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Work

Fiction

Novels

Painting with Sound

Auto-Fiction · Novel

Melbourne, 1986. A young synthesiser musician is trying to figure out who he is — through the music, through the scene, through the relationships that define and confine him. His band stands at the edge of a genuine breakthrough, but the path forward means disappointing everyone who thinks they know him. The industry wants a sound that isn't him. His activist girlfriend wants a presence he can't sustain. His family no longer recognise him. A novel about growing up, creative ambition, and the painful discovery that becoming yourself can mean outgrowing the people who loved who they thought you were.

First draft completed.

Reception

Folk Horror · Novel

Miles Chapman, a data analyst hollowed out by years of digital addiction, retreats to a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands to recover. The landscape delivers what he came for — silence, clean air, the slow repair of an overstimulated mind. Then he discovers a shortwave radio, and with it a numbers station broadcasting from an unknown location. The mountain has its own mythology, including Am Fear Liath Mòr, the Big Grey Man, whose presence Chapman cannot quite explain away. What began as recovery starts to feel like recruitment.

In development.

Short Stories

Moonah

Cosmic Horror

The Moonah woodlands of coastal Victoria harbour something older than the ancient, twisted trees that give them their name.

"Nature is the most powerful influencer in this dark, twisted story about the wisdom of the forest." — Kill Your Darlings

Black Celebration

Psychological Horror

A woman risks everything to feel alive again, seeking out an infected stranger for the intimacy her partner can no longer provide, knowing infection may be the price she pays.

On Submission.

Memoir & Nonfiction

Always Leaving

Memoir

What does it mean to spend thirty-six years leaving and returning? Hundreds of business trips across three decades — the airport lounges, the hotel rooms, the perpetual sensation of being between places. A literary memoir tracing what constant departure does to a person's sense of home, intimacy, and belonging.

In development.

The Queensland Experiment

Memoir

A family packs up and drives north from Melbourne to Queensland — two days on the road toward a place the children have never heard of. What begins as adventure becomes an experiment in displacement: new school, new climate, new rules, and the slow discovery that the life left behind isn't coming back.

Completed.

Screenwriting

Light Bringer

Feature Screenplay · 2009 · Co-written with Claire Forgie

Eighteenth-century England. A recently widowed woman is abducted by a forest hunter and imprisoned alongside an older captive from a neighbouring estate. The bond that forms between them becomes its own kind of trap — one built on trust that may not survive the truth. A period horror thriller about deception, survival, and the dangerous assumptions we make about who deserves our loyalty.

Directed by Claire Forgie. Watch an excerpt →

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Feature Screenplay · 2025

When an AI-driven cheating scandal tears through a Melbourne university, four students and their principled professor are forced into an ethical reckoning none of them are prepared for. A contemporary drama about integrity, connection, and the blurring line between authentic and artificial, in both technology and human relationships.

Eyes of Another

Feature Screenplay · 2024

A man who can inhabit and control another person's body for two hours after making eye contact has spent years treating his ability as a thrill. When a covert government agency discovers him and forces him into a mission to prevent a domestic terror attack, his gift becomes a cage.