Dust and Dogs
Longlisted short story written for Australian Writers Centre 500-word Furious Fiction competition. March 2023 Smithy drags a cobwebbed canvas chair
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AJ Collins Short Stories and Articles
Leaving
Leaving: Excerpt from Oleanders Are Poisonous High Commendation in the 2015 Monash Short Story Writing Competition I hear Samuel get
Sexual Healing
Profile | Dr Vikki Prior The shady side of sex addiction and the trauma of surviving domestic abuse. First published
Lauren’s Lion Heart
It’s every new mother’s worst nightmare: finding out your newborn child might die before she reaches her first birthday. This
Grace From Grief
‘Shit happens. Life happens. It’s our job to do the best we can in whatever circumstance we’re given. There are
The Ungiver
Six-year-old Katie questions the authenticity of religious dogma and the harshness of adults who qualify the importance of kindness to
Hardcopy 2018 – autumn in Canberra
I laughed in shock and wobbly excitement when Nigel Featherstone’s email dropped into my inbox, offering me a placement at
Editing is a strange life
Any writer knows that the creative mind is a tenuous friend, given to disappearing just when you need it most.
Wringing pain into writing
Many writers question whether they should take advantage of witnessed pain by incorporating their family or friends’ stories into their
Speed dating demons
I’m about to face my demons This week I have cut myself off. From everyone and everything not writing related.
The writing process – blog hop
Diamonds don’t start out shiny My gorgeous friend and fellow scribe, Nicole Hayes, author of YA novel The Whole of My
Where do you write?
I do it on the patio with TC Where do you write? I once tried to do it in the
A Lost Father
Originally published in On The Ledge of the World – Visible Ink, Issue 25, 2013. Listen to recording by Kim
