[1] Another story, "Father Muerte & The Flesh", the third in his popular Father Muerte series, was awarded the inaugural Australian Shadows Award for outstanding literary achievement by the Australian Horror Writers Association in 2006.

[2] He won the award again in 2008 for "The Claws of Native Ghosts", a story which appeared in Graveside Tales' anthology "The Beast Within".

[3] Battersby was one of the tutors at Clarion South 2007, along with SF writers Robert Hood, Simon Brown, Margo Lanagan and Kelly Link; and editor Gardner Dozois.

[1] In 2007, he contributed a story to the Doctor Who short-story collection, Short Trips: Destination Prague.

In 2013, he contributed an essay to the Upcoming4.me charity non-fiction anthology, Story Behind the Book : Volume 1.