
Published by Freely Travel (2024)

The Museum of Broken Relationships
Winner of the Stuart Hadow Short Story Prize (2022)

Highway to Heal
Third place in the Stuart Hadow Short Story Prize (2022)

Blitzkrieg
Winner of the Stuart Hadow Short Story Prize (2020)
Judge’s report

Dead Weight
Published in Heart: an anthology (2023)
Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival

The Manly Thing
Published in Suspiria: an anthology (2019). Clover Press.

Elsie’s Swim Club
Longlisted for the Lane Cove Literary Award (2021)

Artist residencies

Mattie Furphy House, Western Australia (2021)

Feedback

​’A clever satire on relationships and the potential pretentiousness of art, I found this story funnier with each read, yet it also raises important questions around the performativity of relationships, the idea that art is built on suffering, and the relationship between art and truth. A very modern tale, the narrative features pitch-perfect dialogue and a slide into surrealism that is handled with aplomb.’ – Josephine Taylor, Judge of the Stuart Hadow Short Story Prize 2022.

‘The Bill Bryson of pandemic orgies.’ – A stranger, commenting on a Facebook post.

‘This story – of love, albeit fleeting and unrequited – is marvellously fresh and adventurous. There is a deliciously strange quality to the drama, and the characters are vivid. A distinct sense of creative risk-taking pervades the work, especially in the way it is presented almost as a poem. I have not forgotten the story and its people, and I am sure others will not forget it either.’ – Nigel Featherstone, Judge of the Stuart Hadow Short Story Prize 2020.