THE PASSENGER SEAT
The Passenger Seat has been shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions/New Directions/Giramondo Novel Prize, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and The McKitterick Prize. It was runner-up in the 2026 “Tournament of Books” (losing narrowly in the final to David Szalay’s Flesh) and was a New York Times “Hidden Gem” book of 2025.
‘unsettling and powerful’ – New York Times
‘an unusual and deftly written literary thriller’ – Books & Publishing
‘A challenging novel that pushes against the elastic comfort of the expected’ – Foreword Reviews
Short fiction
‘Dad Bod’ in Port Magazine
‘Small Environmental Changes (light etc.)’ in NOON 2022
‘The Menaced Assassin’ in The Guardian
‘Come Back in Ten Years’ in 3:AM Magazine
‘Follower’ in Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Vol. 14
‘About Suffering’, Galley Beggar Press
Translations from German
Red (Hunger) by Senthuran Varatharajah; novel excerpt in The White Review Translation Anthology
‘The Autopsy’ by Georg Heym; short story at Scratch Classics
Creative-Critical Projects
‘National 60 (in a TDK Case)’ at A Row of Trees
‘A Little Death’ at Creative | Critical
Prizes
Shortlisted for the 2026 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2026 McKitterick Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Fitzcarraldo Editions/New Directions/Giramondo Novel Prize
Winner of the 2021 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition
Shortlisted for the 2021 Bristol Short Story Prize
Runner-up in the Belfast Book Festival’s 2021 Mairtin Crawford Award
Longlisted for the 2021 Desperate Literature Prize
Runner-up in the 2021 Cúirt New Writing Prize
Shortlisted for the 2020 Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019-2020 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 I’ll Show You Mine sex-writing prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Bath Short Story Award
Regal Beagle
Regal Beagle is a chapter book for younger readers. It’s available in bookshops in Australia, and here.