Jane Percival

Jane Percival lives with her husband, Ben, at rural South Head, adjacent to the Kaipara Harbour.

The notion of the unpredictability of the natural world is a thread that runs through many of her short stories, and in keeping with many New Zealand writers, her narratives often touch on a person’s feelings of loneliness and isolation, and explore the ways that people interact with their surroundings, which in turn, can shape their thoughts and actions.

Jane’s first introduction to speculative fiction was an Edgar Allan Poe anthology discovered on her parents’ book shelf when she was young, and as a teenager and young adult, she devoured with relish, any fantasy, horror, or science fiction story she could lay her hands on.

Jane has an occasional blog, which can be found at https://heni-irihapeti.com/

Bibliography

Grandma’s House (27/12/2016), Micro Madness, In Flash Frontier December 2016: Micro, http://www.flash-frontier.com/december-2016-micro/

Around the Block (23/04/2016). In Flash Frontier April 2016: Slow, http://www.flash-frontier.com/april-2016-slow/

Moonshine Road (01/11/2015) Crab Fat Magazine http://crabfatmagazine.com/2015/11/moonshine-road/

The Bookshop (31/10/2015). In SpecFicNZ Shorts. New Zealand, Speculative Fiction NZ. (SpecFicNZ Shorts is a free e-book. Links to where it can be downloaded can be found here.)

The Pouākai (30/10/2015). In L. McNeur & L. Nunns (Eds.), Headland Issue 4. The Maisonette Trust. ISSN 2422-9016.

(Headland Issue 4 is available from Amazon. A link to the purchase page can be found here.

The Mysterious Mr Montague (2015). In A. Pillar (Ed.), Bloodlines (pp. 117-133). Australia, Ticonderoga Press.

Blue (22/06/2015), Micro Madness, National Flash Fiction Day NZ, https://nationalflash.wordpress.com/micro-madness/

Red Blood Cell Deficiency (23/04/2015). In Flash Frontier April 2015: Iron, http://flash-frontier.com/2015/04/23/april-2015-iron/

Water Baby (16/11/2014) Fiction on the Web UK, http://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2014/11/water-baby-by-jane-percival.html

The Tobacco Tin (01/06/2014), 2nd Prize, WWI Centenary Competition, Speculative Fiction NZ, http://specfic.nz/2014/06/01/world-war-i-centenary-competition-winners/

(also published on Fiction on the Web UK, on 13/01/2015, http://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2015/01/the-tobacco-tin-by-jane-percival.html)