“Waking Up” in Contrast and Relief (Eds. Z. Giles and N. Talbot). Newcastle: Nimrod Publications, 1981, pp. 67-9.


“A Taste of the Cat” in Island Magazine, 72/73, Spring/Summer, 1997, pp. 42-53.


“Supreme Sacrifice” in T. Howard (Ed). In a dark wood wandering, RASTAR, 1999, pp. 75-96.


“Transubstantiation” in T. Howard (Ed). In a dark wood wandering, RASTAR, 1999, pp.97-116.


“Handover” in Dimsum 4, Summer 2000, pp. 75-86.


“The Chinese Doll” in Famous Reporter, No. 25, June 2002, p. 51.


“Cymru am Byth” in Island Magazine, 89, Autumn, 2002, pp. 75-6.


“A Relative Love” in The Wild East, June-July, 2003, pp. 6-9.


“Just One Sip More”, in Conversations, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 68-73.

“A Whited Sepulchre”, in The Other Side, Issue 6, August 2005. pp. 50-5.

“Wok au Vin”, in Megan Schaffner (Ed). Running Through the Stars : An Anthology of Poetry and Prose : Hobart : Fellowship of Australian Writers, 2005, pp. 68-74.

“The Green Capsule”, in Australian Reader , October, 2005

"Whited Sepulchres", in Diana McPartlin & Mio Debnam (Eds). Sweat and the City: Stories and poems from the Hong Kong workplace. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Writers' Circle, 2006. pp.109-121.

"Two birds, one stone", in Diana McPartlin (Ed). Hong Kong Whodunnits: One city, twelve murders. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Writers' Circle, 2007. pp.215-238.

"A Good Christian Girl", in Tammy Ho and Jeff Zroback (Eds). Love and Lust. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Writers Circle, 2008. pp. 33-40.

"Forgiveness" and "Those Teeth" in Pocket Books, N. Melbourne.

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“Waking Up” First prize, FAW Central Coast, Dec 1997


“ABC” First Prize, FAW Manly Peninsula Region, October 1998


“Wok au Vin” First Prize, FAW (Northern Tasmania) James McQueen Short Story Award 2001


“The Green Capsule” First Prize, FAW Manly Peninsula Region, October 2001


“Just One Sip More” First Prize, Red Dragon, January 2002.


“A Surprising Way of Acquiring Wisdom” First Prize, Midlands Literary Competition, April 2002


“A Taste of the Cat.” Runner up, R. Carson Gold Memorial Bursary. 1995


“Just One Sip” Highly Commended, Auswrite, Jan 1998; Very highly commended, Invererell, March 1998


“Supreme Sacrifice” Third Prize, RASTAR Tom Howard, June 1998


“Transubstantiation” Special Commendation, RASTAR Tom Howard, June 1998


“The Old Man’s Suit” Second Prize, Dandenong, November 1998; Commended, Mona Brand Central Coast FAW, April 1999; Finalist, Writespot November 2001
“Only My Chinese Teacher” Highly Commended, Southern Cross, Ballarat, June
2001


“Mr. Thorndyke’s Mistress” Highly Commended, FAW Manly Peninsula Region, October 2001


“False Alarm” Highly Commended, Tom Howard, RASTAR, 2001


“A Whited Sepulchre” Commended, Tom Howard Short Story Competition No. 12, 2004; Commended, Fish Award, 2004.

"Going for Gold" Australian Short Story Awards, 2005

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