Publications & awards
A working list of published work – fiction, non-fiction and the occasional poem – with awards and shortlistings noted alongside.
Selected
-
“The God of Punching On”
-
“Hills Hoist”
-
“Yuppie power couple turns Coburg Motor Inn into exclusive Airbnb”
-
“Conversations with God at the Fernwood RSL”
-
“The accident and art of Ur Boy Bangs”
-
“An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Things”
Fiction
- 2025
“The God of Punching On”
The Writers’ Studio – 3rd prize, Writers’ Studio Short Story Competition
- 2025
“Not gone, forgotten”
d-SCRIBE Issue 18: Spiralling
- 2024
“Yuppie power couple turns Coburg Motor Inn into exclusive Airbnb”
Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2024 – shortlisted
- 2024
“Conversations with God at the Fernwood RSL”
Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2023 – shortlisted
- 2023
“Hills Hoist”
The Writers’ Studio – 1st prize, Writers’ Studio Short Story Competition
- 2023
“The Landlord”
d-SCRIBE 2023 – runner-up, Darebin Mayor’s Writing Award
- 2019
“Notes from an Australian human farm”
Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2019 – shortlisted
- 2018
“An Ending”
n-SCRIBE 13
- 2018
“Animalia”
Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2018 – shortlisted
- 2017
“The Tybee Bomb”
Forty South Short Story Anthology 2017 – finalist, Tasmanian Writers’ Prize
- 2017
“Enclosures”
Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2017 – shortlisted
- 2016
“The Bends (or on the suffering of others)”
Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2016 – shortlisted
- 2015
“An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Things”
The Victorian Writer – 2nd prize, Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers’ Competition
- 2015
“Elektro The Westinghouse Moto-Man and Me”
Stories from the World of Tomorrow (Darkhouse Books, US)
- 2014
“Fruit”
In Brief Issue #10: Frontier
- 2014
“Relativity”
Visible Ink #26: Encounters
- 2014
“Kids”
In Brief Issue #8: Risk
- 2014
“Daisy Chains”
In Brief Issue #8: Risk
- 2013
“Groundhog Toast”
In Brief Issue #7: Illusory
- 2012
“Houdini”
RMIT Creative Writing Anthology: Little Spines
Non-fiction
- 2015
“Australia’s Alternative Comics Scene (Or, Biting Into the Neon Lemon)”
Broadsheet Melbourne
- 2015
“The accident and art of Ur Boy Bangs”
Overland Literary Journal
- 2011–15
Reviews and criticism
ACCLAIM Magazine, The Dwarf, and Express Media: Buzzcuts
Poetry
- 2010
“Haiku”
Flinders Writers’ Association Annual Journal
Awards & recognition
- Writers’ Studio Short Story Competition – 1st prize 2023 (“Hills Hoist”); 3rd prize 2025 (“The God of Punching On”)
- Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers’ Competition – 2nd prize 2015
- Newcastle Short Story Award – shortlisted six times (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024)
- Tasmanian Writers’ Prize – finalist 2017
- Darebin Mayor’s Writing Award – runner-up 2023
- Major Project Highest Mark Award, BA Creative Writing, RMIT University, 2012 (screenplay Living Things)