AWARDS

2008 Australian Shadows Award, The Claws of Native Ghosts
2005 Australian Shadows Award, Father Muerte & The Flesh
2005 Aurealis Award, Best Horror Short Story, Pater Familias
2003 Australian SF 'Ditmar' Award, Best New Talent

2008 Aurealis Award nomination, Best Horror Short Story, In From The Snow
2006 Aurealis Award nomination, Best SF Short Story, Dark Ages
2006 Aurealis Award nomination, Best fantasy Short Story, Dark Ages
2006 Australian Shadows Award nomination, Father Renoir's Hands
2005 Australian Shadows Award nomination, Pater Familias
2004 Aurealis Award nomination, Best Fantasy Short Story, Tales of Nireym
2001 Writers of The Future, 3rd place, 2nd quarter, Carrying The God


COLLECTIONS

Through Soft Air, Prime Books, April 2006

Includes previously unpublished stories:

Elyse
Jaracara's Kiss
Mikal
Stalag Hollywood
His Calliope
Father Renoir's Hands
Dark Ages


UPCOMING

Smuggler's Moon, New Ceres Nights, April 2009


SHORT STORIES

The Claws of Native Ghosts, The Beast Within, Graveside Tales, October 2008

Amygdala, My Love, ASIM 37, October 2008

The Metawhore's Love Story, Canterbury 2100, Agog Press, October 2008

Rabbit, Run, Scary Food, Agog Press, October 2008

Alchymical Romance, Remix My Lit, July 2008

In From The Snow, Dreaming Again, Harper Collins, June 2008

Messages, Black Box, Brimstone Press, June 2008

Truthful Remains, Black Box, Brimstone Press, June 2008

Never Grow Old, Aurealis 40, April 2008

You Pretty Thing, Sci-Phi Journal, January 2008

Beached, Daikaiju III- Giant Monsters Vs The World, Agog Press, October 2007

Father Muerte & The Flesh, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 20, September 2007

Father Muerte & The Flesh, Australian SF&F Volume 3, MirrorDanse Press, July 2007

Father Muerte & The Joy of Warfare, Aurealis 37, March 2007

Pater Familias, Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006, Brimstone Press, October 2006

Pater Familias, Book of Shadows, Brimstone Press, October 2006

Fade, Ticonderoga Online 8, June 2006

The Time Eater, Dr Who- Destination Prague, Big Finish Productions, April 2006

Instinct, ASIM 23, March 2006 (with Nigel Read)

Blake The God, ASIM 22, January 2006

And Just Like That, Antipodean SF 92, January 2006

The Imprisonment of Marianne, Borderlands 6, January 2006

Father Muerte & The Flesh, Aurealis 36, December 2005

Decimated, Shadowed Realms 8, November 2005

Goodfellow, Znak Sagite 15, October 2005

Gunslinger, The Devil in Brisbane, Prime Books, September 2005

I Can Make You Famous, Shadow Box, Brimstone Press, June 2005

Murderworld, ASIM 18, April 2005

Love Me Electric, Consensual a Trois, April 2005

Pater Familias, Shadowed Realms 3, January 2005

Through the Window Merrilee Dances, ASIM 16, December 2004

Father Muerte & the Rain, Aurealis 33/34/35, December 2004

Father Muerte & The Theft, Tales of The Unanticipated 25, August 2004

Pass The Parcel, Word Thirst 2, July 2004

Tales of Nireym, Orb 6, June 2004

Vortle, Encounters, CSFG Publishing, June 2004

The Habit of Dying, Peridot Books 24, June 2004

Silk, All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, Wheatland Press, April 2004

Little Sequels, Antipodean SF 66, March 2004

Ecdysis, ASIM 11, February 2004

Letters To Josie, Borderlands 3, January 2004

The Hobbyist, ASIM 10, December 2003

Little Sequels, No Award 4, August 2003

A Stone To Mark My Passing, Elsewhere, CSFG Publishing, July 2003

When I Came Back, Potato Monkey 3, June 2003

Your Mother Loves Monkeys, ASIM 6, April 2003

The Great Detective, Fables & Reflections 4, April 2003

Through Soft Air, Borderlands 1, April 2003

Guitar Wishes, No Award 2, April 2003

Corner God, Antipodean SF 59, April 2003

Making Two Fists, Agog Terrific Tales, Agog Press, April 2003

A Very Good Lawyer, Glimpses, April 2003

Moment, Consensual- The Second Coming, April 2003

Though I Be Stone, Whispers From The Shattered Forum 11, September 2002

Carrying The God, Writers of the Future Vol 18, Galaxy Press, August 2002

The Divergence Tree, Orb 3/4, June 2002

Brillig, EOTU, June 2002

Father Muerte & The Theft, Aurealis 29, April 2002

Pass The Parcel, Australian Woman's Day, November 2001

A Star Is Born, Borderlands- The World Within Convention Booklet, November 2001

The Habit of Dying, Alien Q, August 2001


POETRY

Working For a Greener Narrative, ASIM 36, August 2008

I’ll Keep a Green Lantern Burning, Strange Horizons, February 2008

Eight For Working, ASIM 16, December 2004

Stress Relief: A Modern Recipe, The Ticonderoga Cookbook, April 2004

Three Times The Monster, Empowa 2, October 2001

Love: Instructions, Naked Eye, November 1991

father figure, Naked Eye, November 1990

Speed, Naked Eye, November 1989



NON-FICTION & INTERVIEWS

Pater Horrere Familas: interview by Ben Szumskyj- Studies in Australian Weird Fiction 1, March 2008

2007 Asif Snapshot, interview by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Australian Specfic in Focus, June 2007

Kids Dish, interview with Lyn on subject of coping with a large family, December 2006

Focus on Lee Battersby- Forum, Australian Specfic in Focus, June 2006

Industry Advice- How To Get Published, article, Australian Horror Writer's Association website, June 2006

Welcome to the Carnival, an interview with Martin Livings by Lee & Lyn Battersby, March 2006

Interview- Horrorscope, December 2005

2005 Snapshot, interview by Ben Peek, Tabula Rasa, June 2005

Lee & Lyn Battersby, interview by Martin Livings, ASIM 19, June 2005

SF & The Single Parent, article, Gynaezine 2, April 2004 (With Lyn Battersby)

Interview- with Claire McKenna, Fables & Reflections 3, September 2002


WORKSHOPS & COMPETITIONS

Mentor, Australian Horror Writer's Association, April - June 2009

Judge, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre SF/F Awards, 2008

Mentor, Australian Horror Writer's Association, March - June 2008

Writing The Weird, Write-a-rama workshop for youth, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre, January 2008

Mentor, Australian Horror Writer's Association, July - September 2007

Tutor, Clarion South, January 2007

The Art of Critiquing, workshop, Queensland Writer's Centre, January 2007

The Proper Care & Feeding of Your Genre- Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction, Queensland Writer's Centre, January 2007

Critiquing, Workshop, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer's Centre, April 2006

Judge, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre SF/F Awards, 2005

Emerging Writer in Residence, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre, September 2004