Two flash

Many thanks to National Flash Fiction Day Competition judges James Norcliffe and Elizabeth Smither for long-listing two of my fictions: "What We Talk About When We Talk About The Treaty" and "An Approach to Keeping Cacti". I look forward to reading at the prize-giving on June 22, at Auckland Central Library.

Shush ear

The best thing about no longer being Features Editor of Flash Frontier is that I now have time to write and submit fiction there again. It was lovely to return from Taipei to the news that one of my stories had made the cut this month.

Thank you (or, using the Mandarin I've picked up in Taipei, xièxie) to Michelle Elvy and James Norcliffe for including "The Ear of Dionysus" in February's "Whispers" issue.