Award Win! - SciFi Film Festival

Some of my short horror and YA sci-fi has received honourable mentions in various year's best anthologies, but so far as I'm aware I haven't ever received an award.

UNTIL NOW -

Drum roll please:

badabadbadabadabadbadabadaba Ta-Ching!

Earlier this month my story Future Me, Future Her, a young adult time-travel tale was highly recommended by the SciFi Film Festival in NSW and I was awarded a cash prize. Okay, so it didn't win. It looks like it came second or third (Robert N Stephenson also got a highly recommended gong) but I received an award and that's important to me. Thanks to Keith Stevenson for judging and Coeur de Lion/Dimension6 for funding the award, and thanks to the SciFi Film Festival for just generally being awesome!

Click here for the full list of award winners for film and writing.
And Click here to read my story.

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