A short, simple, light-hearted story of striving, hope, loss, frustration and regret.
Finalist in the 2022 Newcastle Short Story Awards and published in the 2022 Newcastle Short Story Awards Anthology.
https://hunterwriterscentre.org/newcastle-short-story-award-2022/
A short story on genealogy/ancestry
Shortlisted for the 2022 E. M. Fletcher Writing Competition and to be published in the December 2022 edition of The Ancestral Searcher. (I will provide a link once publication is available)
https://www.familyhistoryact.org.au/index.cfm?module=news&pageMode=indiv&page_id=1737914
A short fantastical story regarding the meaning of life.
Prize winner of the Writer's Playground One-Year Anniversary Challenge 2022.
You can read it here... https://www.writersplaygroundllc.com/stories
'The New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing is one of Australia's premier short fiction awards for crime writing.' In 2022 Dan Davies was not only Commended in the Fiction category, he was also the Winner of the Emerging Author Award for his story 'Red Flags'. Here is a link to the New England Writer's Centre website where you can read the winning stories and the judges comments; https://www.newc.org.au/2022-thunderbolt-winners.html
Here is a little story I wrote decades ago when I was 22. It came into being as a result of a challenge issued by my mother. She asked if I could write a feminist story with a female protagonist without constituting her as an object of the male gaze. She ended up using this story in one of her many books for which I have provided the following reference;
Davies, D. 1993. Vuthsanya. In B. Davies, Shards of Glass. Children Reading and Writing Beyond Gendered Identities. Routledge. Pp. 190-192.
I am currently working on a short novel that tells of the missing years of Vuthsanya - in between the beginning and the end of this story.
