Writing

Publications

2025 – Ricochet: an anthology of microlit, The Same Face

2025 – The Constancy of Woodpigeons, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Wings

2024 – Bridport Prize Anthology, Love Bite

2024 – Tiny Sparks Everywhere, National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, Today and Tomorrow

2023 – But Words Can Never Hurt Me, Oxford Flash Fiction Anthology, The Shark

2023 – Where the Fairy Tales Go, Hunter Writers Centre, Blue

2023 – Play: an anthology of microlit, Sea Salt

2022 – exhibited, Lighthouse Arts Blue Exhibition, Blue

2022 – Dandelion Years, Bath Flash Fiction Vol. 7, Earth and Rain and In the Rubble, A Butterfly

2021 – Microflix Festival, Earthquake

2020 – Overland 237.5 Autumn Fiction Edition, Unspoken

2020 – Newcastle Herald Short Story Award, The Pinata

2019 – Meniscus Literary Journal, Vol 7, Issue 2, Ruins

2019 – Shuffle, (publisher Spineless Wonders), Earthquake

2018 – Microflix Festival, Koi

2017 – Grieve anthology, Hunter Writers’ Centre, Hanging On

2017 – F(r)iction Literary Journal, No 8, September, Microchimerism

2017 – Newcastle Writers’ Festival, story phone, Koi

2017 – Newcastle Writers’ Festival, short film, Koi

2017 – Newcastle Short Story Award, The Remains

2016 – Flashing the Square, multi-media platform, Koi

2016 – Mascara Literary Review, April, Caught in the Rip

2016 – Sydney Writers’ Festival, Little Fictions Sydney, Koi

2016 – Australian Award Winning Writing, Koi

2016 – Northerly, Sept-Oct,  Joys of Wasting Time

2013 – The Weekend Australian, Travel & Indulgence, Where Silence is Golden

2012 – The Mercreature and Other Stories anthology, Tahitian Sunsets

2012 – Newcastle Herald Short Story Award, The Flood

2011  – Wood, Brick and Stone, Catchfire Press, The Brick

2009 – Cutwater Literary Anthology, Cutwater Press, Cultural Capital

Awards

2025 – shortlisted, Newcastle Writers Festival/joanne burns Microlit Award, The Same Face

2024 – longlisted, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Wings

2024 – shortlisted, Flash500 Competition, Supermarket Flowers

2024 – Third Prize, Bridport Prize Flash Fiction, Love Bite

2024 – shortlisted, National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction, The Matter with Clouds

2024 – shortlisted, National Flash Fiction Day Awards UK, Today and Tomorrow

2023 – Won, Hunter Category, NWF/Joanne Burns Microlit Award, Sea Salt

2023 – shortlisted, Oxford Flash Fiction Award, The Shark

2022 – longlisted, Flash Fiction 500, Road Trip

2022 – longlisted, February Bath Flash Fiction Award, Earth and Rain

2022 – shortlisted, June Bath Flash Fiction Award, In the Rubble, A Butterfly

2019 – longlisted, Flash Fiction 500 Competition, My Son, The Artist

2019 – shortlisted, Albury Short Story Competition, The Artist

2018 – won, Peter Cowan 600 Word Short Story Competition, Heat

2016 – finalist, Newcastle Short Story Award, The Remains

2016 – won Hunter Category, Joanne Burns Microlit Award, Koi

2016 – placed, Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Competition, Caught in the Rip

2016 – finalist, F(r)iction Fall Flash Fiction Competition, Colorado, USA, Microchimerism

2014 – commended, Katharine Susannah Pritchard Short Fiction Award, The Rip

2012 – finalist, Newcastle Short Story Award, Tahitian Sunsets

2009 – placed, Coves Historical Writing Competition, The Dragon Plate

1997 – represented University of Newcastle, JEA OZZIE Awards for Student Journalism, Lost in France