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.