- 'Connective Tissue'# in Landfall 249 (print) and Reading Room (online, July 2025)
- 'Robinson in the Roof Space'# - Reading Room (October, 2024)
- 'Seeds'* The Penguin New Zealand Anthology, 2023
- 'Ambient Ecstasy' - The Listener (Summer Reading Issue, January 2022)
- 'Recessional'# - Griffith Review (April 2015)
- 'Parents in Decline'# - Griffith Review (May 2014)
- 'The Cuddies' - Warwick Review Vol.6 No.1 (May 2012)
- 'Touch'* - HarbourView (Sydney) (2011)
- 'Offshore Service'# - Griffith Review (October 2011); Spanish translation 'Servicio de alta mar' - Hermano Cerdo (April 2012)
- 'The Bartender's Glass' - JAAM 29 (October 2011)
- 'Statues' - Slightly Peculiar Love Stories (Rosa Mira Press, June 2011)
- 'The Waikato Farmers'# - The Long and The Short of It (May 2011)
- 'My Yale and My Harvard'# - The Listener (Summer Reading Issue, January 8, 2011)
- 'A Man Melting'* (title story from my collection) - Sunday Star Times (June 2010)
- '30 Ways of Looking at Marumaru South'# - Sport 38 (April 2010)
- 'Copies'* (print only) - Essential New Zealand Short Stories (June 2009) and The Best NZ Fiction Volume 5 (Sept 2008); German translation 'Kopien' - Ein Anderes Land (DTV, 2012); Spanish translation 'Copias' - Hermano Cerdo (April 2015).
- 'Manawatu'* - Sport 36 (June 2008) - see also: discussion on Jesse Mulligan's Short Story Club from November 2017
- 'Eugene Ruddy' - Takahe 63 (April 2008)
- 'The Ditch' and 'Eyes' - Etchings 4 (Feb 2008)
- 'Christo Redentor' - JAAM 25 (Dec 2007)
- 'More Great Solos for Clarinet' - Turbine 2007
- 'Another Language'* - Winner of Katherine Mansfield Award Novice Section 2007
- 'The City We Forgot To Name' (failed novel extract + more) - Turbine 2006
* features in A Man Melting (Vintage, 2010)
# will appear in Offshore Service (OUP, 2016)
Published Poetry
Non-fiction
Essays
I wrote a fortnightly column in The Dominion Post's Your Weekend magazine from 2010-2014. Click on the links below to read those that also appeared online:
Published Poetry
- 'Glen Coe' and 'In Time' - Turbine 2011
- 'The Link Arcade' - Broadsheet (November 2011)
- Five poems and five micro-stories - Pasture No.1 (August 2011)
- 'Six Napkins', 'Ten Places I Could Be When the Big One Hits' - Trout 16 (December 2010)
- 'Two Days After Tomorrow' - Side Stream 25 (July 2010)
- 'Translation' and 'Cardio' - Enamel 2 (July 2010)
- 'Free Walking Tour With My Brother', 'The Dog at Christmas' - Snorkel 11 (April 2010)
- 'Space for a Thousand Secrets' - Brief 38 (Aug 2009)
- 'The Bumblebee' - Blackmail Press 23 (Jan 2009)
- Three Poems - The Lumière Reader (Dec 2008)
- 'Himalyan White' - Turbine 2008
- 'Distinctions', 'The Poet' - Trout 15 (Oct 2008)
- 'You Jane Eyre, Me Tarzan Presley' - Snorkel 7 (April 2008)
- 'Wellington Triptych' - Snorkel 2 (Oct 2005)
Non-fiction
Essays
- 'Everything wrong with NBA 2K18's MyCareer mode and one way to fix it', The Spinoff, October 2017
- 'Bellwethers for the liquid life: the rise of professional video gaming and the people happy to sit and watch' Horoeka Reading Grant essay, June 2015
- 'Do newspaper columnists dream of electric sheep?' an essay about my time as a columnist and why I quit, at The Pantograph Punch, October 2014
- 'The Vonnegut Effect: Entering the potato barn' short essay prepared for session at the Iowa City Writers Festival, 2013
Book reviews
- Duncan Sarkies, Star Gazers, in Landfall Review Online (August 2025)
- Abdulrazak Gurnah, Theft in The NZ Listener (March 2025)
- Colum McCann, Twist in The NZ Listener (March 2025)
- David Coventry, Performance in Landfall Review Online (October 2024)
- Rachel Cusk, Parade, The NZ Listener (June 2024)
- Pip Adam, Audition, in Landfall Review Online (November 2023)
- Murdoch Stephens, Down from Upland in Landfall Review Online (September 2022)
- Patrick Evans, Bluffworld in The NZ Listener (March 2021)
- Tennant, Watson and Taylor (Eds), City at the Centre at Newsroom (November 2020)
- Ian Richards, Drongo in Landfall Review Online (June 2020)
- Thalia Henry, Beneath Pale Water in Landfall Review Online (May 2018)
- CK Stead, The Necessary Angel, Patrick Evans, Salt Picnic, Tim Corballis, Our Future is in the Air in NZ Books (Autumn 2018)
- Stephanie Johnson, The Writers Festival in NZ Books (Summer 2015)
- Kerry Donovan Brown, Lamplighter in NZ Books (Spring 2014)
- Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding in The NZ Listener (January 2012)
- Richard Ford (Ed.), Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar in The NZ Listener (August 2011)
- 'Shopping for Wedded Bliss' June 2011, Jetstar Magazine
Columns
I wrote a fortnightly column in The Dominion Post's Your Weekend magazine from 2010-2014. Click on the links below to read those that also appeared online:- Click on image to read my first column from September 2010:
- 'When the music stops' 8 November 2010
- 'Happy de facto anniversary darling' 5 May 2011
- 'Getting distracted in cyberspace' 21 May 2011
- 'Going posh at a writers festival' 4 June 2011
- 'Travel envy' 18 June 2011
- 'The perfect landlord' 2 July 2011
- 'Dear day job' 16 July 2011
- 'Communing with the kiwi' 31 July 2011
- 'The business of poetry' 28 August 2011
- 'Fun in the sun?' aka 'Ginger crunch time' 8 October 2011
- 'No smile for the camera' aka 'Wairarapa Ambush' 24 March 2012
- 'The first home-buyer circus' 8 April 2012
- 'A spawner's guide to home buying' 21 April 2012
- 'The buildings that shape us' 19 May 2012
- 'She is not amused' 2 June 2012
- 'Black Knight Syndrome' 30 June 2012
- 'DIY: It's not in my DNA' 28 July 2012
- 'The past is so hot right now' 8 September 2012
- 'The bump list' 22 September 2012
- 'Give way? Give me a break' 6 October 2012
- 'The reverse Clark Kent' 20 October 2012
- 'Reading the signs for a revelation' 3 November 2012
- 'Pride of the plains' 17 November 2012
- 'Tomorrow's parents, today' 1 December 2012
- 'Wisdom for the prophets of doom' 15 December 2012
- 'The year of quinoa and nappies' 12 January 2013
- 'Is chivalry dead?' 26 January 2013
- 'Buckle up chaps, it's V-day' 9 Februrary 2013
- 'Flying south for the weekend' 23 March 2013
- 'A sporting chance' 20 April 2013
- 'Confessions of a teen pirate' 4 May 2013
- 'A clip around the ears' 18 May 2013
- 'A man for all seasons' 1 June 2013
- 'A Wellingtonian in Iowa' 7 September 2013
- 'Monumental fun in Washington' 30 November 2013
- 'Collector's edition' 14 December 2013
- 'Not-so-grand designs' 28 December 2013
- 'Age by association' 11 January 2014
- 'Dealing to the man card' 25 January 2014
- 'Hunger games' 8 February 2014
- 'The voice in my head' 8 March 2014
- 'Keep calm and worry on' 22 March 2014
- 'No place like home' 5 April 2014
- 'Welcome to the adjustment bureau' 19 April 2014
- 'Wrest in peace' 3 May 2014
- 'Things I've learnt in my 30s' 31 May 2014
- 'The Daycare Blues' 28 June 2014
- 'Better luck next time' 12 July 2014
- 'Nowhere to hide' 26 July 2014
- 'All hail urban invaders' 23 August 2014
- 'Ruins and remembering' 6 September 2014
Other
- 'Favourite fictional twins' on Random House Australia's website, 11 September 2013
- 'Craig Cliff on his uneasy relationship with historical fiction' on NZ Book Council's website, 7 August 2013
- 'Craig Cliff on the trans-Tasman literary gulf and how to bridge it' - on the Australian Publishers and Booksellers' blog, Jan 2012 (excerpted from article written for NZ Author magazine)
- 'Confessions of a prize winner' - a guest post on Commonwealthwriters.org, November 2011
