Ian won the 2021 Jennifer Burbidge award, the 2020 “Affa” short story award and the “Needle in the Hay” major competition of 2015. He placed third in the 2016 “Write Around the Murray”.
He has been shortlisted in The Alan Marshall short story award, received two Honorable Mentions in Chris Broadribb’s popular “Best of Time” competitions, among others. He often score points in his rounds of NYC Midnight’s writing challenges.
Several of Ian’s stories were published in Eclectic E-zine and Celapene Press’ “Short and Twisted” anthologies going back to 2008, and also the TL;DR “Stories for Hope” anthology, released in 2020. He is part of the online writing group “Scribes Divided”; editing, and contributing to, their second anthology, which ranked at number one in several Amazon categories upon its 2019 release.
Ian has written screenplays for Tropfest, with one being considered by Logie Winner Lex Marinos. His unpublished 78,000 word manuscript “Don’t You Know Who I Am?” won the 6th edition of the “Paperback in Your Hand” competition.
