cameronmurrayraynes

I write novels, film scripts, short stories and history. In 2009, I won the richest Australian award for short story, the Josephine Ulrick Literary Prize. My first short film, ‘The Colour of Kerosene’ (as writer and associate producer), was produced by Eleanor Kalantry, premiered at the St Kilda Film Festival and won Best Australian Film at the Barossa Film Festival in 2013. My most recent short film, ‘Waterproof' (as writer and co-producer), was selected for the CKF International Film Festival in early 2021.
My short stories have been published in Wet Ink, The Griffith Review, Sleepers Almanac and read on BBC4. In 2012, Wakefield Press published my collection of stories, The Colour of Kerosene. My first novel, First Person Shooter (MidnightSun Publishing 2016), explores the world of adolescent stuttering. A coming-of-age story about shame, love, fear and gaming, it was optioned by Factor30 Films in 2017 (which option has since lapsed) and shortlisted for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Literary Awards in the YA category.
I am currently working on a second novel, ‘What Just Happened?’, with the manuscript standing at 81,000 words.