Fiction
Aukati appears in Landfall 231. In 2015, this story won third prize at the NZSA Central Districts competition, judged by Dame Fiona Kidman who commented:
“An authentic rendering of the characters … it tackles issues that confront young people, like friendship, bullying, the power of belief systems, and loss. It is a brave story and I congratulate the writer for taking on these issues.”
The Homeless Men of Mahuika appears in Issue #4 of Headland: Literary Frontiers & Emerging Voices.
Fishing the Pungapunga won the 2014 Heartland short story competition. It appears in the December 2016 edition of Antipodes. The judge for the competition was William Taylor, local writing legend and internationally acclaimed author for young adults. Here are his comments on the story:
“An eminently satisfying story of a young boy going fishing with his mother . . . A sad little tale and no easy resolution is in sight. Millen is a fine story-teller.”
You can read Fishing the Pungapunga here and listen to a discussion about it on Radio New Zealand.
The Boy at Ohinetonga was highly commended in the 2014 NZSA Central Districts competition. Joan Rosier-Jones judged it as “more than competently written.” This was published in Issue 21 of Underground Writers: “Mythological Figures” (February 2018)
A Great Night appears in the September 2017 edition of The Cafe Reader.
My short memoir, The Burke Jersey, appears in the literary folk journal, Canadian Stories (April/May 2017)
Shiver is a short short story published on my blog.
Non-Fiction
From the North – an essay in takahē Magazine 93 (8 August 2018)
Far From Vanity: Six Profiles of Independent Aotearoa Authors – The Pantograph Punch (23 July 2018)
Review: Wolves in Dogs’ Clothing by Christodoulos Moisa at Crime Watch (23 February 2018)
How to Enter a Book? – A response to Aukati by Michalia Arathimos at The Pantograph Punch (28 November 2017)
Mysterious Metropolis – A review of City of Circles by Jess Richards on LandfallReview (1 August 2017)
We cross live to Taumarunui and search for signs of literature at The Spinoff (18 July 2017)
Have You Heard This One?: New Zealand Writers on Tension at The Pantograph Punch (11 May 2017)
Originally Sung: New Zealand Writers on Lyricism at The Pantograph Punch (11 April 2017)
Reasoning the Need in the Minimalism Life journal (5 April 2017)
Distinguishable by Ear: New Zealand Writers on Voice at The Pantograph Punch (8 March 2017)
Oh My Canada at Canadian Writers Abroad (7 February 2017)
The Monday Surrey Hotel Residency Report: Antony Millen takes the trunk line up from Taumarunui (The Spinoff, 26 September 2016)
Review of The Hour of the Grey Wolf by Christodoulos Moisa on Crime Watch (14 April 2016)
Two Tūrangawaewae at Headland: Literary Frontiers & Emerging Voices (14 February 2016)
Small Pause: The Sea & Me at Debbie Lamey-McDonald’s Small Pauses (8 July 2014)
Bruce Springsteen & Brother Shannon at Tracy Krauss’ Expression Express