Love-You-Lots in Litro The Brothers Rose in Every Day Fiction and Fudoki Magazine Apocalypse in The Marble Hand Literary Magazine Hardboiled in Control Literary Magazine Timetravel for Dummies in Aurealis 26 in Voiceworks Poetic Justice in Trove Kate in dotdotdash
Writing
Unmasked- Part V
Origin Story In which reality is blurred, we go back to the beginning to discover how it all began, sleep the sleep of the dead and get awkwardly personal. There is a moment a singular occasion one infinitesimal point in time just before my eyelids close just before sleep takes me between my conscious thoughts … Continue reading Unmasked- Part V
Unmasked- Part IV
Graphic In which our hero does a lot of things and nothing much at all, a blank page is filled, we learn a thing or two about the process and realise that Dream Girl doesn't screen her calls. "Dream Girl sighs, alone in the tunnel. She's wasting all her energy holding back the blood, stopping … Continue reading Unmasked- Part IV
Unmasked- Part III
After The Golden Age In which we skip straight to the comics anyway, discover a new level of disdain for the tabloids, encounter a threat and realise that it's not every dream in which we can fly. On Monday, all hell breaks loose. The Morning Herald runs with 'Dream Girl Sleeps With the Enemy' The … Continue reading Unmasked- Part III
Unmasked- Part II
Eternal Dream In which the obituaries page loses a member, we learn some comic comic book life lessons, can't help but stare at her legs, and realise there's a fundamental flaw in our hero's superpowers. Mild-mannered Matthew rough round the edges sits atop a skyscraper legs over ledges. Sitting there staring down on the heads … Continue reading Unmasked- Part II
Unmasked- Part I
The Dark Night Falls In which we are introduced to our hero, take a left to the chin, rethink the floor plan of our evil lair and plan a lunar picnic. She can fly, you know, if she wants to,she could zock you on the chin,she could punch right through three feet of steel if it should come to it. She could … Continue reading Unmasked- Part I
Letters from the Writing Trenches: Gallipoli
Where the Line Breaks is out in exactly one month. It's starting to feel very real. One of the very first sparks of inspiration for the book came to me in a very special place: Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula, during the early morning hours of Anzac Day 2013. I wrote all about it … Continue reading Letters from the Writing Trenches: Gallipoli
Love-You-Lots
My short story 'Love-You-Lots' was published by Litro US as part of their #FridayFlash series on Friday 19th February 2021. Litro is a literary and creative arts platform that champions emerging writers from around the world, in print and online. You can read the story by clicking here.
Where the Line Breaks Introduction Video
If you're curious as to what my upcoming debut novel Where the Line Breaks is all about, here's a short video where I discuss the main plot, made for the Books+Publishing newsletter about four new Fremantle Press authors. Books+Publishing is Australia’s number-one source of news about the book industry, keeping subscribers up to date with the … Continue reading Where the Line Breaks Introduction Video
The Path to Publication: The Digger (Apologies to Rupert Brooke)
Over the next few months, before Where the Line Breaks is published, I thought it might be interesting to look at the inspiration and the ideas that led me to write the novel. Where the Line Breaks tells the story of The Unknown Digger, a hugely popular but anonymous soldier poet of the First World … Continue reading The Path to Publication: The Digger (Apologies to Rupert Brooke)
This Love Won’t Break Your Heart (Happy New Year 2020)
2020 was a hell of a year. While we managed to get through it (and even managed some personal milestones: got engaged, finished edits for my debut novel, and revealed the cover art for said novel), we won't be looking to relive it anytime soon. So hopefully, like us, you welcomed in the new year … Continue reading This Love Won’t Break Your Heart (Happy New Year 2020)
Where the Line Breaks Cover Reveal
Here's the moment I first laid eyes on a physical copy of my debut novel 'Where the Line Breaks', opening the special delivery sent by my publishers in Perth, Western Australia over to our house in London. It's an amazing feeling to hold the outcome of years of hard work in your hands. I'm so … Continue reading Where the Line Breaks Cover Reveal
The Brothers Rose
My short story 'The Brothers Rose' was published by Every Day Fiction on July 14 2015. You can read it at http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-brothers-rose-by-michael-burrows/ Some of the comments the story received were: 'I don't know where I went, but I like how I got there.'- Dustin Adams 'This is fascinating, striking and very unusual.'- Derek McMillan 'I find … Continue reading The Brothers Rose
Apocalypse
My short story 'Apocalypse' was published in the first edition of The Marble Hand Literary Magazine on 1st May 2020. You can read it, and the other poems and short pieces that make up the issue, online at https://themarblehand.weebly.com/first-edition.html Written in 2018, 'Apocalypse' was one of the Highly Commended entries in the Manchester Fiction Prize … Continue reading Apocalypse
Anzac Day 2020
With Anzac Day services a little different this year (instead of heading to the Australian War Memorial in Hyde Park corner by night bus at three in the morning for the dawn ceremony, we woke up and listened to the Last Post in our lounge room while urban foxes walked down the empty street in … Continue reading Anzac Day 2020
Poems
Underwear Drawer 6/10/2016Illawarra Family Tree 26/9/2016Pup 18/9/2016Untitled 15/9/2016I Tell Myself 10/9/2016And Tonight My Heart 3/9/2016Two Foxes 30/8/2016Ugly Truth 26/7/2016On The Kiss of Wind #2 25/6/2016On The Kiss of Wind 25/6/2016Ghosts 12/6/2016In Which I Am Angry At Myself At 2am 20/5/2016I Will Write An Ode to Her Tight Jeans 8/5/2016Digger 25/4/2016Cirrus Dancing 23/6/2016Peregrinations 3/4/2016Creation Myths 12/3/2016The Island … Continue reading Poems
