Words – Dark Cave Press

Words

Writing is part of the practice. Poems, stories, plays, critical work written by hand in the cave.

Recent News

Finalist 2025 Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction for ‘Folklore Beginnings for Horror Writers’ (Australasian Shadows)
Bram Stoker Award committee, Long Non-Fiction Jury, 2026
‘Meat-waves’ published in Saturday Mourning Television, ed. Ben Walker (Sliced Up Press, 2026)
‘Midnight Broth’ published in Let the Right One Simmer, Volume 1 (Campfire Publishing, 2026)
Winner 2024 Robert N. Stephenson Award for Everyday Red
Shortlisted 2024 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award for Everybody’s Uncle (The Comstock Review)
Page to Pulse: A Guide to Mass Hysteria for Writers — now out
Spirit Level: Strange Tools & Story, artist book collaboration with Kaaron Warren & Ellen Datlow. Dark Cave Press

Selected Works

Books & Collections

2025Page to Pulse: A Guide to Mass Hysteria for Writers. Dark Cave Press
2025Spirit Level: Strange Tools & Story, with Kaaron Warren & Ellen Datlow. Dark Cave Press
2024 — ‘Distaff/Rock’ in Oystercatcher: 101 Poems, ed. Steve Meyrick. 5 Islands Press
2022Girl+dog investigate: The Wound. A True Field Report. Dark Cave Press
2019Everyday Words: Ten Australian Poets, with Jen Webb. Puncher & Wattman
2018Creativity in Context: How to Make a Poet, with Jen Webb. Recent Work Press
2017Isolator. Recent Work Press
2015Swipe, with Caren Florance. Ampersand Duck

Poetry

2026 — ‘Meat-waves’, Saturday Mourning Television, ed. Ben Walker. Sliced Up Press
2025 — ‘Never said’, Never Say Die Anthology. CSFG Press
2025 — ‘Everyday Red’, Midnight Echo 20. AHWA
2024 — ‘Everybody’s Uncle’, The Comstock Review 38.2
2020 — ‘The Dress of my Drowning’, Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry. Melbourne University Press
2019 — ‘Spine’, Otoliths
2017 — ‘Bow & Stern’, Westerly
2008 — ‘Autumn in Canberra’, Poetry in ACTION. ACT Government

Stories

2026 — ‘Midnight Broth’, Let the Right One Simmer, Volume 1. Campfire Publishing
2025 — ‘Brink’, The Call Anthology. KSP Writers Centre
2024 — ‘Buy Sell Swap’, Chroma. South Coast Writers Centre
2014 — ‘individual tax return instructions’, The Grapple Annual. Grapple Publishing
2003 — ‘Special Foldings’, HQ Magazine. ACP

Stage & Audio

2023Enjoy The Show, dir. Lexi Sekuless. Mill Theatre, Canberra
2023More Light, More Light. Canberra Theatre Centre
2023Don’t Talk, prod. Bart Meehan. ArtSound FM
2022Sweet Spot, dir. Sophie Bayliss. Blackbox Theatre, Illawarra
2009The Teller. Cleveland Street Theatre, Redfern

Critical Work

2025 — ‘Folklore Beginnings for Horror Writers’, Midnight Echo 20. AHWA
2023 — ‘The Knowing of Artists’ Books’, in JAB Anthology, ed. Drucker & Freeman. University of Iowa Press
2018 — ‘Given in the Flesh: A phenomenology of handedness through Erika Mordek’s bookwork’, Axon 8.1
2017 — ‘Defiant formlessness: prose poem as process’, with Jen Webb. TEXT 46
2016 — ‘A Visual Tone Poem Exploring the Conservatism of Contemporary Data Visualisation in Poetry’, Axon Capsule 1
2014 — ‘Write this down’, in Creative Manoeuvres. Cambridge Scholars

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