Cole began her literary career publishing poetry in a range of Australian poetry journals with the support of her mentor, A.D. Hope- whom she later wrote about in her memoir, The Poet Who Forgot. Her first published prose fiction was short story, followed by the novels Dry Dock , Skin Deep and then The Grave at Thu Le which examines French colonialism in Vietnam. Cole's Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks explores the lure of crime fiction and its increasing popularity across international cultures and was published in 1996. Her lifelong fascination with Vietnam was further explored in the anthology, The Perfume River– Writing from Vietnam. Cole, along with Vicki Karaminas and Peter McNeil co-edited Fashion in Fiction, Fashion in Textiles, Television and Film. Some of Cole's recent short stories have been published in leading Australian journals and anthologies ; and have been produced by and read on BBC Radio 4.
Seabirds Crying in the Harbour – collection of stories The Rabbit 2014 Animal Studies Journal, 3 Dein ist Mein Ganzes Hertz 2014 #9 Mother Love 2014 InC. Kennedy Australian Love Stories Home 家 2012 总第345期，年第6期 345 ed. Beijing 北京: World Literature 世界文学; ; and in Meanjin 2010 #69 Long Live Peace 2010 The Perfume River: An Anthology of Writing From Vietnam Her Annotated Hair 2009 Trunk: Hair #1
Poetry
War A Mascara Literary Review, Issue 17 – April 2015 Animal Dreaming Animal Studies Journal. 2 ed. Sydney: Animal Studies Journal, 2013 Carlton Online: Mascara Literary Review, Issue 13, June, 2013 1-2 Jim Morrison - Pere Lachaise "A séance" Tincture. 3 ed. Sydney: Tincture, 2013 4 Leda Transnational Literature. Adelaide: Flinders University, 2013 Looking for Serge Gainsbourg Online: Mascara Literary Review, Issue 13, June, 2013 1-2
Memoir
The Poet Who Forgot
Academic writing
Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction
Essays and reviews
Diverse Voices in Celebration of Poetry Text : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses April vol.18 #1 2014 Review: Nam Le's "The Boat" 2013 Reading Australia Review: "Konkretion" by Marion May Campbell Mascara Literary Review #13 2013 Productive creative writers' relationships: a communities-of-practice framework Nelson, A. & Cole, C. New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing 9 #3 2012 History and Post-memory in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature Cole, C. & Berry, M. TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs 10 Special Issue 2011 Review of "Murdering Stepmothers - The Execution of Martha Rendell" by Anna Haebich Studies in Western Australian History #27 2011 The Program Era: Review by Catherine Cole Text 15 #2 2011 Literary Communities: writers’ practices and networks Cole, C. & Nelson, A. Strange Bedfellows or Prefect Partners Papers: Refereed Conference Papers of the 15th Annual AAWP Conference. Australia: Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2010 Writing in the Contemporary Academy 2009 Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media #1 Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television 2009 McNeil, P., Karaminas, V. & Cole, C., eds. Learning to Write 2009 Griffith Review #26 Summer Homecoming and a Hard Climb 2008 The Weekend Australian S & M Thriller Needs Fleshing Out 2008 The Weekend Australian How the University Workshop Hinders New Writers from Engaging with Ideas 2007 Segue: Writing on Writing: July Postcard from a Paris Dawn 2007 Australian Author 39 #2 Teaching James Joyce in the Creative Writing Workshop 2007 Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction Vol.7 #2 Henry James, Affect and the Writer/Researcher 2006 Text 10 #2 A Tale of Two Cities 2005 Australian Author 37 #2 The Third and Fourth Countries 2005 Griffith Review #6 Summer Research 2002 Crime Factory #6 I Wish I'd Written That 2001 Crime Factory #3
Other works
The Perfume River: An Anthology of Writing from Vietnam Travelling Partners: Using Literary Studies to Support Creative Writing about Real Spaces Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. Eds. Brien D., Cole C., & Freiman M. McNeil, P., Karaminas, V. & Cole, C. Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television.
