My short story “Today on Dr Phil” has scored a narrow victory to win one of the semi-finals in Meanjin’s Tournament of Books! The judge was Melinda Harvey. Look Who’s Morphing has been shortlisted for awards and come close to winning, but never actually won. Can this piece from the book go one better? The piece means a lot to me. I...
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My piece “Today on Dr Phil” has narrowly won a semi-final in Meanjin’s Tournament of Books! I’ve enjoyed the more public nature of this competition – it’s more fun than waiting on the secret discussions of a judging panel. And it’s especially fun when your judge is First Dog on the...
Read MoreLook Who’s Morphing available at Amazon.com
When Look Who’s Morphing first came out, I had people asking me if they could buy it from Amazon.com. Turns out that now you can! It’s available from selected sellers at Amazon.com and also as a Kindle...
Read MoreTom Cho vs Katherine Susannah Prichard
Following on from my blog post yesterday, Match One in Meanjin’s Tournament of Books 2012 saw my piece “Today on Dr Phil” pitted against Katherine Susannah Prichard’s “Happiness” (a story that I’ve not read – I thought that I had studied one of her novels in uni but I now realise that I haven’t actually...
Read MorePiece included in Meanjin Tournament of Books 2012
I’m chuffed that my piece “Today on Dr Phil” – from my first book Look Who’s Morphing – has been included in the Meanjin Tournament of Books 2012. As described on the tournament’s web page, the tournament works like this: From next Monday until the end of December we will be pitting Australian short stories against...
Read MoreReprint of Look Who’s Morphing
A very quick update: my first book Look Who’s Morphing has sold out its print run so it’s being reprinted. I’m so pleased that it is being reprinted. The book is being studied in various university courses and, more recently, its use in a course at University of Newcastle has finished the print run. Thanks to all those uni lecturers who...
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