Overview
Tom Flood is the administrator and editor/assessor of his own writers' service. He has been a writer, editor, copy editor and proofreader for many years and has experience in many areas of writing, from picture books to literary fiction and non-fiction. He has been a highly regarded assessor at Driftwood Manuscripts and at Manuscripts Online. He was Chief Fiction Judge for NSW Premiers Awards 2003 (and also judged in 1993) and has judged and been on selection panels for NSW Premiers Writers Fellowship, Sydney University Fiction Award, Harper Collins Manuscript Award, Varuna, A Writers House and the Short and Sweet Theatre Festival 2007. He has edited and proofread for McPhee Gribble and Penguin, launched books for Allen&Unwin, Angus&Robertson and many other publishers, and has read, taught, lectured and spoken on creative writing from Perth to Paris. As a writer, Tom's work has won The Miles Franklin Award, the Victorian Premiers Award, the Australian/Vogel Award and the Orange Banjo Paterson Short Story Award. His writing has been commissioned in collections, journals and newspapers in Australia, UK and USA, for screen, stage and radio, and is also exhibited in the National Museum of Australia. He is also a working musician/singer/songwriter in the acoustic roots group Blues Angels. 'Flood is bringing Australian fiction to a place where it might take ten or twenty years for most other writers to catch up.' Prof. Nicholas Birns, American Assoc. of Australian Lit. Studies, in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXVII|Fall 2007, Dalkey Archive, University of Illinois, Ann Arbor, Ill. As an award-winning author, a literary judge, a teacher, editor and assessor, Tom has a knowledge and love of the craft of writing and brings exacting standards and, through his family, a lifetime of experience to the work before him, matching helpful criticism with empathy and respect for the work and its author.
Fiction
Action & Adventure
Comics & Graphic Novels
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Horror
Humor & Comedy
LGBTQ Fiction
Literary Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Picture Books
Romance
Science Fiction
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Young Adult
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
History
Humanities & Social Sciences
Music
New Age
Political Science & Current Affairs
Religion & Spirituality
Self-Help & Self-Improvement
Sex & Relationships
Travel
Languages
English (AUS)
English (NZ)
English (SA)
English (UK)
English (US)
Awards
- The Australian/Vogel Award 1988
- The Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction 1990
- The Miles Franklin Award 1990
- The Orange Banjo Patterson Award for Fiction 2003
- Pozieres: shortlisted Manning Clark House Cultural Award 2011.
- Energy Intelligence: Bronze Medal eLit Book Awards 2011.
- Tales from A Mountain City: shortlisted Asher Awards 2011, shortlisted William Saroyan International Prize for Literature 2012.
- Rohallion Dawn: shortlisted Dundee Internation Book Prize 2009, longlisted Amazon Manuscript Award 2009.
- The Last Whale: shortlisted Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2009
- Digging at the Crossroads of Time: Silver Medal, Independent Publishing Awards (IPPYs)
- The Pilo Family Circus. Winner ABC Book Awards + 4 more Aussie speculative awards, and shortlisted International Horror Guild Award 2011
- Who We Were. Shortlisted ACT Book of the Year 2014
- Amplify. Shortlisted Ned Kelly 1st Book Award 2016