[citation needed] His first novel Liadhen was shortlisted in the 1994 Angus and Robertson Bookworld First Novel Award,[1] and published by Wakefield Press in 1995.
A first-person narrative told by a young female, My Boyfriend's Father documents the break-up of a family owing to drug and alcohol abuse and was shortlisted in both the 1996 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the inaugural Kathleen Mitchell Award.
[3] In 1996 Winch also appeared at Adelaide Writers' Week and became the youngest ever recipient of a Fellowship for Literature from the Australia Council for the Arts.
[citation needed] In the winter of 1997 Winch moved to Tasmania to work on the multi-genre pulp triptych Vanishing Points, which emerged under a pseudonym via COQ & CO Books & Music in 2012.
In 2009 he moved to Manchester, England, where he formed the band Shadow History with ex-Icicle Works bassist Chris Layhe.