Selection of video footage:
- YouTube: Greece is the Word with Peter Daskarolis, 8 January 2024
- YouTube: Greece Chats Podcast with Tony Kariotis, 29 December 2023
- YouTube: In conversation with Lisa See, author of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, 17 November 2023
- YouTube: JourneyWoman Book of the Month selections for 2023-2024, 17 September 2023
- YouTube: In conversation with Laura Maya, author of Tell Them My Name, 27 October 2022
Selection of audio broadcasts:
- Radio: Celebrating Harmony Day with The Alibi Show, Alive 90.5 FM, 23 March 2024
- Podcast: Chatting all things writing and travel with Alex the Greek – It’s All Greek to Me Episode 21, 25 August 2023
- Podcast: Library of Lost Time – Strong Sense of Place (first 3 minutes – review only), 16 June 2023
- Podcast: Travel to the eastern Peloponnese and Saronic islands, Greece – Amateur Traveler Episode 833, 22 January 2023
- Podcast: Travel to Athens, Greece – Amateur Traveler Episode 832, 15 January 2023
Selection of online articles:
- Book review of Tell Them My Name by Laura Maya in Suz’s Space, syndicated in Toorak Times, 5 February 2024
- Sarah Winman’s Still Life: A Love Letter to Florence, Italy in JourneyWoman, 9 August 2023
- Carving Joy from Grief Writing in Brevity Blog, 13 September 2022
- Book review of The Spill by Imbi Neeme, shortlisted in a Writing NSW book review competition, February 2022
- Tackling the Professional Edit: An Emerging Author’s First Experience in Women’s Ink! Spring/Summer edition, November 2021
- Failing NaNoWriMo in Suz’s Space, 23 June 2020, syndicated in Toorak Times on 24 June 2020
- Talking Location with Author Sally Jane Smith – Historic Istanbul in TripFiction, 2 November 2019
Media coverage:
Click here to access an archive of media coverage since 2020, including interviews, features and reviews of the Packing for Greece series.
Travel memoirs and anthologies:
Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey
Join Sally as she explores, rambles and reads her way around the Greek mainland and islands.
Book Two in the ‘Packing for Greece’ series travels to Athens and Delphi on the mainland; Nafplio, Mycenae, Epidavros and Methana on the Peloponnese Peninsula; and the islands of Hydra, Poros, Kefalonia and Corfu (with a side trip to Albania).
Publication April 2024. Kindle pre-orders now open. More coming soon.
Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta
Join Sally as she embarks on a solo journey across the magnificent Greek mainland and islands.
Book One in the ‘Packing for Greece’ series travels to Athens and Meteora on the mainland; Monemvasia, Sparta and Methana on the Peloponnese Peninsula; and the islands of Santorini and Rhodes.
“Eleven-Thirty” – Sally’s experimental exploration of travel and grief – placed as a finalist in the Newcastle Short Story Award 2022.
In “Eleven-Thirty”, a young woman’s ashes journey from Hanoi to Cape Town, while an older woman flees into the Turkish hinterland in a futile attempt to outrun her loss. The story appears in the award anthology published by the Hunter Writers’ Centre.
Twenty writers share their adventures in this anthology of travel stories.
“Some Leafs: Grandma Gropp’s Tale” – published in Itchy Feet: Tales of Travel and Adventure – weaves Sally Jane Smith’s words with those of her great-great-grandmother, a woman who led an extraordinary life on four continents and at the edges of three wars. From a message in a 19th-century bottle to a modern-day tragedy, “Some Leafs” asks: should we follow our wanderlust, or stay safe at home?