ANTHOLOLOGIES
ACE IV: Arresting Contemporary stories by Emerging Writers
Emerging authors from vast geographical regions examine the conundrum and contradiction of human experience through carefully crafted detail. The brevity of short-form writing makes it an apt vessel for capturing the haunting incompleteness of human experience. Through flash and traditional length short stories—fiction and life writing, as well as hybrid forms of storytelling—there is a compelling ebb and tow of ideas, as focalised through highly idiosyncratic voices. The authors work deftly, paying due homage to the crucial relationship between the focalising voice and sharply rendered detail—cultivating narrative features with intuitive hands and minds, fashioning abstracted realities that linger beyond the final lines of the text.
Featuring my award-winning short story Kerania Versus the Dream
Witchcraft. Volume 6 - Heroines Anthology
In Witchcraft, the real trials of women branded as witch are remembered; and the lineage of women's witchcraft is restored through reconnection with craft, kin, and deep roots in myth and folklore.
This special edition is the sixth volume of Heroines: An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry. In the Heroines Anthology women writers reimagine women in myth, fairy tale, folklore or legend, & tell women's lost histories and untold stories. Edited by Sarah Nicholson.
Featuring my short story: The Menopause Witches
Completed Manuscripts
The Bones Beneath
Adult Speculative Dystopian Fiction
A dual-POV speculative fiction for fans of Emily St John Mandel, Laila Lalami and Jessamine Chans, and for fans of Silo and those who like the uncanny atmospherics of From.
Ministry Watcher, Lilithandra Jorah has spent years ensuring the citizens of Vassilopolis remain obedient, forcing them to purge their negative emotions onto those the city traps underground. But Lilith hides her own dark secret: she's Defective. Beneath Vassilopolis, 13-year-old street-orphan Bonnie Os Maia is the only one who sees Lilith fall from the rocky sky. She mistakes Lilith for an Angel, come to save them all and vows to do whatever it takes to keep the Angel safe in the anarchic undercity. To earn redemption and free those she's wronged, Lilith will have to confront the Ministry that has been her life and the darkness it has hidden. But the Ministry is Watching, and it's prepared to kill to keep Lilith and its secrets buried forever.
Selected for FutureScapes International Workshop.
Available for representation.
The Book That Broke the World
Middle Grade Fantasy Fiction
A dual-POV fantasy fiction for fans of Nevermore and the House at the Edge of Magic.
Sophie and Zebediah have nothing in-common, unless you count the fact that Sophie’s dad is the reason Zeb’s parents are missing, presumed dead.
Sophie’s father Max has sacrificed everything — even his relationship with her — to find Hermes Trimegistus’ five books of power. Books with the ability to reshape reality. When the paeleographers who aided him go missing, Sophie must team up with their hostile son to find them. Their quest lands them in an endless library that contains every story ever told. In a place where just opening a book is treacherous, getting to the end of the tale alive is never guaranteed. But Sophie and Zeb must leap through stories to find the books they’re looking for before it’s too late. And Sophie has a terrible choice to make — save her dad or sacrifice him to save reality.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Hardie Grant Egmont Ampersand Prize.
Available.
Manuscripts in Progress
Working Title —
Penelope and the Sky Pirate
New Adult, Romantasy, Steampunk x Greek Mythology Retelling
Finding Athena
Memoir & non-fiction
A story about the goddess of wisdom, about my grandmothers and about me as a diaspora Greek woman, and about finding Athena in all of us.