Writing Speculative Fiction at WritingNSW
Very exciting to be teaching this one-day intensive class in all things Speculative fiction. For more info go to . Get ready to surprise yourself!
Quicksilver wins Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella!
Honored to have been awarded Australia’s premier Speculative Fiction prize for this novella about the artist’s curse. Three women, all nieces, inherit a terrible legacy from a ambitious patriarch who, long ago, makes a pact with a witch that they…
Three stories shortlisted for Aurealis and Australian Shadows Awards
Delighted to have three stories shortlisted for major Australian Awards. “Hole World,” first published in Apex Magazine. “Quicksilver,” first published in Vandal: Stories of Damage, Crystal Lake Publishing. “Camp Never,” first published in Darkness Beckons, Flame Tree Press.
VANDAL drops
Vandal: Stories of Damage, dropped on Tuesday 21 Feb! Live launch to come but you can look at some of the Facebook Event activity here. Thank you to Crystal Lake Publishing, and to Team V: Aaron Dries and Kaaron Warren.…
The Bridge Wins Ditmar Award for Best Novel
An incredible Conflux Weekend, culminating in being honored by the committee and voters with this wholly unexpected award. Grateful doesn’t begin to described it. I am totally floored. Congrats to all the finalists and winners, especially pals J.Ashley Smith (Best…
Winter Haunts Workshop
I’ll be running a workshop called Writing Horror With Heart as part of Alex Davis’s Winter Haunts Event, on November 6, a day of panels, workshops and talks about ghosts and ghost stories and the supernatural. Hope to see you…
WRITING THE WEIRD RETURNS TO LITREACTOR, Sept.6
This is one of the courses that makes me love teaching as much as writing. My students routinely go on to publish stories workshopped here, which makes me happy.Magic realism, Gothic weird, bizarro, slipstream… let’s face it, what fiction, at…
The Bridge on the 2022 Ditmar Ballot.
Honoured to be listed in the novel category along with literary friends Angela Slatter and Maria Lewis, and so many other cool folks across all categories. Looking forward to Conflux in a few weeks.
In conversation with Alan Baxter, author of the Gulp, and the Fall, as part of Sydney Writers’ Festival
Very excited about this event to be held at Merrigong Theatre Company as part of the SWF, live and local program. Alan and I will chat about his new book, The Fall, which is a wild weird cosmic horror set…
The Bridge shortlisted for Aurealis Award.
Thrilled to announce The Bridge’s shortlisting among so many many talented friends.