publications

Sometimes other people like my words enough to publish them, and I am ever grateful.

short prose

• ‘Gerald Bantam says goodbye’ / Pulp Literature, Issue 34. Listen to the opening pages at Pulp Literature Spring 2022 Launch or read the teaser here
• ‘In the stuffing’ / Verge 2019: Uncanny anthology
• ‘Jezabel’s Reformation’ / Tahoma Literary Review, Issue 14. Read here; listen here
• ‘Red with a Purple Stripe’ / Crannóg Magazine, Issue 49
• ‘Kim Blaine, Blood Broker’ / Breach #06
• ‘Water and Light’ / Hippocampus Magazine
• ‘That day in the back of the SUV’ / Fixional
• ‘The Unknown’ / Breach #01
• ‘The Man with the Purple Halo’ / Southword Literary Journal, Issue 26; reprinted in Quail Bell Magazine — third place in the Trudy Graham-Julie Lewis Literary Award 2012
• ‘The Gift’ / Other Voices anthology

shorter prose (<1,000 words)

• ‘The wife’ in the little journal: Issue 1; also in the short story dispenser at Raine Square, Perth from 1 March 2025
• ‘The Lion‘ in Pulp Literature: Issue 27. Rich Horton at Locus called this story “gleefully fierce” and this has become my new favourite phrase.
• ‘The meaning of free’ in Sunspot Literary Journal Vol. 2, Issue 2 — first place in Sunspot Lit‘s A Single Word Contest 2020
• ‘Cthulhu is a harried mother with overactive regenerative capabilities’ in With One Eye on the Cows: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Four
• ‘Penelope Moves In’ in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts; kindly mentioned in The Writer
• ‘Between shelves‘ — first place in the inaugural Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Victorian History Library 2018 Library and Information Week Short Story Competition
• ‘Guns and Honey’ in Southerly Literary Journal
• ‘Taking some sun’ in Happy²: Pure Slush Vol. 15
• ‘Rat on a Roll’ via Queensland Writers Centre — shortlisted for the QWC Flash Fiction Prize 2017
• ‘My Father’s Voice at the Weir’ in The Ham, Issue 1
• ‘The Very In-Between’ in 2016 Grieve Anthology
• ‘Mother’s Milk’ in Atticus Review
• ‘The cat on the ceiling‘ in Conversations anthology and exhibition
• ‘What Happens in Amsterdam’ in Gravel Magazine. Listen here
• ‘The lost marble’ in Ad Hoc Fiction

poems

• ‘His wife reflects’ in Atticus Review
• ‘You ask too much’ in Atticus Review
• ‘Open Letter’ in MoTHER [has words…]. Listen here
• ‘Self-analysis on a train’ in Paper Crown Magazine
• ‘Sweet Coffee’ in A Quiet Courage literary journal
• Three haiku at Poets’ Corner @ UWA, 2013