writer of short stories and scripts

 

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Awards & Publications

awards

Short Story
 
Abandon Ship 2nd prize FreeXpresSion Magazine 1999
 
Waiting 2nd prize Eastwood/Hills FAW 1999
 
Biding Time 1st prize Tunarama Eyre Writers 1999
Commended Eastwood/Hills FAW 1999
 
Gracie Commended Moocooboola FAW 1999
Commended E.J. Brady Short Story Competition 2000
Shortlisted Shoalhaven Circle of Excellence 2000
Commended Glen Eira Literary Awards 2001
Commended Mona Brand Award 2001
Highly Commended Far South Coast FAW 2002
Commended Shoalhaven FAW 2003
Highly Commended Hastings FAW 2005
Commended Far North Coast FAW 2005
 
More Than Words Commended FreeXpresSion Magazine 2000
Shortlisted Hastings FAW 2000
Highly Commended Far North Coast FAW 2001
2nd Prize Far South Coast FAW 2001
 
Sweet Siren Voice of Death Shortlisted Shoalhaven Circle of Excellence 2000
1st Prize Sutherland FAW 2003
 
The Last and the First 2nd Prize Queen of Crime 2000
Shortlisted Hastings FAW 2000
 
Simply Simon Commended Shoalhaven FAW Lyrebird 2000
Highly Commended Auswrite Spring Competition 2000
2nd Prize Henry Lawson Grenfell Arts 2001
Outside Highly Commended Eastwood/Hills FAW 2000
Pauline Walsh Memorial Award 2000
Highly Commended Eaglehawk Dahlia 2003
 
The Second Wife  Commended Henry Lawson Grenfell Arts 2001
Highly Commended Eastwood/Hills FAW 2001
Pauline Walsh Memorial Award 2001
Highly Commended Auswrite Spring Competition 2001
Worthy Mention Far North Coast FAW 2002
3rd Prize Sunshine Writers Lit Awards  2003
Shortlisted Macarthur FAW  2003
 
The Confession Highly Commended Eastwood/Hills FAW 2001
Commended Far North Coast FAW 2003
  
Frida’s Organ Shortlisted Glen Eira Awards 2002
Commended Henry Lawson Grenfell Arts 2002
Worthy Mention Far North Coast FAW 2002
Commended Far South Coast FAW 2002
Shortlisted Macarthur FAW 2003
 
The Weather Watch Finalist WriteSpot Autumn Competition  2000
  
Xiao’s Patch Highly Commended Shoalhaven Lyrebird 2002
1st Prize FAW NSW (City) Short Story of the Year 2002
2nd Prize Mornington Peninsula Prize 2002
Shortlisted Shoalhaven Circle of Excellence 2003
Commended Tom Howard Short Story Competition 2004
Finalist Hal Porter Short Story Comp 2005
 
The View From Here Commended Henry Lawson Grenfell Arts 2003
2nd Prize Far North Coast FAW 2003
Shortlisted Shoalhaven Circle of Excellence 2003
 
The Problem With Gilbert  1st Prize Shoalhaven Lyrebird 2003
Commended Far North Coast FAW  2003
  
Thursday 2nd Prize Macarthur FAW 2003
 
Salt and Pepper Finalist Writespot Spring 2003 
Commended Tom Howard 2004
Finalist/published Fish Publishing International Prize 2006
 
How To Bake A Plum Pie Shortlisted Glen Eira 2003
Commended Tom Howard Short Story Competition 2004
1st Prize FAW NSW (City) Short Story of the Year  2004
Highly Commended Australasian Short Story Awards 2004
Commended Ballarat Southern Cross Award 2004
 
The Precious Jewel 1st prize John Kelly Award 2004
  
The Damaged Soul Finalist WriteSpot Autumn 2004 
 
Silence Commended FAW NSW(City) Short Story of the Year 2004
Highly Commended Port Stephens Literary Award 2005
Highly Commended Hastings FAW 2005
1st Prize Gladstone Writers 2005
 
The Cyberstalker Commended Tuggerah FAW 2004
 
The Fires of Hell Highly Commended Port Stephens Literary Award 2005
1st Prize Wimmera Regional Library Award 2005
 
Asylum Highly Commended Manly FAW 2005
2nd Prize Far North Coast 2005
 
A Matter of Trust 1st Prize Manly FAW 2005
1st Prize Dennis Butler Award 2005
 
Once More With Feeling 1st Prize Marjorie Barnard Award 2005
 
When My Mother Dies Commended Eastern Regional Libraries Award 2005
Most Highly Commended Port Stephens Literary Award 2005
 
Pride of the Easter Show Highly Commended The Henry Lawson Society 2006
 
Nothing Happens  1st Prize Biscuit Publishing UK Flash Fiction Award 2007
 
The Raw Prawn Highly Commended Grenfell Henry Lawson Award 2007
 
The Burden of Flesh Highly Commended Grenfell Henry Lawson Award 2007
 
A Necessary Betrayal 1st Prize Whakatane New Zealand Short Story Award 2007
 
Gracie 2nd Prize North Arm Cove FAW 2007
 
Outside 1st Prize North Arm Cove FAW 2007
 
The Raw Prawn Finalist Slippery When Wet Competition  2007
 
Poetry 
 
Full Moon Night Highly Commended Yellow Moon 2004
 
The Watches of the Night 3rd Prize Hastings FAW 2005
Commended Summerland FAW 2005
What’s For Dinner, Love? Highly Commended Macarthur FAW Literary Competition 2006
The Problem Weed  1st Prize Humorous Poetry Grenfell Henry Lawson Award 2007
 
Articles and Memoir 
 
The Negev Commended Eastwood/Hills FAW 2000
  
A Load of Old Bullocky 3rd Prize Hastings FAW 2005
 
The Storyteller  1st Prize Hastings FAW 2005
 
The Enemy Within Commended Port Macquarie/Hastings FAW 2006
 
Eastwood/Hills FAW Intra-Branch Awards
 
Frida’s Organ 1st prize Pauline Walsh Prize
  
The Madjin 1st prize Fantasy chapter 
 
Pride of the Easter Show 1st prize Short, short story 
 
Letter to the publisher  2nd prize Letter to publisher
 
More Than Words 2nd prize Pauline Walsh Prize
 
The Lotto Win 1st prize A story with two endings
 
Senora Fawlty di Cortona 2nd prize Humorous article
 
Living With Gilbert  2nd prize Journal Entry
 
The Guilty Party 1st prize Dialogue
 
The Problem With Gilbert Commended Pauline Walsh Award
 
The Enemy Within 1st prize Article
 
Holiday 1st prize Short Short Story
 
Tender Voice of Treason Commended Romance chapter
 
A Load of Old Bullocky 2nd prize Article
 
Pause 2nd prize Idyll
 
The Storyteller 1st prize Memoir
 
Asylum 1st prize Short Story (Plot)
 
The Fires of Hell  1st prize Pauline Walsh Award 
 
After Darfur 1st prize Collaborative poem with Julie Thorndyke
 
What’s for dinner love?  1st prize Humorous poem
 
The Shadow That Dogs Her 2nd Prize Slippery When Wet Anthology Comp  2007
 
Naked Without A Hanky Finalist  Slippery When Wet Anthology Comp 2007
 
Variations On a Finger Bowl 1st Prize Manly FAW Literary Awards
1st Prize Stroud Writers Literary Awards
2007
2007
 
Admit One Commended Manly FAW 2007
 
Play It Again Highly Commended Far North Coast FAW 2007
 
A Night On The Tiles Worthy Mention Far North Coast FAW 2007
 
Eyewitness Finalist EJ Brady Short Story Award
3rd Prize Pt Stephens Examiner Lit Award

2nd Prize Macarthur FAW Literary Awards
2007
2007
2007
 
Easily Mistaken Highly Comm Macarthur FAW Lit Awards 2007
 
Mouse In, Mouse Out Commended Macarthur FAW Literary Awards
Highly Comm Grenfell Henry Lawson Awards
2007
2008
 
A Degree of Uncertainty Shortlisted Writers Dock (UK) 2007
 
Maddie’s Choice 1st Prize FAW Victoria National Awards 2008
 
In Flames 1st Prize Henry Lawson Gulgong Awards 2008
 

published work

Short Stories
 
The Last and The First  Sydney Partners in Crime Anthology 2000
 
Waiting Wordsmith Anthology 2000
 
Abandon Ship FreeXpresSion Journal 2000
 
Revenge of the Ice Queen Sydney Partners In Crime Anthology 2001 
 
The Second Wife Sunshine Writers Anthology 2003
 
Sweet Siren Voice of Death Writers’ Voice Magazine 2003
 
Ill Met By Moonlight Ginninderra Press Anthology
“The Lover, the Lunatic and the Liar”
2004
 
The Confession “Can A Lyrebird Fly” Anthology 2004
 
Once More With Feeling Writer’s Voice Magazine 2005
 
Salt & Pepper Fish Annual Anthology 2006
 
Nothing Happens Biscuit Publishing UK Website 2007
 
The Raw Prawn Slippery When Wet Anthology 2007
 
The Shadow That Dogs Her Slippery When Wet Anthology  2007
 
Naked Without A Hanky Slippery When Wet Anthology 2007
 
Collection of Short Stories
 
Once More With Feeling Ginninderra Press 2006
 
Poems
 
Full Moon Night “Yellow Moon”
Recorded by Paul Winn July 2004
2004
 
Living Stones “Yellow Moon” 2002