Fiction
Published stories
'Childself', short story, Overland #258, Autumn 2025
'Herbies', short story, FUTURES Anthology, Glimmer Press August 2024
‘Lifedorm’, short story, Griffith Review #85, August 2024
'Animal Ark', short story, Nature Futures, Jan 2024
‘Iso’, short story, Meanjin, summer 2023/24
'Feedback', short story, Antipodian SF #300, Sept 2023
‘Creaking’, short story, Overland online, October 2021
‘Shitmining’, short story, Aurealis #155, October 2022
‘Ask Bernard’, short story, Aurealis #144, September 2021
‘The Body’, short story, Aurealis #147, February 2022
‘Cloud brawls’, short story, The Big Issue Fiction Edition, August 2019
‘Swim camp’, short story, Antipodian SF #288, Sept 2022
‘Versus the sea’, short story, Antipodian SF, August 2021
‘The woman I remember’, short story, Visible Ink, November 2009
‘A pleasant day at the zoo’, short story, Verandah 25, September 2010
‘The language epidemic’, short story, Page Seventeen, Issue #6, November 2008
Awards
Winner, Peter Carey Short Story Award 2023
Winner, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild/Conflux Short Story Competition 2024
Honourable Mention, Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize 2026 (North American Review)
Longlist, Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2026
Best New Talent, Ditmar Awards 2026
Finalist, Aurealis Award Best Science Fiction Short Story 2024
Shortlist, Queensland Writers Centre Publishable Program 2025
Shortlist, Griffith Review ‘Emerging Voices’ Competition 2023
Longlist, Furphy Literary Prize 2023
Longlist, Geelong Writers Prize 2024
Longlist, Peter Carey Short Story Award 2023 & 2025
Works in progress
Word of the Year, novel-in-stories, 65,000 words (shortlisted for Queensland Writers Centre's 'Publishable' Program 2025)
Communal Me, novel, 75,000 words
The Last Readers, novella, 35,000 words
Contact me for synopsis and sample chapters at greg.foyster@gmail.com