Short Stories

 

My Stories – Competitions and Publication

2010 – 2012

The Size of a Fingernail was a finalist in the 2010 Joseph Furphy Commemorative Literary Prize

Tread Carefully was a finalist in the 2010 Joseph Furphy Commemorative Literary Prize

Reading the Water (published in The Umbrella’s Shade and other award-winning stories, Stringybark Publishing, 2011)

A Bouquet of Lettuces (published in Marngrook and other award winning stories, Stringybark Publishing, 2012)

To My Sister, Hessie Burke (published in Marngrook and other award winning stories, Stringybark Publishing, 2012)

The Road Home won the 2011 Stringybark Short Story Award (published in The Road Home and other award winning stories, Stringybark Publishing, 2011) and Award Winning Australian Writing (Melbourne Books, 2012).  Buy a copy at: http://www.melbournebooks.com.au/awaw.html

The Solution won the 2011 AlburyCity Short Story Competition.

I Hear them was short-listed in the 2011 Country Style Short Story Competition and later (published in Tainted Innocence and other award winning stories, Stringybark Publishing, 2012)

Dancing on Grass was commended in the 2011 Grampians Writers Literary Awards (published in fourW twenty-three, fourWpress 2012)

Strawberry Toes was a finalist in the 2011 Joseph Furphy Commemorative Literary Prize and won the 2013 Eastwood /Hills FAW Short Story Competition

Ladies, Please Bring a Plate was short-listed in the 2011 Elyne Mitchell Rural Women’s Writing Award and won first prize in the 2012 Yarra Plenty Regional Library Short Story Writing Competition (published in Write Now! Busybird Publishing, 2012)

Road Rage was Highly Commended in the 2011 FAW Angelo B. Natoli Short Story Award and was placed 2^nd in The Society of Women Writers Victoria Inc Biennial Literary Awards

Things that are found in trees won the 2012 Margaret River Press Short Story Competition (published in the anthology Things that are found in trees & other stories, Margaret River Press, 2012)

Saffron won the 2012 Country Style Short Story Competition (published in Country Style, August 2012) and Award Winning Australian Writing (Melbourne Books, 2013).

So Thin was short-listed for the 2012 Country Style Short Story Competition and won the 2012 AlburyCity Short Story Competition and later (published in Country Style, January 2013).

In the Web was a finalist in the 2012 Joseph Furphy Commemorative Literary Prize and was awarded third place in the 2012 page seventeen Short Story Competition (published in page seventeen Issue 10, Busybird Publishing, 2012)

Especially to Women won the Booranga Prize for the best short story in fourW twenty-three (published in fourW twenty-three, fourW press, 2012)

Soldier (published in Behind the Wattle & other award winning stories, Stringybark Press, 2012)

2013 – 2014

Bowled won the 2013 Queensland Day Story Competition

Stage Love was short-listed in the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Award and was Commended In the Eastwood/Hills FAW Literary Competition 2014

Men’s Shed was Highly Commended in the 2013 Lyndall Hadow Donald Stuart Short Story Competition (FAWWA), placed 2^nd in The Mornington Peninsula Prize 2013 and The Ethel Webb Bundell Literary Award 2014 (new title Tracings)

Sleeping Diagonally was published in fourW twenty-four, fourW press, 2013

Scenes from a disappearance was short- listed (the final 9) for the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Competition, 2013

Stone Skeleton won the 2013 Rolf Boldrewood Literary Award (Macquarie Regional Library Dubbo) and published in Award Winning Australian Writing (Melbourne Books, 2014)

Seedlings won the 2014 FAW Angelo B Natoli Short Story Award and is published in Award Winning Australian Writing (Melbourne Books, 2014).

Tailwind was placed 2nd in the Bundaberg Writers’ Club Short Story Competition, 2014 and won first prize in the 2014 Yarra Plenty Regional Library Short Story Writing Competition (published in Write Now! Busybird Publishing, 2014)

Unleashed won the Eastwood/Hills FAW Literary Competition 2014

The Dotted Line was Highly Commended in the 2014 Tabor Adelaide Creative Writing Awards and published as Sign on the Dotted Line in Country Style, January, 12014

The Dotted Line, Lipstick and Mirrors and Cicada Summer (published in Side by Side & other award winning stories, Stringybark Press, 2014)

No Bigger than My Thumb (published in The Tick-Tock Heart & other award winning stories, Stringybark Press, 2014)

Writer’s Retreat won the Booranga Prize for the best short story in fourW twenty-five (published in fourW twenty-five, fourW press, 2014)

Protest (published in page seventeen Issue 11, Busybird Publishing, 2014)