short fiction

  • Fisher Girls | Island

    One of my short stories is published in Island today. You can read ‘Fisher Girls’ here. I hope you like it. While you’re there, why not check out some of the other content. Since our beginnings in 1979 (as The Tasmanian Review), Island’s mission has remained the same: to produce a magazine with a national

    Read more →

  • Coming up …

    This Friday I’ll be chatting about Broken Rules and Other Stories with Paul J Laverty on The Quiet Carriage. The Quiet Carriage is a dedicated literature show all about books and authors, on MAINfm out of Castlemaine. You can listen live on the radio or online on Friday 1:00pm till 2:00pm, and the program will

    Read more →

  • Colours

    When he’s nostalgic, it’s pale blue like seaside cottages. Circling seagulls in morning harbours, old-fashioned cream cakes, the damp wood of rickety beach-huts. Ease is liquid green, like late summer afternoons. The lazy buzz of insects in settled heat, the sweet anticipation of the evening ahead. Anxious is the colour of commuters in a cold

    Read more →

  • Short Is Sweet

    In the end it is the mystery that lasts and not the explanation. Sacheverell Sitwell, For Want of the Golden City A few months ago a friend recommended I read a short story by the English writer Robert Aickman. ‘The Real Road to the Church’ is in the collection Cold Hand in Mine (1975), and

    Read more →

  • Careering on the radio

    A careers officer gets more than they bargained for when meeting schoolboy Mike for the last appointment of the day. Thanks to Tim McQueen for reading my short story ‘Careering’ on last week’s edition of Vision Australia Radio’s Cover to Cover. If you missed the original broadcast, you can listen to the podcast of the

    Read more →

Designed with WordPress