Short Fiction

The weird, the wounded, and the wrong.

Short fiction and humour published in literary journals and magazines. Follow the links to read at the original publications; some require a subscription or purchase.

• Resuscitate — Wigleaf
  Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2024
• Axolotl Soup — Pithead Chapel
  Nominated for Best Small Fictions, 2024
• The Jump from Piper Alpha — trampset
  Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2025
• Waiting to say goodbye — Necessary Fiction
• Psalm 23 — X-R-A-Y
• Free Fallin’ — SmokeLong Quarterly
  Finalist, A SmokeLong Summer Prize, 2023
• Solemnly Swear — JMWW
• 2 Samuel 18 — South Florida Poetry Journal
• What are the plans for the weekend? — Chestnut Review
• The Handyman — Meetinghouse, volume iii (print issue)
• As Kites Have A Want To Do — BULL
• Know Before Whom Thou Dost Stand — BULL
• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness — Major 7th Magazine
• My New Girlfriend’s Family Are Notable Taxidermists — The Offing
• Mrs Beatrix — X-R-A-Y
• Wild Gazelle — SmokeLong Quarterly
  Finalist, The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, 2025
• Irreconcilable Differences — Lunch Ticket
  Longlisted, Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions, 2025
• Dewdrops — hex
• Bad Behaviour — BULL
• Who got what? — HAD
• Flight Attendant Fight School — McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
• We Banned Screens On Our Holiday, Now We’re All Addicted To Heroin — Slackjaw
• Honest Agenda for Your Next Team Building Meeting — The Cooper Review
• New Apps for Agoraphobes and Homebodies — Defenestration

Awards and recognition

• Longlisted, The SmokeLong Workshop Prize, 2024
• Longlisted, A SmokeLong Summer Prize — Fiction, 2024
• Shortlisted, A SmokeLong Summer Prize — Creative Nonfiction, 2024
• Varuna House Writer’s Space Fellow, 2023 — Teeth Kicker
• Longlisted, ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2015 — two stories
• Longlisted, ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2014
• Longlisted, ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2013