Through February I was privileged to write a progressive story with a bunch of primary school kids from all across South Australia. “Escape From Thorngate Hall” has thirty chapters; I wrote the first and last. The rest was entirely up to the kids. Each chapter was published in the Adelaide Advertiser one day at a […]
The Wide Open Road is a monthly broadcast featuring “writers, musicians and radio types” from a live venue in Adelaide, and on July 25 I was honoured to be among them. I read four pieces of flash fiction. Three of them, “This Empire’s Son“, “Artistic License” and “Tailgate Fume“, have been published before. The second one, […]
While I wait for a couple of new Twinmaker stories to appear (soon!) I’ve been busy on a couple of other fronts. Here are two posts that touch at least generally on themes that have appeared here. “So I Won The Listserve And This Is What I Wrote” The Listserve is a mailing list with […]
I’m deeply honoured that my story “The Legend Trap” has been nominated in the novella category of the 2015 Ditmar Awards.It’s a story I’m particular proud of – a slightly more meta riff on the urban myths I’ve been writing to accompany the Twinmaker series, one that I hope is chilling in its own right. […]