Shane Jesse Christmass

Shane Jesse Christmass is a Perth-born, Melbourne-based writer. In 2006 he was runner-up in The Age Short Story Competition with his entry Remaking the Image of the World which the newspaper's literary editor, Jason Steger, called a "highly inventive story, chocked with surrealistic allusion, nightmare imagery and psychological menace". In 2008 Paroxysm Press published an anthology of his short stories called Croak & Grist. He's also published a number of stories including 'Shut Down the Pick Up' (Waste, 2004, Paroxysm Press), '5' (Shotgun, 2006, Paroxysm Press), 'The Arvo & Early Evening of the Axe' (10 Years that Didn't Kill Us, 2008, Paroxysm Press), 'The Charnel Stink Within', (Mini Shots, 2008, Vignette Press) and 'Cold to the Point Past Death', (Red Cent Publishing, 2010). Other fiction work has featured in the journals New Wave Vomit, LIES/ISLE, amphibi.us, Cordite, one-eight vulture, dotdotdash and The Diamond & the Thief, as well as sound poetry in the Atlanta journal, As Long As It Takes. He's just completed his first public reading of his screenplay, Orderly, at the inaugural Lion Pie Laboratory in Sydney. He edits the journal Queen Vic Knives. He's also a member of the band Mattress Grave.