fiction

  • Ice Cream Social

    San Fedele Press is hosting an Ice Cream Social this weekend, from the Jersey Shore in the US. The virtual event is taking place via Zoom on Saturday from 4.30pm Eastern Time, which is 7.30am Sunday in Melbourne. I’ll be reading my short story ‘Glassy’ from American Writers Review 2021: Turmoil and Recovery. I can’t…

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  • Thanks to Lee Kofman for welcoming me to her blog to write a guest post about writers groups, and specifically about Elwood Writers. ‘How to Maintain a Thriving Writers Group’ is online now at The Writing Life on Lee’s website. Details in the announcement from Elwood Writers here.

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  • It’s a huge thrill and honour to have been a finalist in this year’s Queensland Literary Awards. Broken Rules and Other Stories was one of five books shortlisted for the University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection. Thanks so much to the judges and everyone involved in the awards. I…

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  • My flash stories ‘Glassy’, ‘Afterdark’, and ‘First Day Of Summer’ are included in the 2021 edition of American Writers Review, published by San Fedele Press. The theme of this latest issue of the literary journal is ‘turmoil and recovery’. More info below, in a post from Elwood Writers.

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  • Two recent reviews of Every Second Tuesday, from author Ann McCauley on BookBub, and Bruce Gillespie in SF Commentary No.105.

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