Martha has won several awards for her fiction and creative writing, including the 2016 New Art Writing Contest by Artblog. Most recently, her short story "The Menagerie" was shortlisted for the 2025 Fish Flash Fiction Prize.
Creative Criticism
"On Creating the Conditions for (Creating) Criticism"
Creative Critical (creativecritical.net)
Edited by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson.
March 2025.
"The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"
SENT
Edited by Sophie Lanigan.
Digital: 2021.
Print: December, 2021.
Reviews
“How Recycling Ruined the World: a review of Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide”
It’s Freezing in LA!
12 October 2020.
"Stranger Fictions (at Rodney McMillian: The Black Show)"
The Noble Art of Writing
Edited by Mari Shaw.
Philadelphia: ArtBlog, 2019.
Republished from ArtBlog, 2016; The St Claire, 2017.
Winner of the New Art Writing Contest by ArtBlog (1000 words category), 2016.
“What I’m Reading”
Spike, the Meanjin Blog.
20 December 2017.
“Review of Abbas: Children of Abraham”
Arthur Ross Gallery.
8 February 2016.
Fiction
"False Idols and the Art of Love"
Ormond Papers XXXII
2015.
172 - 184.
"She Who Hesitates"
Ormond Papers XXXI
2014.
182 – 190.