On this page you’ll find a full list of all Sophie’s short stories that have been published in anthologies, whether for adults or for children and young adults.
Short stories published in anthologies for kids
It Only Happens Once, in After Dark, Omnibus Books, 1988
Wild Cat, in Weird, Omnibus Books, 1989
Blue, in The Blue Dress, Hodder Children’s Books, 1991. Reprinted many times, republished 2001
Mel, in Spine Chilling, Omnibus Books 1992
Mel, audio version, in Really Scary Stories for Brave Children, ABC Audio 2006, republished 2016
Cry Wolf, in Amazing, Omnibus Books, 1990
Circles of Fire, in The Lottery, Omnibus Books 1994
Circles of Fire, in Altered Voices, Scholastic USA 1994
The Neptune Clock, in Tales from the Deep, Spinouts, Pearson Education 1999
The Three Builders, in Distant Shores, Spinouts, Pearson Education 2000
Bells Underwater, in Tales from the Wasteland, Hodder Australia, 2000
Bells Underwater, in Top Stories 2, Harcourt Education, 2007
Lancelot, in The Road to Camelot, Random House Australia 2002, republished 2009, also published as single Kindle story
Pintade, Ten out of Ten, Phoenix Education 2003
Duck’s Luck, in 30 Australian Stories for Children, Random House Australia 2003
She Just Wants to Play, in 30 Australian Ghost Stories for Children, Random House Australia 2004
Snake Man, in Top Stories 1, Harcourt Education 2007
Ghost, in Trust Me, Ford Street Publishing 2008
The Red Dwarf, in Picture This, Pearson Australia 2009
Once upon A Strangers’ City, in Alien Shores, Brass Monkey Books, 2012
Oh, for A Sausage Roll, in Stories for Five Year Olds, Random House Australia 2012
The Old Woman and the Imp, in Stories for Six Year Olds, RHA, 2012
The Magic Carpet, in Stories for Eight Year Olds, RHA 2012
Possum in the Roof, in Stories for Boys, Random House Australia 2013
Masha and the Bear, in Two Trickster Tales from Russia, Christmas Press 2013
The Rooster with the Golden Crest, in Two Trickster Tales from Russia, Christmas Press 2013
Note: Both stories from Trickster Tales also published in the audio version, published by Christmas Press 2014
The Dolls’ First Christmas, in Stories for Seven Year Olds, RHA 2014
Babushka and the Star, in Once Upon A Christmas, Christmas Press 2014
The Christmas Dragon, in Three Dragons for Christmas, Christmas Press 2015. Also in audio version with the two other stories in anthology, Christmas Press 2015
Barney Brown and the Christmas Cake, in A Christmas Menagerie, Christmas Press 2017
The Wrong Spoon, in A Christmas Cornucopia, Christmas Press 2019
Short stories published in anthologies for adults
The Tiger, in Beyond the Echo, UQP 1988
St Simon and the Devil, in Microstories, Angus and Robertson, 1993
The Great Deep, in The Mutant Files, DAW Books (USA) 2001
Here Be Dragons, in Land/Space Anthology, Tesseract Books(Canada) 2003
Once Upon A Strangers’ City, in Alien Shores, Brass Monkey Books 2014
The Romanov Opal, in And Then…The Great Big Book Of Adventure Tales, Vol. 1, ClanDestine Press, 2016
The Silver Apples of the Moon, in South of the Sun: Australian Fairy Tales For the 21st Century, Serenity Press 2021
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