Bibliography

BOOKS

Songs for Dark Seasons (Ticonderoga Publications, 2020) — Collection

Winner, Best Novella, Australian Shadows Awards 2021
Finalist, Best Collection, Aurealis Awards 2021
Finalist, Best Novella, Aurealis Awards 2021

Includes the stories:

Soft Sister Sixty-Six
The Coronation Bout (first published in Electric Velocipede, December 2013)
A Grand Old Life
Four Facts About the Ursines
Something Close to Grace (first published in Murder Ballads, 2017)
The Canary (first published in The Dark, Issue 10, November 2015)
Little Digs (first published in The Dark, Issue 20, January 2017)
Surfacing (first published in Postscripts 36/37: The Dragons of the Night, 2016)
- Reprinted in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017, ed. Paula Guran
Snowglobes (first published in Chilling Tales 2: In Words, Alas, Drown I, 2013)
- Honourable Mention, Imaginarium 3: Best Canadian Speculative Writing 2013
Blues Eater
Sugared Heat (first published in 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories, 2015)
The Wail in Them Woods
By Touch and By Glance (novella)

Lament for the Afterlife (ChiZine Publications, 2015) — Novel

Winner, Best Novel, Australian SF (Ditmar) Awards 2016

The Female Factory, co-authored with Angela Slatter (Twelfth Planet Press, 2014) — Collection

Winner, Best Collection, 2014 Aurealis Awards
Finalist, Norma K. Hemming Award 2015

Includes the stories:

Vox
- Reprinted in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014, ed. Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene
All the Other Revivals
Baggage
The Female Factory
- Finalist, Best Novella, Ditmar Awards 2014
- Reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2015, ed. Paula Guran

Bluegrass Symphony (Ticonderoga Publications, 2011) — Collection

Finalist, Best Collection, World Fantasy Awards 2012
Winner, ‘Best Collection’, 2011 Aurealis Awards
Finalist, Norma K. Hemming Award 2012
Honourable Mention, ‘Best Collection’, 2011 Australian Shadows Awards

Includes the stories:

Carousel
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol 4, ed. Datlow
Down the Hollow
- Audio ‘reprint’: Tales to Terrify podcast
Them Little Shinin’ Things
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol 4, ed. Datlow
Fur and Feathers
- Reprinted in Imaginarium 2012: Best Canadian Speculative Fiction, ed. Sandra Kasturi & Halli Villegas (CZP & Tightrope Books)
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol 4, ed. Datlow
From the Teeth of Strange Children
- Reprinted in Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women, ed. Paula Guran, 2015
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol 4, ed. Datlow;
- Honourable Mention, ‘Best Novella’, 2011 Australian Shadows Awards
The Wager and the Hourglass
The Short Go: A Future in Eight Seconds
- Winner, ‘Best Horror Story’, 2011 Aurealis Awards
- Honourable Mention, Imaginarium 2012: Best Canadian Speculative Fiction, ed. Kasturi & Villegas
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5, ed. Ellen Datlow
- Reprinted in Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Issue 55
- Audio ‘reprint’: Tales to Terrify podcast
- Reprinted in Tales to Terrify: Volume I, 2012
To Snuff a Flame
- Honourable Mention, Imaginarium 2012: Best Canadian Speculative Fiction, ed. Kasturi & Villegas
Depot to Depot
Commonplace Sacrifices (first published in On Spec2009/2010)
- Recommended Reading List, Tangent Online 2010
- Recommended Reading List, Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010
Wires Uncrossed
Forever, Miss Tapekwa County
- Reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011, ed. Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene
- Reprinted in Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep, ed. Paula Guran (2015)

Midnight and Moonshine, co-authored with Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga Publications, 2012) — Collection

Finalist, Best Collection, Aurealis Awards 2012
Finalist, Best Collected Work, Ditmar Awards 2012
Recommended Reading List, Locus Magazine 2012

Includes the stories:

Seeds
Burning Seaweed for Salt
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5 (ed. Ellen Datlow)
The Morning is Wiser than the Evening
The Third Who Went With Us
To that Man, My Bitter Counsel
Kveldúlfr
The Red Wedding
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5 (ed. Ellen Datlow)
Midnight
Of the Demon and the Drum
Warp and Weft
Bella Beaufort Goes to War
- Reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 (ed. Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, 2013)
- Reprinted in Imaginarium 2013: Best Canadian Speculative Fiction (ed. Sandra Kasturi and Samantha Beiko, 2013)
Prohibition Blues (first published in Damnation & Dames, ed. Liz Grzyb and Amanda Pillar)
Seven Sleepers

SHORT STORIES

Magazines & Journals

‘Deep in the Drift, Spinning’, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 312, September 2020
‘Little Digs’, The Dark, Issue 20, January 2017
‘The Canary’, The Dark, Issue 10, November 2015
‘A Shot of Salt Water’, The Dark, Issue 8, May 2015
- Reprinted in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2016, ed. Paula Guran
- Locus Recommended Reading List 2016
- Finalist, ‘Best Fantasy Short Story’ Aurealis Awards 2015
- Audio version, Podcastle, Issue 441, November 2016
‘Heirloom Pieces’, Apex Magazine, Issue 69, February 2015
- Finalist, ‘Best Horror Short Story’, Aurealis Awards 2015
‘The Beat that Billie Bore’, Review of Australian Fiction, Vol.11, Issue 1 2014
- Reprinted in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction (ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart, 2015)
‘The Coronation Bout’, Electric Velocipede, December 2013
‘Another Mouth’, The Dark, Issue 1, October 2013
- Translated into Japanese, Night Land Quarterly, Vol. 17 (June 2019)
‘Sweet Subtleties’, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 75, December 2012
- Reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 (ed. Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, 2013)
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5 (ed. Ellen Datlow)
- Reprinted in Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror (ed. Ellen Datlow, 2021)
‘Gutted’, Shimmer, Issue 13, April 2011
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol 4 (ed. Ellen Datlow, 2012)
‘Unlocking the God’, Electric Velocipede, November 2010
‘Sisters Under the Skin’, Weird Tales, ‘Uncanny Issue’ 356, Summer 2010
‘Their Own Executioners’, ChiZine, July-September 2010
‘Tiny Drops’, Midnight Echo, Issue4, 2010.
- Honourable Mention, Year’s Best Horror 2010 (ed. Ellen Datlow, 2011)
- Recommended Reading List, Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010
- Reprinted in ChiZine, May 2011
‘The Good Window’, Fantasy Magazine, September 2009
‘On the Lot and In the Air’, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 34, July 2009.
- Appeared on Locus Magazine‘s Recommended Reading List for 2009
‘Commonplace Sacrifices’, On Spec, vol. 21, no.4, Winter 2009.
- Recommended Reading List, Tangent Online 2010
- Recommended Reading List, Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010

Anthologies & Chapbooks

‘If, Then’, Beyond the Veil, ed. Mark Morris (Flame Tree Press), 2021
‘Outside, A Drifter’, Looming Low, ed. Justin Steele and Sam Cowan (Dim Shores) 2017
- Finalist, ‘Best Horror Short Story’, Aurealis Awards 2017
- Finalist, Best Short Fiction, Australian Shadows Awards 2018
‘Something Close to Grace’, Murder Ballads, ed. Mark Beech (Egaeus Press) 2017
‘A Right Pretty Mate’, Dreaming in the Dark, ed. Jack Dann (PS Publishing, UK) 2016
- Finalist, ‘Best YA Short Story’, Aurealis Awards 2016
‘Surfacing’, Postscripts 36/37: The Dragons of the Night, ed. Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (PS Publishing, UK) 2016
- Reprinted in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017, ed. Paula Guran
‘In Syllables of Elder Seas’, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, ed. Paula Guran (Little, Brown) 2016
- Reprinted in The Dark, Issue 23, April 2017
‘Smoke Billows, Soot Falls’ (Chapbook), ed. Simon Marshall-Jones (Spectral Press, 2015)
‘Sugared Heat’, 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories, ed. Mark Morris (Spectral Press) 2015
‘Consorting with Filth’, Blurring the Line, ed. Marty Young (Cohesion Press) 2015
- Finalist, ‘Best Horror Short Story’, Aurealis Awards 2015
- Reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015, ed. Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene
- Reprinted in Terrifying Ghosts: Short Stories (Flame Tree Press), 2021
‘Endpapers’, Postscripts 34/35: Beyond, ed. Nick Gevers (PS Publishing, UK) 2015
‘For So Great a Misdeed’, Cranky Ladies of History, ed. Tehani Wessely and Tansy Rayner Roberts (Fablecroft) 2015
‘Rapacis X. Loco Signa’, Bestiary, ed. Ann VanderMeer, 2015
‘A Girl of Feather and Music’, Postscripts, ed. Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (PS Publishing, UK) 2014
‘Snowglobes’, Chilling Tales 2: In Words, Alas, Drown I, ed. Michael Kelly (EDGE Publishing) 2013
- Honourable Mention, Imaginarium 3: Best Canadian Speculative Writing 2013 (ed. Sandra Kasturi and Helen Marshall, CZP)
‘Morning Passages’, Shadows Edge, ed. Simon Strantzas (Grey Friar Press) 2013
‘By Blood and Incantation’, co-written with Angela Slatter, One Small Step: An Anthology of Discoveries, ed. Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Press) 2013
- Honourable Mention, Imaginarium 3: Best Canadian Speculative Writing 2013 (ed. Sandra Kasturi and Helen Marshall, CZP)
‘Prohibition Blues’, Damnation & Dames, ed. Liz Grzyb and Amanda Pillar (Ticonderoga) 2012
‘White and Red in the Black’, Dead Red Heart, ed. Russell B. Farr (Ticonderoga) 2011
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol 4 (ed. Ellen Datlow, 2012)
‘Singing Breath into the Dead’, Music for Another World, ed. Mark Harding (Mutation Press), 2010
- Recommended Reading List, Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010
‘Soil From My Fingers’, Tesseracts 14, ed. Brett Alexander Savory & John Robert Colombo (ChiZine Press), 2010
- Reprinted in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2010, ed. Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (Ticonderoga Publications, 2011)
‘Weightless’, Sprawl, ed. Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press), 2010
‘The Curious Case of Physically-Manifested Bedsheet Mania & Other Tales’, co-written with Angela Slatter, Steampunk Reloaded , ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon Press), 2010
‘The February Dragon’, co-written with Angela Slatter, Scary Kisses, ed. Liz Grzyb (Ticonderoga Publications), 2010.
- Winner, Best Fantasy Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2010
- Honourable Mention, 2010 Year’s Best Horror (ed. Ellen Datlow, 2011)
- Finalist, Best Short Story, Ditmar Awards 2010
- Reprinted in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2010, ed. Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (Ticonderoga Publications), 2011
‘The Evangelist’s Tale’, Canterbury 2100, ed. Dirk Flinthart (Agog! Press), 2008

Flash

‘Twice Full’, This Is Horror, February 2012
‘Feast’, AntipodeanSF, Issue 136, October 2009

AWARDS

Winner, Best Novella, Australian Shadows Awards 2021
Finalist, Best Novella, Aurealis Awards 2021
Finalist, Best Collection, Aurealis Awards 2021
Finalist, Best Short Fiction, Australian Shadows Awards 2018
Finalist, Best Horror Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2017
Finalist, Best Young Adult Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2016
Winner, Best Novel, Ditmar Awards 2016
Finalist (twice), Best Horror Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2015
Finalist, Best Fantasy Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2015
Winner, Best Collection, Aurealis Awards 2014
Finalist, Norma K. Hemming Award 2015
Finalist, Best Novella, Ditmar Awards 2014
Finalist, Best Collection, Aurealis Awards 2012
Finalist, Best Collected Work, Ditmar Awards 2012
Finalist, Best Collection, World Fantasy Awards 2012
Winner, Best Collection, Aurealis Awards 2011
Winner, Best Horror Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2011
Honourable Mention, ‘Best Collection’, 2011 Australian Shadows Awards
Finalist, Norma K. Hemming Award 2012
Finalist, Best Collection and Best Novella, 2011 Australian Shadows Award
Winner (with Angela Slatter), Best Fantasy Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2010
Finalist, Best New Talent, Ditmar Awards 2010
Finalist, Best Achievement, Ditmar Awards 2010 (Cover design for The Girl With No Hands by Angela Slatter)