Welcome!

I'm Sylvia Petter. I'm an Australian in Austria and I write fiction, essays and poems.

All the links on my pages are to people and places with which I have a personal writing connection.

Feel free to browse. If this isn't your first time, you might have to refresh.

Happy reading and writing!

Artwork by Sharon Ratheiser © 2002

News!

• Visit my blog at Merc's World for my Blogbooks and ruminations, and my latest news. Another part of Merc's World is at MySpace

• The story collection, Back Burning, is published by Interactive Publications (IP) (Queensland, Australia).

• The story, "Just Lunch" has been published in Offshoots 9.

• The story, Heatwave, appears in a German translation by Eberhard Hain in the March 2007 issue of the Austrian literary magazine, Etcetera.

• The contribution, Mercury Blobs, appears in Writers on Writing: The Art of the Short Story.

• See Francafonia for Un ami imaginaire, the French version of An Imaginary Friend. The original story appears in my collection, THE PAST PRESENT, and was translated into French by Geneviève Hébert.