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 recounted her experiences of raising a child with an illness and ultimately losing him in Tell Me I'm Here, which earned her a 1991 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission award for outstanding writing, and was subsequently reinterpreted as a documentary film titled Spinning Out.