What to do during lockdown…

No writers’ festivals, no markets, no NovaCons or meetings… Plus the publishing world moving extra-slowly. The answer is to turn to short fiction, which I’m very much enjoying. Maybe one day I’ll have my own collection. In reverse order of years, here’s what’s afoot:

2023

‘Lady Marian’s Gambit’ in Cursed Shards, edited by Leanbh Pearson, Black Hare Press Australia, forthcoming February 2023

‘Ione and the Sea Demon’ in Ancient Gods edited by Charlotte Daniels, Black Ink Fiction USA, forthcoming first half of 2023.

2022

‘The Last Dance’ in Winter Shocks, edited by Brandi Hicks and Shelly Jarvis, Black Ink Fiction USA , January 2022.

‘Starting Over’ in New Tales of Old Volume II: Wolves Among Us, edited by Brandi Hicks and Shelly Jarvis, Black Ink Fiction USA , March 2022.

‘A Beechy Boy’ in Where the Weird Things Are Vol 1: a travel guide to the freaky and fantastic in Australia and Aotearoa, edited by Clare Rhoden and Austin P. Sheehan, Deadset Press Australia, May 2022.

 

‘Olwen in the Underworld’ in Fantasy on Four Feet, edited by Clare Rhoden, Black Ink Fiction USA, June 2022.

 

 

 

 

‘A Winter Respite’ in From the Waste Land: stories inspired by TS Eliot, edited by Clare Rhoden, PS Publishing UK, forthcoming October 2022. I’ve written a lot about this project: find out more here.

2021

‘Winter Icing’ in Candy Capers: a Raven & Drake anthology in aid of The Brain Tumour Charity, compiled by Kate Campbell and Gemma Paul, edited by Gemma Paul, Raven & Drake, May 2021.

‘An Unexpected Arrival’ in Crown Affairs: Royal Entanglements of Steamy Proportions, edited by Brandi Hicks and Shelly Jarvis, Paramour Ink USA, September 2021.

‘The Crossing’ in New Tales of Old Volume I, 2nd Edition, edited by Brandi Hicks and Shelly Jarvis, Black Ink Fiction USA, November 2021. 1st edition May 2022 by Raven & Drake.

2020

‘The Wooing of Sweetheart’ in Stories of Hope: a bushfire relief anthology, compiled by the Australian Speculative Fiction Group, Deadset Press Australia, February 2020.

‘Just Between You and Me’ in Cancer: speculative fiction inspired by the Zodiac, edited by Austin P Sheehan and Helena McAuley, Deadset Press Australia, June 2020.

‘A Changeling of Aslan’ in Leo: speculative fiction inspired by the Zodiac, edited by Austin P Sheehan, Deadset Press Australia,  June 2020.

‘Across the Ditch’ in Oz is Burning, edited by Phyllis Irene Radford, B Cubed Press USA, August 2020