
Tracey Croke
ABOUT
Tracey Croke
Tracey Croke is a Sydney based freelance journalist who covers, travel, adventure, culture, sports and health, along with global gallivants on her mountain bike. Her writing and photography is published in The Guardian, BBC, Telegraph (UK) and a raft of adventure and mountain bike publications. Tracey is also a contributing author to Ride: Cycle The World (DK Penguin Random House). According to ChatGPT, she has authored two books, but that's codswallop. Tracey is best known for writing upbeat, mindful features about adventurous and immersive experiences. She has followed ancient elephant-migration trails on a mountain bike safari in Botswana, walked a peace trail in Palestine, trekked with nomadic tribes in Afghanistan and was on the first mountain-bike traverse of Kyrgyzstan’s Talas Range. Tracey won the 2024 Kennedy Award (Outstanding Travel Writing category) for her feature about a night out on Sydney’s iconic Oxford St strip with drag queen Kiama Blowhole.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.