I need to share some recent happiness. You'll be getting to see more of me in print in the coming months! Today I received the news that I have been shortlisted for the Page Seventeen short story competition, which means my story 'Mentioning Ben' will be published in Issue 6 (November). This also coincided with … Continue reading Literary Smiles
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Remix My Lit
Songs and sounds can be grabbed and mixed; films can be spliced, homaged or spoofed; so what about literature? A new initiative lets you mix-up some fantastic short fiction by prominent writers - pieces that are licenced under the Creative Commons initiative. Your mixes might also be selected for an anthology to be produced post-project, … Continue reading Remix My Lit
Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster
This review was first published in Idiom 23, 2007. In the opening pages of Feather Man (Aus, US), amongst the stench of wet chook feathers and shit, something is taken from the young female character. ‘Lionel robbed me of naturalness’ she later reflects. It is a beginning and it is an end. ‘Sookie’ (as her … Continue reading Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster
Birthday – Short Story – extract
My short story Birthday has appeared in Lip magazine #14 available from their website. Lip is a young feminist magazine, for real girls. My story is about a girl on her eighteenth birthday. She grieves for the loss of her childhood in five stages. Here is an extract: Birthday stage one Alice awoke expecting excitement … Continue reading Birthday – Short Story – extract
The Artist
Published in Slow Trains Literary Journal, November 2007. 1 Tattoos like stamped patterns on folded silk. She’d gotten them in Paris when she was eighteen, when a beggar was her friend, the concrete her pillow, and a hard knock her income. Read more...
Dead Women
My short story Dead Women has been published in the latest Hecate (Vol. 33, No. 1). Here is an extract: Lily woke up one morning to find Virginia Woolf sitting on the end of her bed. She instantly recognised the thin, protuberant cheekbones and phosphorescent eyes. She liked the way the dark morbid floral pattern … Continue reading Dead Women
Piece of You – Microfiction
My microfiction piece Piece of You has been published in the 2nd OneFifty ezine 'Nergels'. Download 'Nergels' from OneFifty's website - click on STORIES once you're there.
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