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Short Fiction

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Batam, Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2025, available to purchase here

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Better You, upcoming in Overland

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​​The Drum and the Bell,  adda  August  2025, read here

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Improving the Area, Island (online) June 2025, read here

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Alain Delon, 1966, Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2024, available to purchase here

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The Lagoon, Meniscus, Volume 12 Issue 2  2024, read here

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Dog Days, The West Australian as part of the Best Australian Yarn 2023 Top 50, read here

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The Terror,  Forty South Short Story Anthology 2023 available to purchase here.

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Mrs Li takes a Night Class, The Saltbush Review Issue 3 Intersections April 2023 read here

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Awards and Competitions
Awards
 
​Dog Days was a shortlisted finalist  for the Best Australian Yarn 2023

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The Terror was Highly Commended in the Forty South Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2023​

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Short/Longlist

 

Batam was shortlisted for the Newcastle Short Story Award 2025

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Hunting Tigers was longlisted for the Furphy Literary Award 2025​

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The Drum and the Bell was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2025

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The Drum and the Bell was longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize 2025

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Alain Delon , 1966 was shortlisted for the Newcastle Short Story Award 2024

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​The Lagoon was longlisted in the Furphy Literary Award 2023

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Nomenklatura was longlisted in the Peter Carey Short Story Award 2023​​​​​​​​​​

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