creative writing | fiction
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.
Melinda Haynes
In search of celebration, I share some of my fiction here.
professional development | writerly things
- Grammar Therapy - 4-week grammar course for fiction
- Write What You Know - 4-week writing course with WritersHQ
- Flash Fiction Fan Club - 8-week flash fiction writing course
- Write Drunk, Edit Sober - Half-day self-editing workshop
awards | fellowships
- Katharine Susannah Prichard Fellowship Recipient 2021
- Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Competition 2020, Shortlisted
- Bath Flash Fiction Summer 2020, Longlisted
- National Flash Fiction Day Award 2019, Highly Commended
- Writers HQ Flash Fiction Prize 2019, Third Place
- Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition 2019, Longlisted
- Reflex Press Flash Fiction Prize 2017, 2018, 2019, Longlisted
interviews
- Contributor Interview, The Suburban Review
2021
The Lover Asks Questions They Cannot Answer
Flash Fiction
Longlisted in the Reflex Press Spring Competition
Published: TBC
Freezing to Death
Flash Fiction
Published: Online, Sad Girls Club (May 2021)
Untitled Senryu
Haiku
Published: Print, F*EMS Zine (April 2021)
A Senryu Semi Circle
Haiku
Published: Print, F*EMS Zine (April 2021)
Just a Moth
Haiku
Published: The Best Haiku Anthology 2021, Haiku Crush
A Bird Heart for Forgiveness
Flash Fiction
Published: Online, Entropy Magazine
Phantom Limbs
Micro Fiction
Published: Print, Issue 43 Blink Ink Magazine
My Husband Speaks a Language I Do Not Know
Flash Fiction
Published: Online, Friday Flash Fiction
2020
Tuesday Night at a Bar in Hoxton With a Cartoon Dog
Flash Fiction
Published: Print, Issue 18 F*EMS Zine (Dec. 2020)
What No Longer Is
Flash Fiction
Shortlisted for the Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Competition (Unpublished)
दया, Daya
Micro Fiction
Published: Print, Issue 42 Blink Ink Magazine
Three Haiku on Loss
Haiku
Published: Online, Blue Bottle Journal
Probably Nothing
Flash Fiction
Long-listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Award Summer 2020
Published: Print, 'Restore to Factory Settings' Anthology
Returning
Short Story
Published: Print, Issue 17 of F*EMS Zine
Anomic Aphasia
Flash Fiction
Published: Online, as part of National Flash Fiction Day 2020 Flash Flood
Furusato 故郷
Creative Non-Fiction
Published: Online with Sawtooth ARI, as part of the digital community art project 'The Arrowhead Expanding Outwards'
Rust & Bone
Flash Fiction
Published: Print, Issue 2.1 of Human/Kind Journal
The Disconcerting Discovery of Shoes on a Beach
Flash Fiction
Long-listed for the Reflex Press Winter 2019 Competition
Published: Online & Print, 'A Girls' Guide to Fly Fishing' Anthology
2019
Love is the Greatest of Dreams, Yet the Worst of Nightmares
&
Pop
Flash Fictions
Published: Print, 'Where Are We Now?' Geelong Writers Annual Anthology
Today I Dropped a Punnet of Blueberries
Flash Fiction
Published: Online, Every Day Fiction
Kiss it Better
Flash Fiction
Longlisted in Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition
(Unpublished)
Last Night I Saved a Moth From Drowning
Flash Fiction
Published: Print, Fall 7.3 issue of *82 Review
Rattas, Mammalia
Creative Non-Fiction
Published: Online, Issue 14 of The Suburban Review
Anomic Aphasia
Flash Fiction
Awarded Third Place in the Writers HQ Flash Fiction Prize
Published: Online
Last Night I Saved a Moth from Drowning
Micro Fiction
Highly Commended in the National Flash Fiction Day Prize
Published: Online & Print, 'And We Pass Through' Anthology
Every Second Thursday
Flash Fiction
Long-listed for the Reflex Press Winter 2018 prize
Published: Online & Print, 'The Real Jazz Baby' Anthology
2018/17