Writing Award 2022

The lengths to which a father will go to protect his family in the face of dreadful danger, despite the resistance, fears, and doubts of those closest to him. In the final confrontation, he overcomes his greatest fear and finds help from an unexpected source.

Who Killed God - It's either the prophesied second coming, which would make this the New, New Testament or the story of a very dangerous man and the emancipation of women.

William Swallow, a twice-escaped British convict endeavours to steal the navy brig Cyprus from his captors in order to sail from Australia to England and reunite with his family.

In a future world, a visitor challenges an underground community with a fantastic new technology that will bring humans back to Earth’s surface. But the very technology that can save them violates The Law that has kept them alive for a generation. Their choice is freedom or continuing in slavery.

A 600+ day account of the pandemic based on the following.

1. Events around the world
2. Covid and it’s effects on everyone’s life and my predictions
3. My life, home, how I survived it. What I did and my positive attitude
4. Trips down memory Lane
and shared with social media.

Ernest Morrell’s life isn’t falling apart but his grasp on it is. One day, reaching his breaking point, he dons a troll mask and kidnaps his own son from daycare as part of an ill-conceived scheme to get back at his wife for being too unflappable.

Rayless Brown needs a dream come true to turn his 'if' into a 'when', however in Nocturne dreams can turn into nightmares and fight back

An English aristocrat assumes a highwayman's identity to restore stolen fortunes, meeting the love of his life along the way. Unbeknown to him he had killed her fiancé in a duel and she was out for revenge.

Changing the Sky is a meta-modernist retelling of Odyssey, in which two humble refugees embark on an arduous quest to achieve liberty and happiness replacing a traditional male protagonist's perspective.

A death in the family, a secret journal and a surprising legacy begin a daughter's journey to uncover her mother's hidden past and clear her name.

Troubleshot - A horror story of local politics, a satire, charts the plight of a village falsely identified as a trouble-hotspot, and a community that will benefit from public-sector support, whether they like it or not.