Happy New Year! I was quite relieved to see the end of 2015 – a big year of behind-the-scenes work in preparation for a bumper 2016. I spent the months leading up to Christmas working madly on my first full-length short story collection for UQP. We’re now done with the editing phase, and the book is almost ready to […]

If you’re free tomorrow night, come to Little Fictions at Knox Street Bar. Actor Lauren Hamilton Neill will be reading an excerpt from my short story, ‘Endless City’, from Capital Misfits. Starts at 7pm. Details here and here.

Extremely pleased that one of my short stories, ‘The Level Playing Field’, has been included in The Best Australian Stories 2015, which will be out in November. The story was originally published in my Spineless Wonders ebook collection, Capital Misfits.

I’ve lined up a few readings that will have me zipping between Newcastle and Melbourne from 30 September to 4 October. If you happen to be around, please come and say hi! The first two events are for The Sleepers Almanac X – the final instalment in Sleepers Publishing’s ten-year run of annual anthologies. I’m incredibly pleased to have […]

An excerpt from my short story, ‘Sugar Daddy’, from my collection Capital Misfits, will be read by actor Tim McGarry at Little Fictions at Knox Street Bar on 21 September. The event is part of the Sydney Fringe Festival and showcases work by Spineless Wonders authors. The theme of the night is ‘The Great Unknown’ – featuring strange, […]

The official launch of Capital Misfits will be in Wollongong on 10 June as part of National Young Writers’ Month. It will be launched alongside collections by Kate Liston-Mills and Sam George-Allen. The event will be at Jane’s Wollongong (40 Flinders Street, North Wollongong) from 6.30-8pm. Free entry. We’ll be reading excerpts from the collections.