(Regional prize in the Newcastle Short Story Award 2025) Labradors, terriers, and kelpies are the household pets and working dogs held in...

(Runner-up 2025 Newcastle Herald Short Story Competition) Harrison puts down his drink, takes a corn chip from the dish, then points it...

( Shortlisted in the 2024 Sydney Hammond Short Story Competition) Lincoln Museum’s Donal MacGregor ran his eyes along the rows of Roman...

(Shortlisted in the 2024 Sydney Hammond Short Story Competition) It’s a grubby classroom with scratched tables, uncomfortable chairs, and...

Entering a writing contest is like any competitive endeavour that involves a crowd, with the exception being that you don’t get to see...

(Shortlisted in the inaugural 2023 Ernestine Hill Memorial Short Story Competition) The spring wind has character. Weaned from its winter...

(Highly Commended - Stringybark Short Story Competition 2024) Today’s work clothes lie folded away from everyone’s feet on the bench...

( Second Place - The Best of Times Short Story Competition 2024) On page 25 of the Times Atlas, Chughanutha Island is a tiny green oyster...

(1st Place in the Stringybark Publishing Erotic Short Story Competition 2023) I’ve come to the Blue Dragon for a back tattoo before...

(1st Place in the Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story competition 2023) Today’s magistrate loathes me. I know because when he looks at my...

(People's Choice Winner in the Newcastle Herald Short Story competition 2023) It was hot, the day we drove to Bingleburra. Dad thought...

(Second place in the Alice Sinclair Memorial Writing Competition 2022) My hands shook when filling the bag and now there’s dust on my...

For those of you out there who write for a hobby, or on the slim chance you are reading this, and you are someone who writes for a...

(Originally submitted to the Best Australian Yarn short story competition 2022, then revised and submitted to the Peter Carey Short Story...

When Sofie asked her mother why she had to give Alice a present, the response was; even when you don’t get along with people, it’s...

Two men stood outside their company boardroom, looking through the glass wall at the assembly inside. ‘Do you think this is a good idea?’...

Submitted to a short story competition on the subject of grieving. Word limit - 500 Night-time Prayer I gave him the penknife your...

Published in the Newcastle Short Story Award 2019 competition Newcastle Short Story Award Anthologies - Hunter Writers Centre Word limit...

The title for this essay is heavier than I’d hoped. I had thought to use something like: Why we don’t care what our...

Last week my Publishing Coordinator posted a blog that sparked a notion in my mind – how often do you read or hear something, from a news...