Fiction Writer

Publications & Prizes
Recognitions/Wins
Featured in Literary Journal (Issue 24) and selected for the Ginosko Substack Spotlight Series by Editors (2024)
Highly praised by Midwest Book Review for The Pacifist (2017)Drunken Druid Editor's Choice, DD Book Awards, The Pacifist (2018)
First Place_Academy of the Heart and Mind Flowers Contest The Phases of the Moon, May (2022)
Waterloo Writing Competition, Dolly, May (2020)
Ayaskala Literary Magazine, Rain and Coffee (2023)
Cabinet-of-Heed Stream-of-Consciousness Challenge Drawer Four Black Mirror, April (2020)
Nominations
- Best Small Fictions
The Stretch (Boudin, 2025)
- Best of the Net
Interlude (Literarti Magazine, 2020),
Elysium (Flash Fiction North, 2020) Number Ninety-Four (Decolonial Passage, 24/2025)
Of The Blue Evening (The Gorko Gazette, 2025)
- Pushcarts
Ylem (PaperDjinn, 2020)
Paradox of Love (Centaur Iit, 2026)
James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, Gatherings (Bridgehouse Publishing, 2021)
- Ditmar Eligibility List
2026 Ditmar Award Eligibility—Best Short Story category for “Cloudfields” published in AntipodeanSF 318. Recognised among top Australian speculative fiction works of 2025.
2025 Ditmar Award Eligibility—Best Short Story category for “Maya” published in AntipodeanSF 305. Recognised among top Australian speculative fiction works of 2024.
2021 Ditmar Award Eligibility—Best Novella category for Offing and The Cheshire Grins: The Blue,Red Lyrae published in Impspired Magazine. Recognised among top Australian speculative fiction works of 2020.
2019 Ditmar Award Eligibility—Best Short Story category for “7th Sky” published in Spillwords Press. Recognised among top Australian speculative fiction works of 2018.
2016 Ditmar Award Eligibility—Best Novella category for “Moirae” published by Createspace and Cosmic Teapot Publishing. Recognised among top Australian speculative fiction works of 2015.
- Best of
Alien Buddha Zine: The Script (2024)
The Gorko Gazette: Of The Blue Evening (Readers Favorite Fiction, 2023)
Finalist/Shortlist
Top Fantasy Shortlist, Editor’s Choice Award: Exemplary Eclectic Fiction | Freedom Fiction Journal (2025)-"Around the Bend" and "Flamenco"
Finalist Fourth Adelaide Literary Award Contest Flower Girl, February (2020)
Semi-finalist Alien Buddha Zine House of Horrors, The Yellow God (2024)
- Honorable Mention
Weavers of Words contest Unpublished Platform Silent Bleat, March (2022)
- Best ofs/10 Most Read Stories
Paint the City Red, AntipodeanSF (2025)
Cloud-fields, AntipodeanSF (2025)
Nacre, Impspired Magazine (2022)
Scent, Impspired Magazine (2022)
No Life On Mars, Impspired Magazine (2021)
Perforation, Impspired Magazine (2021)
Dirge, Impspired Magazine (2020)
Dear Father, Impspired Magazine, 2025
The Other, Mad Swirl, 3.21.26
The Lament, Mad Swirl, 9.21.24
City Smell, Mad Swirl, 01.20.24
Vape, Mad Swirl, 3.11.23
Space, Mad Swirl, 7.22.23
River of Melted Chocolate, Alien Buddda (2023)
Bats Downunder, CafeLit8: Writer's Choice (2019)
- Author Spotlight
Deep well, Alien Buddha, 2023
River of Melted Chocolate, Popshot Quarterly, 2023
Deadfly, EthelZine, 2024
Collector's Item, BlazeVox, spring 2024
- Amazon Best Sellers
The Pacifist #7 Best Seller in Hot New Release List Amazon
The Pacifist Audio Best Seller Amazon





