Prizes
* Longlisted: Short Memoir Prize, Fish Publishing (Ireland), 2012.
* Honorable mention: Unbound Press Best Novel Award (UK), 2011.
* Finalist: Sunday Star Times Short Story Award (NZ), 2011.
* Finalist: Best Lesbian Erotica, Cleis Press (USA), 2011.
* Third prize winner: Claire Apps creative writing competition (UK), 2010.
* Long-listed: Fish international short story competition, Fish Publishing (Ireland) 2008.
* Runner-up prize: Short Histories III, international historical fiction competition, Fish Publishing 2007.
* Third prize winner: Sunday-Star Times, national short story competition (New Zealand) 2006.
* Short-listed: Short Histories II, international historical fiction competition, Fish Publishing (Ireland) 2006.
* First prize for prose: Waterstones / LJMU national fiction competition (UK) 1996.
Publications
* “The Castle” on Claire Apps’ website, http://writing-experiment.webs.com, 2010.
* “The Silver Stopper” in “Harlem River Blues”, Fish Publishing 2008.
* “The Slave of Bracelets” in the Sunday Star Times, 31 December 2006. The illustration for the story was a wonderful pair of legs wearing black stockings and gorgeous 1930s shoes.
* “The Taste of Marrah” in the anthology “Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love”, Spinifex 1997. Renée, Annamarie Jagose and Stella Duffy are also in this excellent anthology. The book cover is a stunning photograph of two ladies and a baby blue Chrysler.
Buy my published stories online
* Harlem River Blues is available at www.fishpublishing.com.
* Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love is available at www.spinifexpress.com.au.
Read my stories online
* Read “The Castle” at http://writing-experiment.webs.com/competitionnov2010results.htm
Prize-winning short stories from my novel, Nights In Paris
* “The Silver Stopper” and “The Slave of Bracelets” are short story adaptations of my novel in progress, “Nights in Paris”, about the French writers Anaïs Nin and Colette.
* When the novel is published, you’ll be able to read all the delicious details that are not in the short story versions!