3:AM Magazine

• Calling Amanuenses Everywhere (Story).

ABC

• Creativity and fatherhood: Why is it so hard to be an artist and a parent in Australia? (essay).
• The ethics of how we defecate (essay).
• What my quest to acquire a walnut tree taught me about the challenge of living ethically (essay).

Antipodes (US)

• Issue 33:2: “Stump Psalm” (Poem).
• Issue 33:1: “We May Warm Ourselves” (fiction).

Australian Book Review

• Five poems in States of Poetry 2: Tasmania.

Australian Poetry Journal

• Issue 8.2: “Rocky Whelan’s Cave” (poem).
  

Award Winning Australian Writing

• 2015: “The Face of the Derwent” (short story).
  

Best Australian Science Writing

• 2018: “Speak for the Trees” (essay).

Best Summer Stories (Black Inc, 2018)

• “Unbury Me” (fiction).

The Big Issue

• Issue 605: “To Bee or Not to Bee” (Essay).
• Issue 593, 2019 Fiction Edition: “The Slide” (Fiction).

The Brussels Review

• “Four poems.“

The Canary Press

• Issue 4: “Smooth Green Skin” (prose poem).

The Canberra Times

• March 11 2023: “Tanina Bluff” (poem).
• June 19 2021: “There is Always More Than One Canopy” (poem).

The Centre for Stories

• “The Quietness of Giving Up Writing” (essay).
  

The Cimarron Review (US)

• Issue 221/22: “Find Me This Place” (short story).

Cordite Poetry Review

• “South”  (poem).
• “The Tall Man”  (poem).
• “My Dad and I Are Discussing His Olympic Career” (Flash fiction).
• “The Land as Breath” (essay).
• “Mt Frederick”  (poem).
• “Pale and Cold” (prose poem).
• “Another Story” (poem).
• “This Wealth of When”  (poem).

Dark Mountain (UK)

• Issue 20: “For The Perishable Body” (experimental nature prose).

Griffith Review

• “The Bridge” (fiction).
• “Outside, Mona Lisa” (essay).

The Guardian

• “The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating” (Opinion).
• “I’ve been climbing Tasmanian mountains for years – but I’m terrified of heights” (Opinion).
• “Speak for the Trees” (essay extract).

Island

• Online: “Grass, Willow, Skin” (experimental nature writing).
• Online: “Snakes in the Valley, In Their Hair” (experimental nature writing).
• Issue 169: “The Only Fish: Flathead Decline in Tasmania” (essay).
• Issue 158: “Beast Evolving” (experimental nature prose).
• Issue 156: “Hidden in the Bush: In Search of Australian Nature Writing” (essay).
• Issue 153: “The Loyalist” (poem).
• Issue 153: “Unbury Me” (fiction).
• Issue 150: “Sedgeland Nation” (poem).
• Issue 147: “Landscape within Landscapes” (fiction).
• Issue 138: “An Anti-Glacier Book” (fiction).
• Issue 133: “The Battlements of Raoul” (essay).
• Issue 130: “The Angels” (fiction).

Kill Your Darlings

• Issue 17: “The Lake” (fiction).

The Kenyon Review

• Vol. XLVII, No. 3: “Then There Will Be More Breathing” (fiction).

The Lifted Brow

• Issue 34: “Jackpot” (flash fiction).
• Issue 18: “A Field Guide to the Huts of Mt. Wellington: 1913″ (fiction).

Lithub (US)

• “Beast Evolving” (fiction).

Mascara Literary Review

• Issue 16: “Winding the Land” (fiction).

Meanjin

• “Where’s The Remote?” (essay).
• “Whispering Road” (essay).
• “Tempting the Pest” (experimental nature prose).
• “An Irrelevant State” (essay).
• “Atlantis Minor” (experimental nature prose).
• “What I’m Reading” (essay).
• “Flathead Out One Day” (fiction).
• “Cladding Sentiment” (poem).
• “Speak for the Trees” (essay).
• “Days of Yielding” (fiction).

New Australian Fiction

• 2021: “Flash and Glow” (fiction).

On This Ground: The Best Australian Nature Writing

• 2024: “Outside, Mona Lisa” (essay).

Overland

• “The Oysters Roar” (poem)
• “The Economist” (fiction).
• “On the Defunding of Island Magazine” (essay).
• “The Myth of the Vogel” (essay).
• “We Are All Superman”  (fiction).
• “You Can be a Successful Writer, But Only if You Live in Melbourne or Sydney” (essay).
• “All Hollows” (fiction).
• “It’s All Happening Here” (fiction – also produced for Radio National).
• “Hymns” (poem).
• “What Fear Was” (fiction).

Phase Change (Tenth Planet Press, 2022)

• “The Switch” (fiction).

Plumwood Mountain

• Issue 7.1: “Orchidacean Footholds” (poetry).

Poetry Ireland Review

• “Driftbones” (poetry).

Review of Australian Fiction

• “The Eradication Program” (fiction).
• “Algae” (fiction).

The Saturday Paper

• “We Don’t Look Like Dorks” (short story).
• “The Sun Falls Foul” (short story).
• “The President Loves Caviar” (short story).
• “Platinum Reserve” (short story).
• “One Deer Running” (short story).
• “The Wind is Trying to Kill Us” (experimental nature writing).
• “For the Perishable Body” (experimental nature writing).

Southerly

• Issue: 77.2: “Mt Styx” (poem).
• Issue 76.1: “Intertextual Reservations” (poem).
• “Pads”  (Poem: Long Paddock).
• Issue 74.1: “Joseph Hooker’s Hands” (poem).

Westerly

• Issue 60.1: “Timing the River” (fiction).

Contact me:

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