INTERVIEWS & JUDGING

 

Interviews

Ten questions with Michelle Elvy & Kiri Piahana-Wong, editors of Short | Poto (2025)

Maryland Literary Review (2025)

Write on, OAR FM (2025)

Bath Flash Fiction Award competition judge (2024)

‘Words from the bubble’, Rachel Dore interview (March, 2024)

Ten questions with Michelle Elvy & Witi Ihimaera, editors of A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha (2023)

Guest interview at Irish journal SPLONK (April, 2023)

Bath Novella-In-Flash Award competition judge (2022)

Interview at Ad Hoc Fiction, about the other side of better (2021)

Radio NZ interview discussing the other side of better (June, 2021)

Radio NZ interview discussing anthology Ko Aotearoa Tatou, We are New Zealand, born out of mosque attacks looks at what it means to be Kiwi (December, 2020)

Radio NZ interview on National Flash Fiction Day 10-year anniversary (June, 2020)

So you wrote a book? Interview with Nancy Stohlman, about the everrumble (2020)

Interview at takahē (2019)

On the short form; new judge of Bath Flash Fiction Award (2016)

Guest Interview at Bath Flash Fiction Award (2016)

‘On the realm of feeling and understanding’, interview at Smokelong Quarterly (2015)

“Quick as a flash: the rise of short fiction”, article in stuff.co.nz (2015)

Smoke and mirrors, an interview at SmokeLong Quarterly (2015)

‘Kiwi Flash Fiction Day’, interview at Flash Fiction Chronicles, September 2014

Interview, Six Questions For…, June 2012

Expat author interview with Christopher Allen, travel writer and editor at Metazen, March 2012

 

Competitions

Dan Davin Short Story Award 2025

SmokeLong Summer Memoir-in-Flash 2025

Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2024

Bath Novella-in-Flash Award 2021, 2022

Lilian Ida Smith Award 2020

Reflex Fiction competition judge (2018)

SmokeLong Quarterly, guest editor (2018), interview here

Bath Flash Fiction Award (2016)

SmokeLong Quarterly; guest editor (2015), interview here

SmokeLong Quarterly; guest editor (2014)

NorthWrite 2013: Collaborations national writing competition for poetry and fiction

Northland (Whangarei) Poetry Wall competition  2013

International Writers’ Workshop (Auckland)  flash fiction competition 2012

Northland/ Whangarei Libraries National Flash Fiction Day competition 2012 & 2013

Whangarei Writers’ Workshop competition 2012

South Island Writers’ Association flash fiction competition 2012 & 2013

Flash Fiction World international competition Dec 2012