STORIES

[Image description: Passage of text from ‘Once, I Was Lily’, beginning with the date ‘12:40am, Monday 23rd November 2009’ and the paragraph ‘I think I need to write what happened. Lily, you need to remember.'‘]

[Image description: Passage of text from ‘Once, I Was Lily’, beginning with the date ‘12:40am, Monday 23rd November 2009’ and the paragraph ‘I think I need to write what happened. Lily, you need to remember.'‘]

  • ‘Once, I Was Lily’ (2021) is a short story about a young girl battling for control of her own mind. It was published by Deakin University as part of The Other Side digital anthology, B3-4 Publishing. Please note that this story deals with confronting themes, including mental illness, self-harm, and sexual assault.

[Image description: The cover of To The Island 2019 – Stories From The Clarence Valley is white with a border of blue curved shapes with lines and dots around them, resembling islands or rock pools.]

[Image description: The cover of To The Island 2019 – Stories From The Clarence Valley is white with a border of blue curved shapes with lines and dots around them, resembling islands or rock pools.]

  • ‘Island Girl, Unwritten’ (2019) is a queer Australian YA short story about family, grief, losing home, and finding it again. It was one of the top 10 finalists in a short story competition for emerging writers from the Clarence Valley, northern NSW on the lands of the Yaegl, Gambaynggirr, and Bundjalung people. The 2019 theme was ‘To the island’ and the shortlisted entries were published in an anthology of the same name.