Nigel Featherstone is a writer for the page, stage, and music. His most recent work is The Story of the Oars, a play with spoken poetry and music, which had its world premiere at The Street Theatre, Canberra, in 2025. Nigel’s novels include Bodies of Men and My Heart is a Little Wild Thing. He has been shortlisted for the ACU Prize for Poetry and the Newcastle Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights Award.
We’re fascinated by the lives of first responders: paramedics, firefighters and police officers. What draws people to these intense professions? How does what they see reshape them? Martin McKenzie-Murray has…
