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Suvi Mahonen’s Biography

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Suvi is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Weekend Australian Magazine, HuffPost, The Establishment, The Griffith Review, Brisbane Times, The Big Issue, Green Parent and many other publications across the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia. Memorable interviewees have included Canada's deputy prime minister at the time, Herb Gray, and Australia's federal treasurer at the time, Peter Costello.

Suvi Mahonen’s Journalist Portfolio

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Let There Be Light

Let There Be Light

At its simplest, it’s a bucket lined with bulbs. But light therapy is yielding promising results for Parkinso…

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What looking after a newborn baby is like

What looking after a newborn baby is like

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Learning How We Die In A Plane Crash Helped Me Overcome My Fear Of Flying

Learning How We Die In A Plane Crash Helped Me Overcome My Fear Of Flying

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What That Digital Device Is Doing To Your Toddler's Mind

What That Digital Device Is Doing To Your Toddler's Mind

My three-year-old daughter's face wavers in shifting patterns of light from the mini iPad held in her hands. …

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A Catcaller Motivated Me to Snap Out of My New-Mom Self-Pity

A Catcaller Motivated Me to Snap Out of My New-Mom Self-Pity

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Suvi Mahonen - The Establishment

Suvi Mahonen - The Establishment

Strands of light blue twisted, crossed over, then sank into the expanse of knitted wool only to emerge at the…

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Articles

The Vandals are Coming! by Alison Cooper

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By Suvi Mahonen, Louisa Campbell, Robert Scott, Alison Cooper
| eastoftheweb.com
"No, you'll have to go somewhere else. I'll be late for bible study." She slammed the door, so he navigated the brambles that had invaded the alleyway behind the houses and peed on the compost heap that the vandals had mounted to drop into their garden. Mr. Whitaker didn't want to build a new fence, he said, and it hadn't been very charitable of Mr. Ching to put one up without telling him. It blocked the sun and now those ruffians were targeting him, a God-fearing Christian, instead.
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Coming Home | Contrary Magazine

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By Suvi Mahonen
| Contrary Magazine Verified
05:05 am. My eyes open. A faint pearly blade of light squeezing past the blind. The distant metallic scrape of a moving tram. I lie here in the dawn’s dimness, with my dreams still lingering. “I am a happily married man and I am not looking for any other arrangement. I would ask that you please do not contact me again.” I reach for my phone. The last words of his last message haunt me. It seems impossible that it is “over”, even if our relationship was only ever a virtual one.
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A Catcaller Motivated Me to Snap Out of My New-Mom Self-Pity

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By Suvi Mahonen
| Yahoo Verified
Perhaps the only person disrespecting me was myself. One of the hardest things about becoming a stay-at-home mum is the feeling that you’ve turned invisible. Once the gifts and the cards following the birth of your baby subside, the indifference to your daily grind can be depressing.
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Interview

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Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Clark Kent.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

It means you have the power to drive change.

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

Hashtag Your Hole Is My Goal :)

Awards

Bauhinia Literary Awards

2008 - Short Fiction

Winner, Tertiary Student section for short story, How Do I Call The Ambulance?

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Laura Literary Awards

2009 - Short Fiction

Winner, Open section for short story, Bobby.