Edited publications

Managing Editor, HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Web Log, 2005 to present

Guest Editor (with Angela Challis), Midnight Echo #2, 2009

Creative Director, Shadowed Realms, 2004 to 2008

Editor, Black Box e-anthology (Brimstone Press), March 2008

Co-editor (with Angela Challis), Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition (Brimstone Press), 2006

Co-editor (with Angela Challis), Shadow Box e-anthology (Brimstone Press), 2005

Co-editor (with Nigel Read), Tales from the Sunburnt Realm, forthcoming

Co-editor (with Robert N Stephenson), Robots & Time (Altair Australia Books), 2004


Achievements

Judge: Australian Shadows Award, 2008

Mentor: Australian Horror Writers Association (mentor programme), 2008

Convenor: Aurealis Awards (Horror division), 2007

Judge: Australian Shadows Award, 2007

Columnist 'Horror Down Under': Hellnotes, 2005 to 2006

Graduate: Clarion South writers workshop, 2005


Awards

2008 Galley Club Award Nomination, Best Non-standard Mono/duotone digitally printed book
For design of Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 edition (Brimstone Press), printed by Griffin Digital

2008 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Novella/Novelette
"Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon" (Fantastic Wonder Stories)

2008 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Fan Writer

2008 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Fanzine
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)

2008 William Atheling Jr Award Nomination
HorrorScope review of David Conyers' & John Sunseri's The Spiraling Worm

2008 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
"Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon" (Fantastic Wonder Stories)

2008 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
"The Cutting Room" (Gratia Placenti)

2008 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Fan Production
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)

2008 Aurealis Award Nomination, Young Adult short story
"Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon" (Fantastic Wonder Stories)

2007 Ditmar Award, Best Fanzine
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)


2007 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best New Talent

2007 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Fan Writer

2007 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
"Colossus of Roads" (Ticonderoga Online #9)

2007 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
"Prescience" (Borderlands #8)

2006 Ditmar Award, Best Fan Writer

2006 Ditmar Award Nomination, Best Fanzine
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)

2006 Australian Shadows Award Finalist
Shadow Box e-anthology (with Angela Challis)

2006 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
"Ian" (Ticonderoga Online #5)

2006 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Short Fiction
"Hear No Evil" (Borderlands #4)

2006 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Production
Shadow Box e-anthology (with Angela Challis)

2006 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Fan Production
HorrorScope (edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings et al.)

2006 Aurealis Award Highly Commended, Horror short story
"Revision is Murder" (Simulacrum #11)

2005 Tin Duck Award Nomination, Best Professional Fiction
"Sobek's Tears" (Aurealis #33-35)


Collections

SHARDS: Forty Short Sharp Tales - Ticonderoga Publications, forthcoming
(Illustrated by Andrew J McKiernan)

IN THE HEART OF MIDNIGHT - forthcoming


Short Stories
(in publication order)

A Picture of Death - Voices (Morrigan Books), forthcoming

Home - Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books), forthcoming

Box-Shaped Heart - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales (Ticonderoga Publications), forthcoming

Virgin in the Mist - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

Firewall - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

Wrack - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

Stop - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

Shadow of Revenge - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

Due Date - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

Practical Joke - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

A Reason to Murder - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

Interlude, With Lavender - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

Nuclear Summer - Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming

Chasing Jormungand - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #35, forthcoming

The Black Door - Dark Wisdom, forthcoming

Dark Heart Alley (An Urban Fable) - Macabre: A Journey Through Australian Horror (Brimstone Press), forthcoming

Requiem for the Burning God - Cthulhu's Dark Cults (Chaosium), forthcoming

Song of the Infernal Machine - Doorways #3, forthcoming
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Midnight on the Jetty - Dark Wisdom, forthcoming

The Cutting Room - Gratia Placenti (Apex Book Company), December 2007
Paura 4 [Spanish translation] (Bibliopolis), forthcoming
Pseudopod (podcast), forthcoming
Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2008 edition (Brimstone Press) (reprint), forthcoming

Memoirs of a Teenage Antichrist - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #31, September 2007
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Beneath Southern Waves - Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monster Tales (Agog! Press), June 2007

Dread Seasons Quartet: The Rustle of Autumnal Leaves - Antipodean SF #108, May 2007
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Dread Seasons Quartet: Naked Azure Sky - Antipodean SF #107, April 2007
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon - Fantastic Wonder Stories (Ticonderoga Publications), April 2007

Itch - Horror Literature Quarterly #1, April 2007
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Dread Seasons Quartet: Pallid Wisps of Snow - Horror Carousel #5, April 2007
Antipodean SF #109, June 2007
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Dread Seasons Quartet: Rainbow-Speckled Field - Antipodean SF #106, March 2007
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Genesis Six - Apex Digest #8, January 2007
Best of Apex 2006 (Apex Book Company) (reprint), May 2007
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Stealing Fire - Book of Shadows Volume One (Brimstone Press), December 2006
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Prescience - Borderlands #8, October 2006
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Spin the Witch Bottle - Shadowed Realms #11, October 2006
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Colossus of Roads - Ticonderoga Online #9, September 2006

Fridge - Antipodean SF #100, September 2006
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

The Garden Shed Pact - Borderlands #7, June 2006
Apex Online, May 2007 (reprint)
Horrifique #35 [French translation] (reprint), forthcoming
Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 edition (Brimstone Press) (reprint), December 2007

Postcard from Paris (A Reply) - shorthorror.com, April 2006
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Love in the Land of the Dead - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #22, February 2006
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Vows - Ripples #3, January 2006

Congo Jenga - Shadowed Realms #8, November 2005
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Cruel Summer series: Shadow - Shadow Box, November 2005
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Cruel Summer series: Surf - Shadow Box, November 2005
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Cruel Summer series: Sky - Shadow Box, November 2005
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Cruel Summer series: Sun - Shadow Box, November 2005
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Cruel Summer series: Sand - Shadow Box, November 2005
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Ian - Ticonderoga Online #5, October 2005

A Killer Smile - Antipodean SF #88, September 2005
Shadowed Realms promotional bookmark, 2005
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Revision is Murder - Simulacrum #11, July 2005
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

The Snake of Ragnar Rock Canyon - Antipodean SF #83, April 2005

Dying Roses - Love Lines (PCWC), February 2005
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Hear No Evil - Borderlands #4, February 2005
Dark Wisdom, forthcoming (reprint)

Sobek's Tears - Aurealis #33-35, December 2004
Nowa Fantastyka #279 [Polish translation], December 2005 (reprint)
Black Eden, forthcoming (reprint)

Smouldering Eyes - Flash Shot #760, 6 December, 2004
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

The Raid - Fighting Chance, Winter Issue, December 2004

On the Nature of Evil - Project M zine, Tantaloz Issue, November 2004
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

The Mirror Speaks - Flash Shot #751, 27 November, 2004
Antipodean SF #94, March 2006 (reprint)

Beneath the Door - Flash Shot #743, 19 November, 2004

Siege - Marginata #8, November 2004

Countdown Macabre - Flash Shot #662, 13 August 2004
Antipodean SF #76, September 2004 (reprint)
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Web - Flash Shot #653, 4 August 2004

Bump in the Night - Antipodean SF #74, July 2004
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)

Hell - Flash Shot #595, 7 June 2004

On Dark Clouds Borne - Antipodean SF #72, May 2004
Dark Wisdom #11, forthcoming (reprint)
Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales, forthcoming (reprint)


Competitions

Winner for Postcard from Paris (A Reply)
Shorthorror.com flash fiction contest 2006

Quarter Finalist for Chasing Jormungand
L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest, 3rd quarter, 2006

Highly Commended for Ian
KSP Science Fiction/Fantasy short story competition 2005

Quarter Finalist for Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon
L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest, 3rd quarter, 2005

Quarter Finalist for Genesis Six
L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest, 4th quarter, 2004

Quarter Finalist for Blasphemy on Eight Wheels
L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest, 3rd quarter, 2004


Year's Best honours

The Cutting Room (reprinted)
Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2008 edition (Ed. Angela Challis, 2008)

The Garden Shed Pact (reprinted)
Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2007 edition (Ed. Angela Challis, 2007)

Genesis Six (Honourable Mention)
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 20th annual collection (Ed. Datlow, Link & Grant, 2007)

Prescience (Honourable Mention)
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 20th annual collection (Ed. Datlow, Link & Grant, 2007)

Stealing Fire (Recommended Reading List)
Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume Three (Ed. Congreve & Marquardt, 2007)

Cruel Summer (Sky) (Honourable Mention)
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 19th annual collection (Ed. Datlow, Link & Grant, 2006)

Ian (Honourable Mention)
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 19th annual collection (Ed. Datlow, Link & Grant, 2006)

Hear No Evil (Honourable Mention)
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 19th annual collection (Ed. Datlow, Link & Grant, 2006)

Revision is Murder (Recommended Reading List)
Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume Two (Ed. Congreve & Marquardt, 2006)

Countdown Macabre (Recommended Reading List)
Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume One (Ed. Congreve & Marquardt, 2005)


Poetry

Endless Slumber - An Endless Place anthology, 1999


Non-Fiction

Bill Congreve interview - HorrorScope, February 2008

Nathan Burrage interview - HorrorScope, January 2008

I Am Legend (film) review - HorrorScope, January 2008

Horror in 2007 editorial - HorrorScope, January 2008

The Spiraling Worm review - HorrorScope, August 2007

David Conyers interview - HorrorScope, August 2007

John Sunseri interview - HorrorScope, August 2007

Black Gate #9 review - HorrorScope, November 2006

Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts by George Zebrowski review - Ticonderoga Online #9, October 2006

Flashspec Volume 1 (ed. Cladingboel) review - HorrorScope, August 2006

Martin Livings interview - HorrorScope, June 2006

The Crow: Wicked Prayer movie review - HorrorScope, April 2006

Basic Instinct 2 movie review - HorrorScope, April 2006

March column - 'Horror Down Under', Hellnotes, March 2006

February column - 'Horror Down Under', Hellnotes, February 2006

The CSFG Gastronomicon (ed. Barrow) review - HorrorScope, January 2006

January column - 'Horror Down Under', Hellnotes, January 2006

The Brothers Grimm movie review - HorrorScope, December 2005

Confessions of a Pod Person by Chuck McKenzie review - HorrorScope, December 2005

November column - 'Horror Down Under', Hellnotes, November 2005

Horror in 2005 editorial - HorrorScope, November 2005

'Halloween Down Under' - 'Horror Down Under' column, Hellnotes, October 2005

Night Watch movie review - HorrorScope, October 2005

'The Dark Age Continues' - 'Horror Down Under' column, Hellnotes, September 2005

Bubba Ho-Tep DVD review - HorrorScope, September 2005

Borderlands #5 review - HorrorScope, September 2005

'The Australian Horror Dark Age' - 'Horror Down Under' column, Hellnotes, August 2005