writing





the diamond anchor

My debut novel The Diamond Anchor will be published by UQP in 2009.

recent publications

an essay...
'White Noise' - Overland #190

...some short stories...
'The wind and other children' - Heat #16

'Reason' - Best Australian Stories, 2007

'The Lap' - Vignette Press Mini Shots series, 2007

...and a couple of poems
the newcastle poetry prize anthology

and the page seventeen anthology

short stories

crow season - pdf 72k
winner of the Adelaide Advertiser short story competition, 2007 and second place in the Alice Springs News competition, 2007

the milk in the sky - pdf 64k
the title story in the Ptilotus Press anthology 'The milk in the sky: Writing from the Centre,' 2006

roadhouse - pdf 92k
a story about truck drivers - it's coming out in a box set you can get from the roadside services mob

the shipping views - pdf 68k
won the Eastern Regional Libraries competition in 2006

poems

absent without leave - pdf 32k
also appeared in 'the milk in the sky'

caracoles - pdf 32k
published in Hecate #32.1

song of the damned - pdf 84k
published in Hecate #32.2

folks who have published my work

total cardboard - slit magazine - hecate - overland - new matilda - griffith review - heat - ptilotus press - vignette press - black inc - australian roadside services, i shit you not

i'm also indebted to the NT Writers' Centre for ringing me up and getting me to do stuff.
publishing enquiries may be directed to the author:

jennifer mills
PO Box 3085
Alice Springs NT 0871
Australia

jenjen (AT)jenjen.com.au