STORIES & ANTHOLOGIES

Mark is an award-winning writer of short fiction, with credits including the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, and his work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue, The Victorian Writer and The Australian.

Mark’s stories have also been featured in several anthologies including Best Australian Stories, Minds Went Walking: The Songs of Paul Kelly Reimagined and Lines To The Horizon: Australian Surf Writing

SHORT STORIES

Anthology Contributions

  • An Archipelago of Stars in Minds Went Walking, The Songs of Paul Kelly Reimagined – Curated by Jock Serong, Neil A. White & Mark Smith (Fremantle Press) November 2022

  • The Sea Affected Life (10k) in Lines To The Horizon: Australian Surf Writing (Fremantle Press) April 2021

  • Sugar Bag Dreamin’ Country in A Lasting Conversation, Stories of Ageing (Brandl & Schlesinger) 2020

  • A Concreter’s Heart in We’ll Stand In That Place (Margaret River Press) 2019

  • Manyuk in Best Australian Stories (Black Inc) 2015

  • Land of Stones in Fish Anthology (Fish Publishing, Ireland) 2015

  • Sugar Bag Dreamin’ Country in Best Australian Stories (Black Inc) 2014 

  • Butcher’s Creek in The Trouble With Flying (Margaret River Press) 2014

Short Fiction

Twenty-five short fiction stories/pieces in (among others) Best Australian Stories, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue, Island, The Victorian Writer and The Australian.

Mark’s latest story The Angel of Fitzroy appeared in The Saturday Paper. Read it here.