My name is Lee Cope. Welcome to my corner of the Internet.

I’m the grey matter with a face that runs the site and the business. My official title is ‘Creative Director’, but I also call my job ‘Purveyor of Fine Falsehoods’. I’m originally a writer (and still write many things) but I’m currently doing a PhD in urban play and ARG design. I love experimental and crossmedia stories.

You can find my self-published work in the Stories tab above. I have also been published in anthologies; ‘A Robot Like Me’ was published in Mother of Invention in 2018, and was nominated for the Aurealis Award for Best YA Short Story, and the Otherwise award that year. More recently, my story ‘The Ocean, the Lighthouse Keeper and the Sunset’, published in The Art of Being Human was nominated for the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella.

I am also an event manager and TTRPG convention organiser. I have worked with ARC, the Australian Roleplay Community, since 2020. I run Game Dunk, a small game jam focused on making TTRPG design as approachable as possible. In 2021 and 2022, I was responsible for MIGW At the Table, a Sunday event full of games, liveplays and panels.

I have presented my research at conventions, and have appeared on panels as a narrative designer.

I currently live on Wurundjeri land, in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.