Tom Flood
Editor, Musician, and Writer in Central Coast, Australia
Tom Flood is the sole administrator and assessor/editor at Flood Manuscripts. He has been a writer, editor, copy editor and proofreader for many years and has experience in many areas of writing. He was Chief Fiction Judge for NSW Premiers Awards 2003 (and also judged in 1993) and has judged and been on selection panels for NSW Premiers Writers Fellowship, Sydney University Fiction Award, Harper Collins Manuscript Award, Varuna, A Writers House and the Short and Sweet Theatre Festival 2007.
Clients' awards: The Banjo (HarperCollins) Prize 2020. Puncher&Wattman Prize 2019 (runner up). Del Sol Press USA 1st Novel Competition, Affirm Press/Tablo 'The Perfect Crime' competition 2018. Ned Kelly Best First Book 2016 (shortlisted). ACT Book of the Year 2014 (shortlisted). William Saroyan International Prize for Literature 2012 (shortlisted). Nocte Awards: Best International Book 2011. Asher Literary Award (shortlisted), Manning Clark Cultural Award (shortlisted), 2011. Dundee International Book Prize (shortlisted). Maritime History Prize (shortlisted), 2009. Ditmar Award, Australian Shadows Award, Golden Aurealis, Best Horror Aurealis, 2007. ABC Fiction Award 2006, and he has helped self-published authors reach the Top Ten on Amazon in their category.
He has edited and proofread for McPhee Gribble and Penguin, launched books for Allen&Unwin, Angus&Robertson and many other publishers, and has read, taught, lectured and spoken on creative writing from Perth to Paris.
As a writer, Tom's work has won The Miles Franklin Award 1990, the Victorian Premiers Award 1990, the Australian/Vogel Award 1988 and the Orange Banjo Paterson Short Story Award 2001. His writing has been commissioned in collections, journals and newspapers in Australia, UK and USA, for screen, stage and radio, and is also exhibited in the National Museum of Australia. His award-winning novel 'Oceana Fine' 1989 (A&U) was republished in 2022 (Booktopia). He is also songwriter, manager and working musician in the roots band BluesAngels. EP 'Best Be Blue' 2012. LP 'Devil Don't Believe' 2014, video 'Needle Never Caught' 2018, limited edition EP ‘Rough Halos’ 2019. Folk roots duo Hallett/Flood 2017 wound up in 2023.
'Flood is bringing Australian fiction to a place where it might take ten or twenty years for most other writers to catch up.' Prof. Nicholas Birns in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXVII|Fall 2007, Dalkey Archive, University of Illinois, Ann Arbor, Ill.