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Fractured Reveries: A storied imaginarium salon

‘Sparrow & Butler’ [short story] in Fractured Reveries: A storied imaginarium salon, ed. Carina Bissett, 2025.

  • Shortlisted for Aurealis Awards (Fantasy short story)

‘A woman without’ [poem] in Writing Queensland, Issue 4, 2024.

‘Tree of knowledge: divergence’ [short story] in Inter Librarian Loan, Air and Nothingness Press, 2024.

‘Saltwater story’ [flash fiction] in The Librarian Card Catalogue, Air and Nothingness Press, 2023.

‘The tale of the green maid’ [long poem] in Eldritch & Ether, Black Hare Press, 2022.

‘A void and a chasm and a ruin’ [short story] in Marvels & Tales, Iss. 36, No. 1, 2022.

‘The giant with no heart in her body‘ [short story] in Strange Horizons, 2021.

The giant with no heart in her body, art by Elaine Ho (2021)

‘Our mothers were birds’ [short story] in Hecate, Issue 45, No. 1 & 2, 2020.

‘Six Rusalki’ [short story] in Upon a Once Time, Air and Nothingness Press, 2020.

‘Tell me, whacher, is it winter?’ [short story] in Strange Tales: Tartarus Press at 30, Tartarus Press, 2020.

‘A Song from Bedlam (with apologies to Christopher Smart’ [long poem] in Liminality, Issue 23, Spring 2020.

  • Second place winner, Rhysling Award for poetry (long poem)

‘The Frog’s Prince; or, Iron Henry’ [short story] in Interzone, Issue 282. July 2019.

‘Strange Men’ [poem] in Southerly. Issue 78.3: Violence, 2018.

‘The BeautifulHusband’ [short story] in Social Alternatives. Issue 36.3. You can read a preview here.

‘The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club’ [short story] in Lightspeed , November 2016.

  • republished in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (Volume 10). edited by Jonathan Strahan.
  • republished in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016. edited by Rich Horton

‘Paper Boats‘ [short story] in TEXT, the journal of writing and writing courses, 2015.

‘Candlewick’ [short story] in Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State University Review. Volume 22. Issue 1.

‘Saltpan’ [short story] in Meanjin. Summer 2015.

‘Dear Tip’ [personal essay] in Letters to Tiptree ed Alisa Krasnostein and published by Twelfth Planet Press, 2015.

‘The Nature of Things’ [short story] in Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 13, Issue 4, 2013.

  • ‘The Nature of Things’ was longlisted for the Bridport Prize.

‘The Lost Man’ [short story] in Southerly. February 2014.

‘The Fox’s Child’ [short story] in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 54 (ASIM), 2012.

‘Her Lover’s Golden Hair’ [short story] in Fantasy Magazine. December 2011.

‘Their Golden Daughters’ [short story] in Box of Delights. editor John Kenny. Aeon Press, 2011

‘The Stone Child’ [short story] in the Myths and Legends: An Anthology, available through Specusphere.

‘The Wine-Dark Sea’ [short story] in Kurungabaa. Volume 3. No 2.

‘Gibraltar’ [short story] in The Lifted Brow. 2010.

‘Arboretum’ [short story] in The Lifted Brow. 2009. (re-published in The Best Of The Lifted Brow, Volume One)

‘The Adventures of Aimery and Quilla’ [short story] in The Lifted Brow. October, 2008.

‘Bride of the Deep’ [short story] in The Willows Magazine. June, 2007. (post-published in a slightly different version here)

‘The Secret Cure’ [short story] in Touched By Wonder. October, 2007.

‘The Lighthouse Keeper’ [short story] in Fantastical Visions.

‘Juana and the Dancing Bear’ [short story] in Shimmer. Volume 2, Issue 2. Winter 2007.

  • Reprinted in Best of Shimmer, edited by E Catherine Tobler (May, 2020)

‘A Feather on the Breath of God’ [short story] in Eat Books. March, 2007.

‘Salt’ [short story] in Hidden Desires. Charnwood, ACT. Gininderra Press, 2006: 218-233.

‘True Love’ [short story] in Anti-SF. June, 2006.

‘Elephant’ [flash fiction] in The Courier Mail. September 24, 2005.

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