Hi. I’m Daniel.
I’m a novelist, essayist, editor, and publisher, originally from the east coast of Australia and now based in the hills outside Edinburgh.
You’ll find information about my literary activities right here on this page. I’m represented by Martin Shaw at the Shaw Literary Agency. If you’re looking for my most recent writing, or my older essays and reviews, all my occasional work is available on Substack.
Other than popping up occasionally on Bluesky, I’m not an active user of social media. If you’d like to reach me, the best way is to click the arrow below and drop a message into the contact form.
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Fiction
Editing and Publishing
In 2017, I founded Splice, a small press dedicated to publishing unconventional, formally adventurous prose. Since then, Splice’s novels and collections of short fiction and essays have been listed for many prizes and acclaimed in media around the world.
I’ve been the Fiction Editor at 3:AM Magazine since 2023. I commission, edit, and publish around thirty pieces of prose per year. I say “pieces of prose,” not “stories,” because fiction at 3:AM tends to be formally irreverent, innovative, or indeterminate.
I regularly work with aspiring and established writers to help them shape their novels, short fiction, and essays. If you’d like a fresh pair of eyes on your writing, and some written feedback, send it to me and I’ll be in touch.
In 2010 and 2011, I edited the first collection of peer-reviewed scholarship on the American writer Edward P. Jones. In 2024, this landmark text then became the basis for a special edition of the Journal of the Short Story in English focusing on Jones.
In 2009 and 2010, I led the editorial committee behind Antithesis, a journal of original prose, poetry, and peer-reviewed scholarship, based at the University of Melbourne. The committee’s work culminated in the publication of Antithesis #20.
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