About

Arcanum is the alias of Kate Murdoch, a Melbourne writer and artist. Kate exhibited widely as a painter before turning her hand to writing. In between writing historical fiction, she enjoys writing short stories and flash fiction.

Kate studied Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University, and has completed short courses in creative writing at RMIT.

Her debut novel Stone Circle will be published by Fireship Press in 2017.

She has also written The Orange Grove, a novel about the passions and intrigues of court mistresses in eighteenth-century France.

Her flash fiction story ‘Justice is Served’ was published in Flash Fiction Magazine in September 2015.

Her short story ‘The Manifestations of Janek Gorski’ was published in Eunoia Review in October 2015.

Her flash fiction story ‘The Tree and the Sky’ was published in The Flash Fiction Press in November 2015.

Her flash fiction story ‘Lucky Day’ was published in Flash Fiction Magazine in February 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘Neonatal’ was published in Spelk Fiction in April 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘The Last Journey’ was published in Sick Lit Magazine in April 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘Crossover’ was published in Ink In Thirds magazine in June 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘The Darkness Game’ was published in Sick Lit Magazine in June 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘The Memory Tree’ was published in Visible Ink  in June 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘The Shrine Room’ was published in Firefly Magazine in November 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘Joachim and the Vortex’ was published in Twisted Sister Lit Mag in November 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘The Duke of Dunstall’ was published in Twisted Sister Lit Mag in November 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘Unborn’ was published in Feminine Collective in December 2016.

Her flash fiction story ‘The Chess Game’ was published in Nasty Women Everywhere in January 2017.

Her flash fiction story ‘The Letters’ was published in The Fiction Pool in January 2017.

Her flash fiction story ‘Perception’ was published in Sick Lit Magazine in February 2017.

Her flash fiction story ‘Double Vision’ is forthcoming in Twisted Sister Lit Mag.

Her short story ‘The Dunes’ was published in Verity La in August 2017.

Her stories ‘Reptilian’ and ‘Howard’s Mission’ were included in ‘Paws and Claws’ anthology by Cake & Quill Collective. Released in April 2017.

She is represented by Sarah McKenzie at Hindsight Literary Agency.

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