Published
2024 ‘Beasts of Bone and Promise’, Time Machine Australia Bound, PS Publishing
2024 ‘Heavy Metal’, Spanish translation in Excelsius
2024 Calvaria Fell, a collaborative collection by Cat Sparks & Kaaron Warren, Meerkat Press
2024 ‘Ecocatastrophe SF Was Supposed to be a Warning, Not a Road Map‘, Vol1 Brooklyn
2024 ‘When Bono Kissed Me’, The Next Best Book Blog
2024 Calvaria Fell review, Publishers Weekly
2023 ‘So Blue and So Much Lost’, The Australian Fabians Review, Issue 4, 2023
2023 Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference: Uncommon Realities – Books & Biomes
2023 Let The Cat In podcast: Episode 27 – Mirror2
2022 Craig Cormick interviews Cat Sparks & Robert Hood, Secrets from the Green Room podcast
2022 ‘The Space Between All Possible Ways’ – Phase Change: imagining energy futures, Ed. Matthew Chrulew, Twelfth Planet Press
2021 The Future is Now! Climate Fiction: online panel for Goldfield Libraries featuring James Bradley, Jason Nahrung, myself and Stuart Winser
2021 Dark Harvest scores a mention in Gary K Wolfe’s 2020 Year in Review
2021 ‘Dreams of Hercules’ – Relics, Wrecks & Ruins, Ed. Aiki Flinthart
2021 ‘Farewell to Elephant’ – Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3
2020 Galactic Chat #79: Cat Sparks
2020 Talking Cli Fi with James Bradley on The Drax Files Radio Hour in Second Life
2020 Coode Street Podcast – Episode 431: Ten Minutes with Cat Sparks
2020 Dark Harvest, short story collection, Newcon Press, UK
Locus review by Gary K Wolfe
2020 ‘Hacking Santorini’, Dark Harvest, Newcon Press
2019 ‘Before Dominica‘ Kaleidotrope
2019 The Drax Files Radio Hour Episode 225 Viewing Party [Cat Sparks]
2019 ‘You Will Remember Who You Were’, Dimension6, ed. Keith Stevenson, April 2019, Coeur de Lion Publishing. Shortlisted for an Aurealis Award
2018 ‘And the Ship Sails On’ – Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Original Australian Fantasy, ed. Russell B Farr, Ticonderoga Publications
2018 RIOTACT interview by Zoe Pleasants
2018 Interview by Amanda Bridgeman
2018 ‘Cassini Falling’ – Continuum 14: Conjugation program book, reprinted in AntipodeanSF 250
2018 Fossick Book Reviews tackles Lotus Blue
2018 ‘Fata Morgana’ – Mother of Invention, eds Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts, Twelfth Planet Press
2017 ‘Precious Things’ – A story from my childhood
2017 ‘War is Very Popular These Days’ – Luminescent Threads – Connections to Octavia Butler, Twelfth Planet Press
2017 Dragon Girl – Podcastle (reprint and audio)
2017 Crafting Speculative Landscapes – RagnaRok Publications
2017 Interviewed by Angela Slatter
2017 The Qwillery: Interview with Cat Sparks, author of Lotus Blue
2017 Australian Women Writers Challenge – Cat Sparks interviewed by Rivqa Rafael
2017 Move over Sci Fi – Here Comes Climate Fiction – The Daily Beast
2017 Beaming in From SXSW – Cosmos Magazine
2017 Lotus Blue Talos Press (Skyhorse)
Nominated for The Compton Crook, Aurealis and Ditmar awards
2017 The One Book That Shook My Faith in Nature & Humanity – Tor.com
2017 Cat Sparks talks ‘Lotus Blue’ and a new genre in Cli Fi, Hypable
2017 The Big Idea – Whatever
2017 13 Horrible Apocalypses That Will Make You Question Your Faith in Humankind, Electric Literature
2017 ‘Climate science and climate fiction – where data intersects with art‘, Boing Boing
2017 ‘Prayers to Broken Stone‘ – Kaleidotrope, Spring issue
2016 ‘Dragon Girl’, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Ed. Liz Gryzb and Talie Helene, Ticonderoga Publications (reprint)
2016 ‘Jericho Blush’, Cyclopean, Issue #2, Ed. Chase Capener, Cyclopean Press
2016 ‘No Fat Chicks’, In Your Face, ed. Tehani Wessely, Fablecroft Press – Winner of Best Short Story Ditmar 2016
2015 ‘The Seventh Relic’, Focus 2014: highlights of Australian short fiction, ed. Tehani Wessely, Fablecroft Press (reprint)
2015 ‘New Chronicles of Andras Thorn’, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Ed. Liz Gryzb and Talie Helene, Ticonderoga Publications (reprint)
2015 ‘Hot Rods’, Loosed Upon The World, Saga Press, ed. John Joseph Adams (reprint)
2015 ‘Veterans Day’, Hear Me Roar, Ed. Liz Gryzb, Ticonderoga Publications
2015 ‘Dragon Girl’, The Never Never Land, CSFG Publishing
2015 ‘Hot Rods’, Lightspeed Magazine, ed. John Joseph Adams
2015 ‘Street of the Dead’. You’re Not Alone, ed. Damien Broderick (reprint)
2014 ‘New Chronicles of Andras Thorn’, Dimension 6, ed. Keith Stevenson, Coeur de Lion Publishing
2014 ‘The Seventh Relic’, Phantazein, ed. Tehani Wessely, Fablecroft Publishing – winner of 2014 Best Short Story Ditmar
2014 ‘Dark Harvest’, Solaris Rising 3, ed. Ian Whates, Solaris
2013 ‘Chinaman’s Bluff’, ed. Gerry Huntman, SQmag
2013 The Bride Price, [collection] Ticonderoga Publications (winner of 2014 Best Collected Work Ditmar)
2013 ‘Scarp’, The Bride Price, Ticonderoga Publications (winner of 2014 Best Short Story Ditmar)
2013 ‘Beyond the Farthest Stone’, The Bride Price, Ticonderoga Publications
2013 ‘Daughters of Battendown’, One Small Step, ed. Tehani Wessely, Fablecroft Publishing
2011 ‘The Alabaster Child’, Gutshot: Weird West Tales, ed. Conrad Williams, PS Publishing (Anthology nominated for a British Fantasy Award)
2011 The Sleeping and the Dead, Ishtar, Morrigan Books (nominated for a DITMAR award)
2011 ‘Dead Low’, Midnight Echo #6, The Australian Horror Writers Association
(nominated for an Aurealis Award)
2011 ‘Beautiful’, Anywhere But Earth, ed. Keith Stevenson, Coeur de Lion Publishing
2010 ‘All the Love in the World’, Sprawl, ed. Alisa Krasnostein, Twelfth Planet Press. Reprinted in Hartwell and Kramer’s Years Best SF 16, Harper Voyager, 2011
2010 Heart of Stone, X6, ed. Keith Stevenson, Coeur de Lion Publishing
2010 ‘The Piano Song’, Scenes from the Second Storey, eds. Amanda Pillar and Pete Kempshall, Morrigan Books
2009 ‘The Snow Leopard’, Borderlands Magazine, #11
2009 ‘Seventeen’, Masques, ed. Gillian Polack, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild
2008 ‘Piper’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #36
2008 ‘Palisade’, Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, ed. Mike Allen, Norilana Books
2008 ‘Shadows of Our Gods’, Borderlands Magazine, #10
2008 ‘Sammarynda Deep’, Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, ed. Ekaterina Sedia, Senses Five Press. Reprinted in Award Winning Australian Writing 2009, Melbourne Books
2007 ‘A Million Shades of Nightmare’, Dark Animus, #10. Recorded as a podcast for Outlandish Voices in 2009
2007 ‘Hollywood Roadkill’, On Spec, #69, The Copper Pig Publishing Society
2007 ‘Right to Work’, Workers Paradise, eds. Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans, Ticonderoga Publications
2007 ‘Champagne and Ice’,Aurealis: Australian fantasy and Science Fiction
2007 ‘A Lady of Adestan’, Orb, # 7, June
2007 ‘The Bride Price’, New Ceres, #2, 2007
2007 ‘Arctica’, Fantastic Wonder Stories, ed. Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications
2006 ‘The Golden Hour’, WyR[E]d online magazine
2006 ‘The Jarrah Run’, C0ck, eds. Andrew Macrae and Keith Stephenson, Coeur de lion press
2006 ‘The Delicacy of Dragonflies’, Fables and Reflections, #8
2006 ‘Street of the Dead’, Cosmos, #9, June. Reprinted in Greek Newspaper Eleftherotypia, 2009
2006 ‘Blue Stars For All Saviours’ Day’, The Outcast, ed. Nicole R. Murphy, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild
2006 ‘The Ice Bride’, Shadowed Realms, #9, The Redback Edition, Brimstone Press
2005 ‘Message in a Bottle’, Borderlands, #6
2005 ‘Macchiato Lane’, TiconderogaOnline, #5
2005 ‘Historical Perspective’, Simulacrum
2005 ‘Arcana’. Mitch? 4: Slow Dancing in Quicksand
2004 ‘Home by the Sea’, Orb, #6. Reprinted in The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2005, eds. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt, MirrorDanse Books
2004 ‘Last Dance at the Sergeant Majors’ Ball’, Borderlands Magazine, #3, Reprinted in L Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future, vol. XXI, 2005
2004 ‘Meltdown my Plutonium Heart’, Encounters, eds. Maxine McArthur and Donna Maree Hanson, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild
2003 ‘I am my Father’s Daughters’, Visions Magazine, #23
2003 ‘The Birdcage’, Elsewhere, ed. Michael Barry, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild
2003 ‘Our Lady of Spatial Anomalies’, Fables and Reflections, #5
2003 ‘Song of the Crescent Moon’, Gynaezine
2003 ‘Gracelands’, Dark Animus, #3
2003 ‘Roswell 14’ (co-written with Max Blaxall), Consensual 2: The Second Coming
2003 ‘Cross the Nullarbor to the Sea’, Glimpses, Vision Writer’s Group anthology
2003 ‘Pod’, Ideomancer Unbound, eds. Mikal Trimm and Chris Clarke, Fictionwise
2003 ‘Rat’s Nest’, Potato Monkey, #3
2002 ‘14 Shopping Days Till Xmas’, Vision Newszine
2002 ‘Birthmark’, Antipodean SF, #55
2002 ‘Arthur Nolan’s Twilight’, Aurealis: Australian fantasy and Science Fiction, #30
2002 ‘Rites of Passage’, Mitch?3: Hacks to the Max
2002 ‘100% M-Hype’, Passing Strange, ed. Bill Congreve, MirrorDanse Books
2002 ‘Reigning Cats and Dogs’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #1
2002 ‘Meltdown my Plutonium Heart’, Borderlands Convention Program
2002 ‘Epiphany on the Wirewalk’, Fables and Reflections, #1
2002 ‘Hollywood Hills’, Antipodean SF, #45
2002 ‘Fuchsia Spins by Moonlight’, Redsine, #7
2001 ‘Invasion of the Latte Snatchers’, Mitch?2: Tarts of the New Millennium