Bibliography

 
Please see the dropdown menus for details on my published works. Each landing page has a little information, with extra content available through sub-menus.

Novels

  • Blood and Dust
  • The Big Smoke
  • Salvage
  • The Darkness Within
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    Short fiction
     
    Non-fiction
     

    Awards

     
    2019

    • Slither (CDDU vol2): finalist in Aurealis Awards for best horror short story; finalist in the Australian Shadows award for best horror short story.

    2016

    • Dust Eaters (unpublished), 2nd place in the Creative Writing Showcase 2016, WiP Conference, University of Queensland
    • The Big Smoke: finalist in Australian Shadows award for best horror novel

    2013

    • Salvage: Chronos award for best novel; finalist in Ditmar awards for best novel; finalist in Aurealis Awards for best horror novel
    • Blood and Dust: finalist in Aurealis Awards for best horror novel; finalist in Australian Shadows award for best horror novel
    • Mornington Ride (Epilogue): Chronos award for best short story; finalist for WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction

    Other Awards

    • The exegetical component of my PhD thesis, “Watermarks: Science Fiction, Mitigation and the Mosaic Novel Structure in Australian Climate Fiction”, won the 2019 Aurealis Awards Convenors’ Award for Excellence
    • “Stolen Futures”, commended, 2016 AAWP Postgraduate Prize for a Theoretical/Critical Paper, Authorised Theft Conference, University of Canberra
    • “Fragmented Futures”, runner-up, The Dr John McCulloch Memorial Prize 2016, Work in Progress Conference, UQ St Lucia
    • My 2004 article in the Courier-Mail, ‘Why are publishers afraid of horror?’, won the William Atheling Jnr Award for Criticism or Review