Broken Rules and Other Stories

Supported by the Victorian government through Creative Victoria, and by Varuna, the National Writers’ House.

Broken Rules and Other Stories. Transit Lounge, 1 September 2020. RRP $29.99. Trade Paperback 240pp. ISBN: 9781925760552. Available from Transit Lounge, and bookshops including Readings, and the National Library of Australia Bookshop.

Online in-conversation event with Readings, Monday 14 September 2020 at 6.30PM

The books to read in 2020, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 December 2019

Advance trade review, Books+Publishing, 28 February 2020 (pdf version here)

Booksellers’ Choice Your Reading Guide (Spring edition), Australian Booksellers Association (ABA); stockists here

Review, The Big Issue, 12 June 2020

Review, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 2020

Review, Westerly

Review, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 2020

Meet the Author, In Their Own Write, 21 August 2020

Review, ArtsHub, 1 September 2020 (pdf version here)

Review, ReadPlus, 1 September 2020

Review, SA Weekend, 5 September 2020

Review, Readings, 7 September 2020

‘Careering’ read by Tim McQueen on Cover to Cover Episode 334, Vision Australia Radio, 18 September 2020 (repeated 20 September 2020)

Review, Blue Wolf, 23 September 2020

12 Australian novels & story collections to read this month, Readings, 25 September 2020

Feature, Female.com.au, 29 September 2020

Feature, Girl.com.au

Review, Australian Book Review (ABR) | October 2020, no. 425, 24 September 2020 (pdf version here)

Interview, Published…Or Not, 3CR, 1 October 2020 (MP3 link here, and file here)

Review, The Canberra Times, 3 October 2020, (pdf version here)

Feature, Good Reading, The List, Short Stories

Review, Cass Moriarty | Author, 4 October 2020

‘Their Cruel Routines’ and ‘The Americans’ read by Tim McQueen on Cover to Cover Episode 339, Vision Australia Radio, 23 October 2020 (repeated 25 October 2020; MP3 here)

‘Playful Arrangements’ and ‘Broken Rules’ read by Tim McQueen on Cover to Cover Episode 341, Vision Australia Radio, 6 November 2020 (repeated 8 November 2020; MP3 here)

Included in Major Prize One in the Overland Subscriberthon 2020 (13 to 20 November)

Review, The Weekend Australian, 21-22 November 2020

Review, The AU Review, 3 December 2020

Review, PS News, 25 January 2021

Review, News Break, 12 February 2021

Interview, The Quiet Carriage, MAINfm, 5 March 2021

Review, Glam Adelaide, 2 June 2021

Shortlisted, 2021 Queensland Literary Awards, for the University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection, 4 August 2021