Tom Flood

Tom Flood, sole administrator and assessor/editor at Flood Manuscripts, has been a writer, mentor, editor, copy editor and proofreader 1984-now and has experience in many areas of writing. Chief Fiction Judge NSW Premiers Awards 2003 (also judged 1993), judged NSW Premiers Writers Fellowship, Sydney University Fiction Award, Harper Collins Manuscript Award, Varuna, Short and Sweet Theatre Festival 2007.

Clients' awards & nominations: ARA Historical Novel Prize 2024 (nominated). Aurealis Awards 2023 (nominated). The Banjo (HarperCollins) Prize 2020.Puncher&Wattman Prize 2019 (runner up).Westwords/Copyright Agency Western Sydney Emerging Writers Fellowship 2019 (shortlisted).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 has helped self-published authors reach Top Ten on Amazon in their category.

Edited and proofread for McPhee Gribble and Penguin, launched books for Allen&Unwin, Angus&Robertson and others, has read, taught, lectured and spoken on creative writing from Perth to Paris.

As a writer, Tom 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, exhibited in National Museum of Australia. Oceana Fine 1989 republished 2023.

Songwriter, manager, musician: Central Coast roots band BluesAngels 2010-24: EP Best Be Blue2012. LP Devil Don't Believe2014, video Needle Never Caught 2018, limited edition EP Rough Halos 2019, singles Shy Moon, Needle Never Caught 2024, Blue Mtns folk/roots duo Hallett/Flood 2002-3, 2017-2024, alt-pop band Poles Apart 1980-84.

'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, 2007, Dalkey Archive.