Welcome!

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

Stories, poems and work in progress can also be found in my blogbooks: Collected Web Stories, Stories in French , Stories in German, Merc's Shorties (300 & 30-word stories), The Golfer's Cookbook, the novella, GUT, or How Pippa Sandberg Changed the World and Collected Poems.

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

Writing QuillNews!

  • As from June 2009, I'll be giving creative writing instruction in Vienna in small workshops as time permits. Email me for details.

  • 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. For a recent interview on Radio Ether, an expat radio in Vienna, just click on the loudspeaker at the end of this link.

  • The story collection, Back Burning, was published by IP, (Queensland, Australia).

  • 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.