While Marya was usually excellent at imagining the worst, opening a portal to another world while crocheting had never really crossed her mind.

An audio adaptation of Craft Your Own Adventure! Narrated by Louise Ratcliffe.

Craft Your Own Adventure (audiobook edition!)

This story draws a lot from my own experience as a kid, learning to crochet from my Memere (my grandmother). At the time of publication, she's 98 years old, and we still get together and talk shop about crochet.

Lucie finds herself in a battle for her immortal soul. The only way to win is if she out-crochets a devil, and somehow faces the demons inside herself.

Devil's Lace

When something goes wrong in the whimsical Cloud Store, Jamilla and an unlikely friend must save themselves from certain destruction. 🌩️

When something goes wrong in the whimsical Cloud Store, Jamilla and an unlikely friend must save themselves from certain destruction.

Cloud Cover

When Bell's latest job goes south, she must trek into dangerous territory to retrieve the parts she needs... or die trying.

The Mechanic

This came from genuine frustration and sorrow at my apartment complex bulldozing every tree on our block. From 16 different bird species visiting my quarantine window – to 6.

They Took the Trees

Craft Your Own Adventure

A winning entry from the Writing for a Change competition, organised by Channel Magazine, in partnership with the Irish Writers Centre and the National Botanic Gardens, which asked participants to respond to the issue of climate change.

It had taken two weeks to find the wall. She’d nearly missed it, paddling down the great, bloated river towards the sea, following the remaining birds. They would know where the last seeds grew.

Julie's Fiction

Short Fiction

Craft Your Own Adventure (audiobook edition!)

Cast of Wonders - 29/05/2024

Devil's Lace

Diabolical Plots - 15/02/2023

Cloud Cover

Paper Lanterns, Issue 10 - 30/11/2022

The Mechanic

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - 04/05/2022

They Took the Trees

Haunted Waters Press - 31/12/2021

Craft Your Own Adventure

Paper Lanterns, Issue 4 - 25/03/2021

Tended

Channel Magazine - 09/07/2020