Novels/Novellas
Gutterbreed (Eclectic Trio) – published June 21, 2020
– Nominated for Best Horror Novel in the Aurealis Awards 2020
– Nominated for Best Horror Novel in the Australian Shadows Awards 2020
809 Jacob Street (First edition published by Black Beacon Books, October 2013; Second edition published by Eclectic Trio, February 2016)
– Winner of the Best Novel category of the Australian Shadows Award (2013)
– Top 10 Finalist in JournalStone’s unpublished novel competition (2012)
– Notable Book in the Page-Turner category for Shelf Unbound’s 2013 writing competition
Collections
Behind the Midnight Blinds (First edition published by Things in the Well, October 2020; Second edition published by Eclectic Trio, Jan 1, 2023)
– Nominated for Best Collection in the Australian Shadows Awards 2020
Short Stories
What Does It Matter when You’re Already Dead? – Dark Splinters (October 2021)
Out in the Dark with the Other Monsters – Behind the Midnight Blinds: with Other Devilish Things (October 2020)
Roadside Flies – Outback Horrors Down Under; An Anthology of Antipodean Terrors (September 2020)
Unmade Pumpkins – Midnight Echo Issue 13 (December 2018)
Masquerades – Cthulhu – Land of the Long White Cloud (November 2018)
Salvation is Closed – Between the Tracks – Tales from the Ghost Train (April 2017)
Fixing a Broken Shadow – Between the Lines, edited by Michael Knost (October 2016)
When We Were the Spiders (March 2016) – part of The Refuge Collection
- Also published in The Refugee Collection… Hell to Others! Volumes 4-6
- Nominated for a Tin Duck Award 2017 for Best Short Story
Upon the Dead Oceans – In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep (AHWA, October 2015)
Seeing Within – Forgotten Places (The Horror Society, March 2015)
The Frequency of Death – Fear the Reaper (Crystal Lake Publishing, October 2013)
Addiction – Tales from the Mist (October 2012)
A Monstrous Touch – Dangers Untold (Alliteration Ink, October 2012)
- Shortlisted for Best Short Fiction – Australian Shadows Award 2012
Desert Blood – Dead Red Heart (Ticonderoga Publications, April 2011)
Behind the Midnight Blinds – HorrorWorld (April 2011)
- Honorable Mention in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 4
Breaking Point – Daily Bites of Flesh Anthology (November 2010)
Joey Blue and the Gutterbreed – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #48 (October 2010)
Clip Notes – Blade Red Dark Pages volume 1 (May 2010)
Fireflies of the Bushfire – Masters of Horror Anthology (March 2010)
Black Peter – Festive Fear (December 2009)
- Honorable Mention in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 2
- Shortlisted for Best Short Story – Ditmar Awards 2010
After Sunset – Midnight Echo issue 1 (October 2008)
Revelations – The Writing Show‘s Haloween Special 2008 (October)
Behind Him – Black Box (2008)
Decky’s Plight – Black Ink Horror issue 3 (February 2008)
The Wildflowers – Fantastic Wonder Stories (April 2007)
- Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, 21st edition
- Honourable Mention in the Australian Shadows Award 2007
- Reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy Horror 2008
The Shoe – The Pen Is Mightier Than The Pipette: An Anthology of CSIRO Scientists’ Creative Writing (August 2007)
- Competition shortlist
Gone to Seed – Demon Minds (March 2007)
Knightsbrea – Spinetinglers (January 2007)
- Finalist in December 06 competition
Dirty Washing – Horror Day Anthology (October 2006)
Finders, Keepers… – FlashSpec Volume 1 (July 2006)
Smoke – AntipodeanSF issue 96 (May-June 2006)
Poker-faced – Ripples Issue 3 (January 2006)
Behind You – ShadowBox e-anthology (November 2005)
Poetry
Not Enough – HWA Poetry Showcase, volume 6 (ed. Stephanie M. Wytovich, 2019)
An Endless Barrage – Infectious Hope (ed. Silvia Canton Rondoni, 2021)
As Editor
- Blurring the Line (Cohesion Press, 2015)
- WINNER – Australian Shadows Award 2015 – Best Edited Publication
- Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears (Brimstone Press, 2010) – co-editor with Angela Challis
- WINNER – Australian Shadows Award 2011 – Best Edited Publication
- NOMINATED – Bram Stoker Award 2011 – Superior Achievement in an Anthology
- NOMINATED – Aurealis Awards 2011 – Best Anthology
- NOMINATED – Ditmar Awards 2011 – Best Anthology
- WINNER – Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story 2011 for “The Fear” by Richard Harland
- NOMINATED – Bram Stoker Award 2011 – Superior Achievement in Long Fiction for “Monsters Among Us” by Kirstyn McDermott
- Midnight Echo Issue 8 (Midnight Echo, November 2012) – co-editor with Amanda J Spedding and Mark Farrugia
Non-Fiction
- AHWA: Raising Hell (regular column in Black Magazine, 2008)
- Digging Beneath ‘Phosphor; an Ischian mystery’ by J Filmore Sherry (Studies in Australian Weird Fiction 3 , 2009)
- Colonial Ghosts and Modern Terrors: An Overview of Australian Horror Fiction (Reading Down Under; Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009)
- Muncaster’s Ghosts – the Science and the Fiction (Borderlands Issue 9, 2007)
Awards and Nominations
- Aurealis Awards 2020 – Best Horror Novel (Gutterbreed) – Nominated
- Australian Shadows Award 2015 – Best Edited Publication (Blurring the Line) – WON
- Australian Shadows Award 2013 – Best Novel (809 Jacob Street) – WON
- Notable Book in the Page-Turner category for Shelf Unbound’s 2013 writing competition (809 Jacob Street)
- JournalStone’s unpublished novel competition 2012 (809 Jacob Street) – Top 10 Finalist
- Australian Shadows Award 2012 – Best Short Fiction (‘A Monstrous Touch’) – Finalist
- Australian Shadows Award 2011 – Best Edited Publication (Macabre; A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears) – WON
- Bram Stoker Award 2011 – Superior Achievement in an Anthology (Macabre; A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears) – Nominated
- Aurealis Awards 2011 – Best Anthology (Macabre; A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears) – Nominated
- Ditmar Awards 2011 – Best Anthology (Macabre; A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears) – Nominated
- Ditmar Awards 2010 – Best Short Story (‘Black Peter’) – Nominated
- Ditmar Awards 2009 – Professional Achievement (for promoting horror through the Australian Horror Writers Association) – Nominated
- Ditmar Awards 2008 – Fan Achievement (for work as President of the Australian Horror Writers Association) – Nominated
- Ditmar Awards 2007 – Fan Achievement (for work establishing and promoting the Australian Horror Writers Association) – Nominated
- Spinetinglers December 2006 competition (‘Knightsbrea’) – Finalist