stories

Excerpts from some of the stories listed below are available in the “read me” section of this website.

  • 2023. Short story, Top Five Tips for Lifting Pumpkins, for the Finders Keepers blog series, State Library of Queensland.
  • 2023. Short story, Directions, for the townscape art project Nozoki Ana ART Tsuyazaki (or Peephole Art in Tsuyazaki, Fukutsu, Fukuoka, 1 October–26 November.
  • 2023. Short story, On the Road, in New Australian Fiction 2023, Kill Your Darlings, Melbourne.
  • 2023. Short story, Radical Love, in Griffith Review 79, Griffith University, South Brisbane.
  • 2023. Letter in Dear Lover, edited by Samuel Johnson and illustrated by Shaun Tan, Hachette Australia, Sydney.
  • 2021. Short story, A Jolly Good Scrape!, with illustrations by Jeffrey Phillips, Liminal Vol. II, Melbourne.
  • 2021. Art song, ’19/6′, written with composer Zara Stanton. Premiered at Vicki Lee Gallery as part of Blush Opera’s Twelve Threads event. Performance by Jermaine Chau and Eleanor Betts.
  • 2021. Opera, Chop Chef, debuted at Riverside Theatres, 22–24 April.
  • 2021. Letter in Dear Mum, edited by Samuel Johnson and illustrated by Shaun Tan, Hachette Australia, Sydney.
  • 2021. Short story, Confessions of the Great Martyr of All Time, edited by Leah Jing McIntosh for Liminal magazine’s Time series, co-presented with Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Mapping Melbourne Festival.
  • 2020. Essay, Double Phoenix, One-Way Street Magazine (Dandu), Beijing.
  • 2020. Short story, Julie KohSilent Dialogue, correspondences, Melbourne.
  • 2020. Short story, The Secret GardenMeanjin, Volume 79 Issue 4, 80th anniversary edition.
  • 2020. Short story, Eden, Peril magazine, Edition 43. Part of the Noteworthy Project curated by Kevin Bathman of Carnival of the Bold.
  • 2020. Radio play, Slammin’ with the Poet King, Radio National Fictions: Untrue Crime series. Produced by Mark Dapin and Sophie Townsend.
  • 2020. Opera, Chop Chef, written with composer Paul Smith for Blush Opera, set to debut at Riverside, 4–6 June. Postponed until 2021.
  • 2020. Radio play, Workers of All Lands Unite, Radio National Fictions: Oz Gothic series, ABC Radio National. Produced by Camilla Hannan and Sophie Townsend.
  • 2019. Short story, The Three-Dimensional Yellow Manrepublished in Everything Changes: a Transcultural Anthology, edited by Xianlin Song and Nicholas Jose, UWA Publishing, Perth.
  • 2019. Short story, HELENA J. GINSBURG (1980–2007)republished in Creating Micro stories: Small fiction with big impact!, edited by Erika Boas and Emma Jenkins, Australian Association for the Teaching of English, Kensington Gardens.
  • 2019. Short story, Slammin’ with the Poet King, in Going Down Swinging #40, Melbourne.
  • 2019. Short story, Workers of All Lands Unite, in New Australian Fiction, edited by Rebecca Starford, Kill Your Darlings, Melbourne.
  • 2019. Letter in Dear Dad, edited by Samuel Johnson and illustrated by Shaun Tan, Hachette Australia, Sydney.
  • 2018. Email to Santa in Dear Santa, edited by Samuel Johnson and illustrated by Shaun Tan, Hachette Australia, Sydney.
  • 2018. Portable Curiosities a finalist in the 2018 Norma K Hemming Award (Long Work), recognising excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, sexuality, class or disability in a published speculative fiction work.
  • 2017. Short story, The Wall, from Issue 10 of The Canary Press republished online in fine print magazine Issue #11: Humour & Parody, with illustration by Jeffrey D. Phillips.
  • 2017. Portable Curiosities shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Award in the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
  • 2017Shortlisted for the M Literary Residency 2017.
  • 2016. Short story anthology, BooksActually’s Gold Standard 2016, published by Math Paper Press.
  • 2016. Singapore print edition of capsule short story collection, Capital Misfits, published by Math Paper Press with illustrations by Matt Huynh.
  • 2016. Shortlisted for the 2016–2017 Copyright Agency – UTS New Writer’s Fellowship.
  • 2016. Short story, The Procession, published in HEAT, Fixi Novo, Malaysia.
  • 2016. Short story, The Level Playing Field, published in The Australian.
  • 2015. Short story, The Fat Girl in History, published in The Sleepers Almanac X, Sleepers Publishing, Melbourne.
  • 2015. Capsule short story collection, Capital Misfits, published by Spineless Wonders in ebook format.
  • 2014. Story writer and editor for Monstereum: Compendium of Modern Monsters, a forthcoming illustrated online magazine. Curated by Matt Huynh.
  • 2013. Finalist in the Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards Written Word category.
  • 2013. Article, Maverick, on how I quit my job in corporate law and became a lollipop lady. Published as part of Geoff Orton’s Writers Bloc series, Writers’ Other Jobs.
  • 2013. Story Concept and Story Consultant for the short film, Only One. Loosely based on an unpublished short story of mine. The film was supported by the Metro Screen First Break program and premiered at the Palm Springs International ShortFest 2013. View the trailer here.
  • 2011. Short story, The Fantastic Breasts, published in ebook format. See the SHOP section of this blog for links to online distributors.
  • 2011. Flash fiction piece, Friendsville, published on 19 May by online journal, Subtle Fiction.
  • 2007. Runner-Up in the Fish One-Page Prize for HELENA J. GINSBURG (1980-2007), published in The Fish Anthology 2007: A Paper Heart Is Beating, A Paper Boat Sets Sail, Fish Publishing, Cork, Ireland, 2007.