Essays & Short Stories
Ashley’s essays and short stories have been included in a number of journals and anthologies. Details of these publications – and links to some – are listed here.
• "The Cat", published in the Review of Australian Fiction - you can read an extract of this piece here
• "A Single Book: Poemas", published in Five Dials (scroll down to p. 47)
• "The Crow", published in Best Australian Short Stories 2012
• "Walking Underwater", published in Griffith Review: Surviving 2012
• "Elsie's House", published in Griffith Review: Annual Fiction Edition 2011
• "The Sun Rising" - published in Griffith Review: Annual Fiction Edition (2010)
• “Gunpowder and Shooting Stars” – published in Island in 2010
• “The Singular Animal: On Being and Having” – published in Brothers & Sisters (Allen & Unwin, 2009)
• “Eucalypts” – published in Australian Greats (Random House, 2008)
• “Where the Wild Things Are” – (essay online) published in Griffith Review: Hidden Queensland (2008)
• “Ultramarine” – (essay online) published in The Writers’ Reader (Cambridge University Press, 2007), The Best Australian Essays (Black Inc., 2003), A Place on Earth (UNSW Press, 2003)
• “On the Edge” – published in Where the Rivers Meet, a special Australian issue of Manoa: The Pacific Journal of International Writing (2007)
• “The Photograph” – published in Confessions and Memoirs: Best Stories Under the Sun vol. iii (Central Queensland University Press, 2006)
• “Every Colour of the Rainbow” – published in Heat: 12: Ten Years(Giramondo, 2006)
• “The Importance of the Snuffleupagus: Reading, Writing and Imaginary Friends” – published in
When Books Die (Finlay Lloyd, 2006)
• “Killing Lord Byron” – published in In Transit (Duffy & Snellgrove, 2001)
• “Memory Palace” and “Rape Crisis” – published in DIY Feminism (Allen & Unwin, 1996)
• “Firespell” – winner of the Banjo Paterson national fiction competition (1994)
• “Angel to Zoo” – winner of the Sydney Morning Herald / Dymocks open fiction competition (1993)
• “Blue and White Photography” – published in Southerly (vol. 53, no. 3, 1993)