Writing

Carsten started coming up with stories as a child and he has hard-drives full of novels and short stories in various stages of completion. During the enforced lock-downs of Covid, instead of filling his home with the unique smell combinations of oil paints, painting mediums and whatever he had last cooked, he spent time on his writing. Older novels progressed; new novels were started; and the same went for short fiction and creative nonfiction. In 2021, Carsten began to submit his writing to magazines and websites.
Here are articles with links to pieces that can be read (or listened to) on-line.
When waiting for a midwife does not go as planned
05/06/2025
Short story "Baby or Blender" is published in Meniscus Literary Journal, my first publication in Australia ...moreTwo mysteries in one?
07/05/2025
'The Day I Probably Murdered the Dollar' creative non-fiction essay published in HeimatReview ...more
A date with a smile?
01/05/2025
'Polished' is published in Cosmic Daffodil's 10th anthology 'In the Company of Strangers' ...moreWhen is a mare more than a horse?
27/04/2025
Short story 'The Spring Mare, a Cold War Fable' is published by Thin Skin Magazine ...moreLove 'em or hate 'em? - two tales of relationships
31/03/2025
"Love Storm" and "Irregular Platypus" published by Coalitionworks ...moreThe Amazon rain-forest does not always deliver what you expect... or want...
16/12/2024
'The Nicotine Solution' - a piece of Creative Non-Fiction - is published ...moreWhat has he forgotten? How could he have forgotten...?
07/09/2024
Short story 'The How Of It' is curated by litfic site The Periwinkle Pelican ...moreWhen he meets his ex in a cafe....
15/06/2024
Short story 'When There's a Question You Cannot Ask Without Destroying Everything' selected and published in the #FlashFlood for 2024's National Flash Fiction Day ...moreA boy learns a life lesson...
16/05/2024
Short story "The Red Wheelbarrow" is published by American literary journal ...moreWhy is Albert taking a day off...?
29/04/2024
Flash fiction short Story 'Albert's Day Off' is published by the Coalition for Digital Narrative ...morePrize shortlisting
28/07/2023
Short story 'The Eyes of Golden Stefan' is shortlisted by The Masters Review for Anthology Volume XII ...moreA woman and her secret
06/07/2023
Stort Story 'Her Prime Conjecture' published on literary fiction website The Write Launch ...morePrize-shortlisting
16/03/2023
Short story 'Yoyo' is shortlisted for the 2022 Fish Publishing short story prize ...more'Drums and Smoke' on the radio
28/01/2023
Carsten reads and discussed short story 'Drums and Smoke' for Morley Radio as part of the LitWit Sessions ...moreWhat will a man do for musical success?
21/05/2022
"Blue Boy and the Flattened Third" prize-shortlisted and published by Jerry Jazz Magazine ...more