Cirrus@Austlit

Shane Jesse Christmass is a short story writer who in 2006 came runner-up in The Age Short Story Competition with his story Remaking the Image of This World. His work has previously appeared in anthologies for Adelaide's Paroxysm Press, namely Waste (2005), Shotgun (2006) and Ten Years of Things That Didn't Kill Us (2008) which Shane also co-edited. In 2007 an anthology of Hop Dac and Shane's stories, entitled Croak & Grist, was also published by Paroxysm. In late 2008 Shane decided to establish Lupara Publishing. He has written his first screenplay, as well as his second collection of short stories that had the working title Slick & Other Short Stories.