Flash Fiction, First Prizes, and Finding My Feet (part one)
My gut told me 2026 was going to be my year for short stories. Coming to short fiction from novel writing, I found the adjustment brutal—and spent years figuring it out largely alone. Then I won first prize in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival's flash fiction competition.
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Some background on ‘The Red Line’
In writing this first installment of The North Queensland Vampire Mysteries, I asked myself questions.
What would happen if….?
Manuscript short listed
A North Queensland vampire story set in the late 90s just made the Queensland Writers Centre's Publishable program shortlist. That story is Sarina — and it's one step closer to publication.
Manuscript longlisted
M. N. Cox's urban fantasy manuscript Sarina — vampires, North Queensland, stakes very much required — has been longlisted for the Queensland Writers Centre's Publishable program.