Veny has published two collections of short stories and ten novels, three of which have been published internationally. In 2002 his novel The Volcano won Best Australian Fiction Book in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, and the same novel was shortlisted for the Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. His latest novel, Burning Down, was published in 2017. His short stories have been anthologised internationally, including publications in Barcelona, Hungary, Canada and Serbia. As well as writing for adults, Veny has three illustrated books for younger readers. Also a scriptwriter, Veny has worked with a number of production companies, including Tristram Miall Films (Strictly Ballroom, Children of the Revolution, Looking for Alibrandi) and Liberty Films (Fire, Medivac, The Day of the Roses, The Loves of Lionel's Life), on film adaptations of his novels.
Issues of aging, male sexuality and male violence.
Other Outputs: Jumping at the moon
Armanno, Venero (2022). Jumping at the moon. 2nd edn. ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Booktopia Publishing.
Other Outputs: The Crying Forest
Armanno, Venero (2020). The Crying Forest. Melbourne, Australia: IFWG Australia.
Other Outputs: I asked the angels for inspiration
Armanno, Venero (2015). I asked the angels for inspiration. Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 001 2015. Australia: Bareknuckle Books.
Goodbless and Godless: Two Linked Novels
(2005–2006) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
Godbless: A social and cultural history of 20th Century Moggill
(2004–2005) The Library Board of Queensland
Portraying Hong Kong identity beyond the limits of the literary label 'Asian-Australian'
Master Philosophy
The Jillaroo / Fact and Fiction, Blood and Ink: Family Stories as Historical Fiction
(2023) Master Philosophy
Fortune: Negotiating cross-cultural stories in a colonised world - creative approaches to ethical screenwriting.
Doctor Philosophy
I asked the angels for inspiration
Armanno, Venero (2015). I asked the angels for inspiration. Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 001 2015. Australia: Bareknuckle Books.
Armanno, Venero (2007). The Dirty Beat. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Armanno, Venero (2006). Candle life. Milsons Point, NSW, Australia: Random House Australia.
The very super adventures of Nic and Naomi
Armanno, Venero and Pignataro, Anna (2002). The very super adventures of Nic and Naomi. Melbourne: Lothian Press.
Armanno, Venero (2001). The Volcano. 1 ed. Australia: Random House Australia.
Armanno, Venero and Pearson, David (2000). The Ghost of Love Street. New York : London: Franklin Watts.
Armanno, Venero (1999). Firehead. Milson's Point, NSW, Australia: Random House Australia.
Armanno, Venero (1998). The ghost of Deadman's Beach. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Lothian Press.
Armanno, Venero (1996). Strange Rain. NSW: Vintage Australia.
Armanno, Venero (1995). My Beautiful Friend. NSW: Vintage Australia.
Armanno, Venero (1994). Romeo of the Underworld. Sydney: Picador.
Armanno, Venero (1993). The Lonely Hunter. Sydney: Picador.
Armanno, Venero (1992). Jumping at the moon. St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Armanno, Venero (2007). The Sleeping Stranger. One book many Brisbanes : second anthology of Brisbane stories. (pp. 1-9) Brisbane, QLD Australia: Brisbane City Council.
Armanno, Venero (2006). I Feel So Strong. Best Australian Stories 2006. (pp. 9-17) edited by Drewe, Robert. Melbourne, Australia: Black Inc..
Armanno, Venero (2003). The Boys' Hut. Acts of Dog. (pp. 165-190) edited by Adelaide, Debra. Milsons Point, New South Wales, Australia: Vintage Australia.
Polar opposites driven to seek their fortunes
Armanno, Venero (2012). Polar opposites driven to seek their fortunes. Weekend Australian
Review of THE MIDNIGHT PROMISE by Zane Lovitt Text Publishing, $29.99 pb, 283 pp, 9781921922930
Armanno, Venero (2012). Review of THE MIDNIGHT PROMISE by Zane Lovitt Text Publishing, $29.99 pb, 283 pp, 9781921922930. The Australian
A new meaning to saying it with flowers
Armanno, Venero (2011). A new meaning to saying it with flowers. Weekend Australian
Review of Mary Ann in Autumn By Armistead Maupin Doubleday
Armanno, Venero (2011). Review of Mary Ann in Autumn By Armistead Maupin Doubleday. The Australian
Armanno, Venero (2022). Jumping at the moon. 2nd edn. ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Booktopia Publishing.
Armanno, Venero (2020). The Crying Forest. Melbourne, Australia: IFWG Australia.
Armanno, Venero (2017). Burning down. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Armanno, Venero (2016). The Sleeping Stranger. Kill Your Darlings
Armanno, Venero (2016). Heat Treatment. Dreaming in the Dark. (pp. 215-231) edited by Jack Dann. Hornsea, United Kingdom: PS Publishing UK.
Travel under any star: collected stories
Armanno, Venero (2016). Travel under any star: collected stories. Brisbane, Australia: Bareknuckle Books.
I asked the angels for inspiration
Armanno, Venero (2015). I asked the angels for inspiration. Bareknuckle Poet Anthology 001 2015. Australia: Bareknuckle Books.
Armanno, Venero (2014). The currents. Melbourne, Australia: Review of Australian Fiction.
Armanno, Venero (2012). Moon: libretto. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The Australian Voices.
Armanno, Venero (2012). Black Mountain. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Armanno, Venero (2012). Sugarbaby. Review of Australian Fiction
Armanno, Venero (2012). dinner for a recent widower. Carmenta
Armanno, Venero (2009). Presidentsland [libretto]. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Music Festival.
Goodbless and Godless: Two Linked Novels
(2005–2006) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
Godbless: A social and cultural history of 20th Century Moggill
(2004–2005) The Library Board of Queensland
Portraying Hong Kong identity beyond the limits of the literary label 'Asian-Australian'
Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Fortune: Negotiating cross-cultural stories in a colonised world - creative approaches to ethical screenwriting.
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Story as research: unearthing truths about folklore, QAnon and community generated narratives through imaginative fiction
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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The Remake: Generation Loss Across Iterations of Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Radical language: narrativising obfuscation in contemporary fiction
Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Start with a Bang: The Critical Nature of Perilous Beginnings in Australian Crime Fiction Writing and Publishing.
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Narrative Techniques in Concept Albums
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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The Jillaroo / Fact and Fiction, Blood and Ink: Family Stories as Historical Fiction
(2023) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2022) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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The Visitor: Writing the Domestic Uncanny in 21st-Century Australian Literature
(2021) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2021) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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'Close to the Bones' (book 1 in the Cretin Park Chronicles), and critical essay 'Nature and Apocalypse in Young Adult Fiction: Promoting an Ecocentric Ethic'
(2020) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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From the Source: the Normative and Anormative in Australian Television Drama Series Production
(2020) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Green as the Sky is Blue - a Story of Translation
(2020) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Fem-punk Futures: Posthumanism, Gender, and Identity in Contemporary Women¿s Science Fiction
(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Girl Crazy: Domestic Noir and Feminist Criminology
(2019) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Watermarks: Science Fiction, Mitigation and the Mosaic Novel Structure in Australian Climate Fiction
(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Black Women Heroes and Speculative Fiction: Power, Identity and Representation
(2017) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Disenchantment: a novel for young adults, with a discussion of representations of Indigenous Australians and Native Americans in books for children and young adults
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Made in Suburbia: Intra-Suburban Narratives in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction.
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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`Dragonfly Monsoon' and Imagined Oceans: In Search of Poem-Maps of the Swahili Seas
(2015) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2014) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Invisible Women and the Credibility of Creative Nonfiction
(2013) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2013) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2013) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Under the Sint & Revolutionary Road and the Art of Pacing
(2013) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Fifteen Metres: a short novel and Writing Trauma: an essay
(2012) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2012) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2011) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2011) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2011) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2010) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2010) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2008) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2008) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Inheriting Italy: Homecoming and Conciliation Within Diasporic Travel Memoir
(2008) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2008) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2008) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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The Museum of the Self and Rewriting the Masculine: Exile, Return, Self-Knowledge
(2008) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
You should've been here yesterday: Tales from Surfing mythology
(2008) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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'THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET EXTREMELY HAPPY' and THERE'S A TRACK WINDING BACK: THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
(2007) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Saturn returns
(2007) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
The Other Country: A Father's Journey with Autism
(2007) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
CAST IRON AND MAKING FICTION
(2006) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
DONA STELLA AND HER RIVALS
(2006) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
THREE POINT TURN: THE SCREENPLAY THREE POINT TURN AND THE CRITICAL PAPER 'FIGURING DISPLACEMENT'
(2006) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
A SUITE OF SHORTS - DIARY OF AN EMERGING FILMMAKER
(2005) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
THE SAVAGE CLUB
(2005) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
KARMIC TRAFFIC
(2004) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
THE LAMBING FLAT - WRITING THE ORIENTAL OTHER: REPRESENTATION OF CHINESE CHARACTERS IN THREE MODERN AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
(2004) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
THE TRIP (PROSE FICTION)
(2004) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
METAPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS
(2003) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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The Girl with the Titanium Heart: The Effect of Bringing Magic Realism to Young Adult Trauma Fiction
(2023) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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The Wolf-King of Rome: Viewpoint as a tool for classical reception in children's historical fiction
(2014) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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A QUOTA OF HEARTBEATS: A NOVEL & THE INTERMINABLE SON: A RADIO DOCUMENTARY
(2007) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor