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I write, edit and publish sociological fiction.

I make So Fi Zine, which publishes flash fiction and poetry (as well as visual art) by contributors from around the world. I launched this zine in 2017 and publish editions twice per year (usually).

I run Frances Street Press, a publisher and distro for various zines including short story collections.

I am Fiction Editor of The Sociological Review magazine, a short story series for fiction that is sociology in style, scope and sensibility. Submissions are open on a rolling basis.

I am author of the novel Into the Sea. The story follows a year in the life of Taylah Brown:

Taylah Brown is happy. She is. She has graduated university and she is in love and Sydney is a wonderful city to be in love in – all sunshine and blue water everywhere. It’s 2014 and the future is paved out in front her, a heat shimmer of possibility. Haircuts. Concerts. Holidays. Birthdays. Getting engaged, being engaged, going to brunch to show off the ring. More birthdays, a promotion, finding the right white dress. Getting married, going on her honeymoon, buying a house, having a child, getting a dog, going to the gym, moving house, camping at beach, weekends spent baking in the kitchen. New haircuts, new jobs, more birthdays, more birthdays… Choice-laden, picturesque, this is the good life. Isn’t it?

Grounded in ethnographic research and published in Brill’s award-winning Social Fictions Series, Into the Sea is an experiment in sociological imagination. The story follows a group of young adults through twelve months of the mundane and extraordinary. By closely inspecting the tensions in everyday scenes – family lunches on the verandah, mornings at work, dinners parties with friends, shopping trips to IKEA – the novel questions what it means to live “the Australian way of life”.

I am currently writing my second novel. Very slowly.