Deveson wrote about her experiences with her son's illness and death in Tell Me I'm Here, which won the 1991 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for non-fiction writing, and then translated her work into the documentary film Spinning Out.
Author Deveson shared her personal account of coping with her son's health issues and ultimate demise in Tell Me I'm Here, which received the 1991 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission honor for literary excellence, and was subsequently reimagined as a documentary film titled Spinning Out.