Creative

HEAT

A husband and wife take drastic measures to future-proof their family, from filling their basement with 100 replacement fathers, to training an AI program on the data of their late mother.

big issue fiction edition 2024 chris ames — The Big Issue Fiction Edition

On a flight from Melbourne to Tokyo, a man finds himself thrust into pseudo-parenthood when he’s forced to take care of a stranger’s baby.

The Saturday Paper

Looking to outrun an unnamed grief, a woman takes experimental drugs to feel younger and younger.

Chris Ames Writer 2024 Hot Desk Fellows — Hot Desk Fellowship

This year, I’ll be editing my manuscript I MADE THIS JUST FOR YOU at the Wheeler Centre.

~ Fiction ~ THE WHEELER CENTRE (2024), HEAT (2024), THE BIG ISSUE (2024), THE SATURDAY PAPER (2024), SALT HILL JOURNAL (2024), THE BIG ISSUE (2023), no tokens (2022), X-R-A-Y (2022), Platypus Press (2020), ELECTRIC LITERATURE (2018), Heavy Feather Review (2018), Wildness (2018), Split Lip Magazine (2018), PIVOT (2018), Cosmonauts Avenue (2017), Passages North (2016), No Tokens (2016), MINETTA REVIEW (2015), Quiet Lightning (2015), Small Po[r]tions (2015), Eleven Eleven (2015), Big Lucks (2015), The Emerson Review (2015), Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine (2015), Midnight Breakfast (2015), Neutrons / Protons (2015), Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review (2014), Transfer Magazine (2014)

~ Nonfiction ~ The Believer (2020), the rumpus (2020), 3:AM Magazine (2018), The Litography Project (2015)

~ Illustration ~ Vitriol (2017), The Scofield (2016), Buffalo Almanack (2015), The Freshwater Review (2015), Green Apple Books (2014 - 2016), Muni Diaries (2013)

~ Awards, Nominations, FELLOWSHIPS, & Anthologies ~ Victorian premier’s literary awards (2025), lord mayor’s creative writing awards (2024), varuna residential fellowship, highly commended (2024), Peter Carey Short Story Award, SHORTLIST, HIGHLY COMMENDED (2024), Hot desk fellowship (2024), NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION (2023), DISQUIET FESTIVAL, SHORTLIST (2022), Shorts, Volume III (2021), Oxford university press: Literature course book (2019), Best of the Net, FINALIST (2015)