Writing

Tin Hares

KalliopeX

My short story, ‘Tin Hares’, was published in the 2025 spring issue of KalliopeX.

In your new bedroom, furnished with the nursing home’s signature varnished pine, you rise from your bed.
Pick the skin around your blackened, blue-collared fingernails, wondering why your daughter has brought you here. Her stuffed bear, which she’d cuddled as a kid, grins next to the framed strangers on your bedside table.

Dark clouds bathe the room in sombre grey, like your mood. You can’t remember why you stood up.

Papamosque

Newcastle Short Story Award

‘Papamosque’ received second prize in the 2023 Newcastle Short Story Award. It was published in the 2023 Anthology.

The Lucky Country

The Furphy Anthology

‘The Lucky Country’ was awarded third prize in the 2023 Furphy Literary Awards. It was published in the 2023 Furphy Anthology.

Where Idle Weeds Grow

Wyndham Writing Awards

‘Where Idle Weeds Grow’ was shortlisted for the Wyndham Writing Awards. It was published in the 2023 Anthology.

Winter is for Regret

The Furphy Anthology

‘Winter is for Regret’ received third prize in the 2022 Furphy Literary Awards. It was published in the 2022 Furphy Anthology.

James Bond Goes Fly-fishing

Untitled Anthology

‘James Bond goes Fly-fishing’ was published in Issue 10 of Busybird Publishing’s Anthology, Untitled in 2022. The story was longlisted for the Untitled Short Story Competition.

Before the War

Post Hoc: An Anthology

‘Before the War’ was published in RMIT University PWE’s Post Hoc: An Anthology in 2018

Renegade gardeners take fight to councils in race to beat the heat

ABC News

‘Renegade gardeners take fight to councils in race to beat the heat’ was published on ABC News in 2019.

It’s a Sunday morning in Pascoe Vale South, a northern suburb of Melbourne, and Serena Everill is digging in her front garden.

She stops when she sees me, and we walk to her nature strip where a small raised garden bed sits not quite flush with the kerb. A few tiny seedlings sprout from the dirt: basil left over from summer, silver beet and leek.

Serena, a member of the Moreland Food Gardens Network, lobbied her local council for over a decade so residents could grow food on their nature strips.

“A whole mob of us got involved,” she says. “It took us years, maybe even 12 years of advocating to council to get a policy around growing food on Moreland’s natures strips.”

Seven years after … seven years older

Neo Kosmos

‘Seven years after … seven years older’ was published in Neo Kosmos in 2018.

Remembering Greek Cypriot filmmaker Anna Kannava, her struggle, her vision and the experience of making a guerrilla film in Paris

Holding onto my father's precious memories

SBS Voices

‘Holding onto my father’s precious memories’ was published in SBS Voices in 2018.

I once took stories of my dad’s childhood in Malta for granted. Now all I want to do is catch them, hold onto them, before they disappear, forever.