Ticonderoga to publish my first short fiction collection, Crow Shine

So this is news that makes me happier than a drunk in a brewery. Ticonderoga Publications, one of Australia’s premier presses, is going to publish my first collection of short fiction in September. It’s going to be called Crow Shine, and just look at that...

I won the 2015 Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction

I’m still in mild shock, but absolutely chuffed. The Australian Shadows Awards winners were announced last night and I won the Paul Haines Award For Long Fiction for my novella, “In Vaulted Halls Entombed”, which was published in the SNAFU: Survival...

Beechworth Asylum Writers’ Retreat

I just spent three days, and two nights, in a haunted abandoned asylum. It was fantastic fun! Geoff and Dawn run Asylum Ghost Tours from the amazing Bijou Theatre at Beechworth Asylum in country Victoria. They also organise writing retreats there where a bunch of...