Publications

Novels:

  • Perfections (Xoum, December 2012; Twelfth Planet Press, 2014)
    • Winner: 2012 Aurealis Award
    • Winner: 2012 Australian Shadows Award
    • Nominated: 2013 Ditmar Award
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  • Madigan Mine (Picador, July 2010; Twelfth Planet Press, 2014)
    • Winner: 2010 Aurealis Award
    • Winner: 2011 Chronos Award
    • Nominated: 2010 Australian Shadows Award
    • Nominated: 2011 Ditmar Award

Collections:

Short Stories/Novellas:

  • “The Orange Couch” – Antithesis Journal Volume 30: Mental (University of Melbourne, 2020)
  • “Mourning Time” – Grieve Vol.7 (Hunter Writers Centre, 2019)
    • Winner: Pettigrew Family Funerals Award (Grieve Writing Competition)
  • “Triquetra” – Tor.com (Sept 2018) | Kindle | iTunes | BN
    • Nominated: 2018 Aurealis Award
    • Nominated: 2019 Ditmar Award
    • Nominated: 2019 Norma K Hemming Award
  • “Sleeping Dogs” – Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2 (eds. Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens, IFWG Publishing Australia, 2018)
  • “Braid” – Review of Australian Fiction (Volume 24, Issue 1, 2017)
  • “Burnt Sugar” – Dreaming in the Dark (ed. Jack Dann, PS Publishing Australia, 2016)
    • Winner: 2016 Aurealis Award
  • “Accidents Happen” – In Your Face (FableCroft, 2016)
  • “Self, Contained” – The Dark (Issue 10, November 2015)
    • Nominated: 2015 Aurealis Award
    • Reprinted: Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 (ed. Talie Helene & Liz Gryzb)
  • “A Song for First Hours” – SQ Mag (Edition 20, April 2015)
    • Reprinted: Star Quake 4 (ed. Sophie Yorkston, IFWG Publishing, 2017)
  • “Mary, Mary” – Cranky Ladies of History (FableCroft, 2015)
    • Reprinted: The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2016 (ed. Paula Guran, Prime)
  • “By the Moon’s Good Grace” – Review of Australian Fiction (Volume 12, Issue 3, 2014)
    • Nominated: 2014 Aurealis Award
    • Reprinted: Beyond the Woods (ed. Paula Guran, Nightshade Books, 2016)
  • “The Home for Broken Dolls” – Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press, 2013)
    • Winner: 2014 Ditmar Award
    • Nominated: 2013 Aurealis Award
  • “What Amanda Wants” – Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press, 2013)
    • Nominated: 2014 Ditmar Award
  • “Caution: Contains Small Parts” – Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press, 2013)
  • “Horn” – Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press, 2013)
  • “Partisan” – Suburban Jungle (Tasmaniac Publications, 2013)
  • “Lost and Found” – Review of Australian Fiction (Volume 5, Issue 2, 2013)
  • “Frostbitten” –  More Scary Kisses (Ticonderoga Publications, 2011)
    • Reprinted: Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 (ed. Talie Helene & Liz Gryzb)
  • “We All Fall Down” – Aurealis No.44 (2010)
    • Reprinted: Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Vol.22 (ed. Stephen Jones)
    • Honourable Mention: Best Horror of the Year (ed. Ellen Datlow)
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  • “Monsters Among Us” – Macabre (Brimstone Press, 2010)
    • Nominated: 2010 Bram Stoker Award
    • Honourable Mention: Best Horror of the Year (ed. Ellen Datlow)
  • “She Said” – Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books, 2010)
    • Reprinted: Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010 (ed. Talie Helene & Liz Gryzb)
    • Reprinted: Novascapes, Vol.1 (ed. Cassandra E. Page)
    • Winner: 2010 Australian Shadows Award
    • Winner: 2011 Ditmar Award
  • “Soon the Teeth” – AntipodeanSF No.128 (2009)
    • Read it online here.
  • “Indigo in Absentia” – Southerly No.68/3 (2008)
  • “Painlessness” – Greatest Uncommon Denominator No.2 (2008)
    • Winner: 2008 Aurealis Award
    • Winner: 2009 Ditmar Award
    • Winner: 2009 Chronos Award
    • Honourable Mention: Best Horror of the Year (ed. Ellen Datlow)
    • Honourable Mention: Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (ed. Rich Horton)
    • Reprinted: The Year’s Best Australian SF & Fantasy Five (ed. Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt)
    • Reprinted: Body Shocks (ed. Ellen Datlow)
    • Preview and purchase it online here.
  • “Golden” – Island No.110 (2007)
  • “Shadow Puppet” – FlashSpec No.2 (Equilibrium Books, 2007)
  • “Somewhere Else: Jane” – Mitch? No.4 (2006)
  • “Cold” – Shadowed Realms No.9 (2006)
    • Nominated: 2006 Ditmar Award
    • Honourable Mention: Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (ed. Datlow, et al)
    • Read it online here
  • “The Truth About Pug Roberts” – Southern Blood (Sandglass Press, 2003)
    • Nominated: 2003 Ditmar Award
    • Honourable Mention: Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (ed. Datlow, et al)
  • “RavensPerch: A Faerie Tale” – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Vol.1 No.5 (2003)
  • “Louisa” – Redsine No.7 (2002)
  • “Silver and Gold, My Love, Silver and Gold” – Tourniquet Heart (Prime Books, 2002)
    • Read it online here
  • “Smile for Me” – RedsineNo.6  (2001)
    • Honourable Mention: 2001 Aurealis Award
    • Honourable Mention: Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (ed. Datlow, et al)
  • “Tears for Broken Toys” –  Bloodsongs No.8 (1997)
  • “Red” – Cosmopolitan(June 1996)
    • Reprinted: Cosmopolitan Book of Erotic Fiction (1996)
  • “Every Time She Spoke His Name” – Skintomb No. 7 (1996)
  • “Running with the Gods” – SkintombNo.6 (1995)
    • Honourable Mention: Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (ed. Datlow, et al)
  • “And the Moon Yelps” – BloodsongsNo.3 (1994)
    • Reprinted: Cold Cuts No.2 (1995)
  • “Rage” –  Shadows of Life (1994)
  • “The Publican’s Tale” –  Opus (1994)
  • “Softly, Softly Tread the Night” – Opus (1993)
  • “I Am the Silent Voyeur” –  Daarke Worlde No.3 (1993)

Poetry:

  • “Eurydice: a triptych” – Cordite Poetry Review (ed. Nathan Curnow, May 2019)
  • “ARKhive” – Weathering the Future (December 2018)
  • “Stay Sharp” – Words on Theme (ed. Craig Coulson, 2018)
  • “Strong Female Character” – The Feminist Wire (May 2016)
  • “Feather” – Black Box (Brimstone Press, 2008)
  • “Satan to His Love” – Daarke Worlde No.4 (1993).

Non-Fiction:

  • Despite What the Stories Say: Introduction to “Braid” – Marvels & Tales, Vol.35 No.1 (2021)
  • Never Afters: Female Friendship and Collaboration in Contemporary Re-visioned Fairy Tales by Women – Exegesis component of PhD thesis, Federation University Australia (2020)
    • Winner: 2020 Aurealis Convenors’ Award for Excellence