Publications and prizes

PUBLICATIONS:
* The Silver Stopper in Harlem River Blues, published by Fish Publishing, Ireland, July 2008.
* The Slave of Bracelets in the Sunday Star Times, NZ, 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, published by Spinifex, Australia, 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 hot blue Chrysler.

PRIZES:
* Long-listed for The Silver Stopper, Fish international Short Story competition, Fish Publishing (Ireland) 2008.
* Runner-up prize for The Silver Stopper, Short Histories III, international historical fiction competition, Fish Publishing (Ireland) 2007.
* Third prize winner for The Slave of Bracelets, Sunday-Star Times, national short story competition (New Zealand) 2006.
* Short-listed for The Slave of Bracelets, Short Histories II, international historical fiction competition, Fish Publishing (Ireland) 2006.
* First prize for prose for The Taste of Marrah, Waterstones / Liverpool John Moore’s University national Violet fiction competition (UK) 1996.

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.

PRIZE-WINNING SHORT STORIES ARE 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 finished and published, you’ll be able to read all the delicious details that are not in the short story versions!