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Short Fiction

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

Better You, upcoming in Overland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short/Longlist

The Foxes was shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize 2026

Willkommen! was shortlisted for the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2026

Batam was shortlisted for the Newcastle Short Story Award 2025

Hunting Tigers was longlisted for the Furphy Literary Award 2025

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

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

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

The Lagoon was longlisted in the Furphy Literary Award 2023

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

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