Contributors
Andreas Å Andersson is a writer of fiction and poetry from Vetlanda, Sweden, currently living in Melbourne. His work has appeared in Rabbit Poetry Journal, Scum Magazine and the Emerging Writers’ Festival anthology, 9 Slices.
Gail Chrisfield works as a corporate writer and writes short fiction. She lives on Victoria’s south-west coast with her partner and their two furkids. Her voluntary roles as Write Here in Surf Coast Convenor and Writers Victoria’s inaugural Regional Ambassador enable her to meet and encourage other local writers.
Yvonne Edgren was born in Finland to a Swedish-speaking family and migrated to Australia when she was a child. She taught for some years in a small progressive school, and is currently enrolled in a doctorate at Western Sydney University’s Writing and Society Research Centre. She is working on a novel.
Laura Elvery is a writer from Brisbane. Her work has been published in The Big Issue Fiction Edition, Kill Your Darlings, Award Winning Australian Writing and Griffith Review. In 2016, Laura was shortlisted in the Queensland Literary Awards for an unpublished manuscript by an emerging writer.
Judyth Emanuel has short stories published in Overland Literary Magazine, Electric Literature Recommended Reading, Intrinsick, Fanzine, STORGY, One Page. Her stories are forthcoming in Literary Orphans, Quail Bell, Verity Lane, and PULP Literature. She is a finalist in The Raven Short Story Contest, semi-finalist for the Conium Review Flash Fiction Contest and shortlisted for the Margaret River Short Story Prize. Find Judyth online at www.judythemanuel.com or on twitter @judythewrite Else Fitzgerald is a Melbourne-based writer. Her work has appeared in various places including Visible Ink, Australian Book Review, The Suburban Review, Offset and Award Winning Australian Writing.
Charlotte Guest is a Western Australian writer and publishing officer at UWA Publishing. Her work has appeared in Griffith Review, Overland, Voiceworks, Australian Book Review, The West Australian, Westerly and elsewhere.
Keren Heenan has won a number of Australian short story awards, including the Alan Marshall, Southern Cross and Hal Porter awards, and she was placed second in the 2015 Fish Prize. She’s been published in Australian journals and anthologies, including Island, Overland, AWAW, and in Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual (UK) 2014 and Fish Anthology (IRE) 2015.
John Jenkins is a widely published and much-travelled former journalist who now lives on the rural outskirts of Melbourne and writes short fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry. He was anthologised in Knitting and Other Stories (MRP, 2013) and is presently putting the finishing touches on his tenth poetry collection.
Erin Courtney Kelly is a writer from Melbourne. She is a previous winner of the John Marsden Prize for Short Fiction, has been nominated for the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Prize and was published in Women of Letters (Penguin). She has been published in journals both nationally and internationally.
Marian Matta began concentrating on the short story format in 2006 after being inspired by Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain and relishing the creative freedom provided by online fan fiction. Grandmother, history tragic, Internet junkie and circus student, she lives in the hills outside Melbourne, and is pleased to call Heath Ledger her muse.
Sophie McClelland is a copy-editor from Wales who moved to Perth in 2012 after a decade in London where she attained an English degree at Kings College London and spent many happy years working for an independent publisher. She has two young children and ‘Dependence Day’ is her first short story.
Belinda McCormick is a Melbourne-based writer of contemporary short fiction. When not delving into the difficult emotional territory of broken things, she dabbles in the comedic world of her real-life adventure.
Jo Morrison lives in Fremantle, Western Australia. She began her writing career as a journalist before completing her creative writing PhD at Murdoch University, where she now works as a sessional tutor. Her writing has previously been published in Westerly and Celebrity Studies journal. Find Jo online at www.jodijo.com or on twitter @JodijoMo.
Emily Paull is a writer of short fiction and historical fiction. She has been a Young Writer-in-Residence at the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, was shortlisted for the 2015 John Marsden / Hachette Australia Prize, and was highly commended in the Hadow/Stuart award run by the Fellowship of Australian Writers, WA in 2016. Her work can be found in the [Re]sisters anthology and in Shibboleth and Other Stories, as well as on her blog— www.emilypaull.com Leslie Thiele loves reading books and writing stories. Sometimes she gets mixed up and scribbles ideas in the margins. Her short fiction has been commended and shortlisted in various competitions, sometimes they have even won! Leslie studies writing at Bunbury’s ECU campus and has learnt more there about a writers craft than she ever managed by herself.
Miriam Zolin’s fiction and non fiction have appeared in Griffith Review, a Sleepers Almanac, Australian Book Review, Canberra Times, Sydney Morning Herald and some other places. Her first novel was Tristessa & Lucido (UQP, 2003). She is working on the next one. Miriam lives in Mansfield in North East Victoria.
Other Margaret River Short Story Competition titles
Things that are found in trees & other stories
EDITED BY RICHARD ROSSITER
The stories in this collection ‘are insightful, sensitive stories, wide-ranging in their interests and, I believe, deeply rewarding. In all of them, there is “something new” for us to discover.’
– Richard Rossiter, Editor
Knitting & other stories
EDITED BY RICHARD ROSSITER
‘These 24 stories continue—as fine stories always do—to speak, to unsettle, to shine long after you’ve closed the book.’
– Amanda Curtin
Trouble with flying & other stories
EDITED BY RICHARD ROSSITER AND SUSAN MIDALIA
‘These stories, the best of the 2014 Margaret River Short Story Competition, are beautiful illuminations. They deal in moments of clarity, desperation, respite, decision and grace. They deal in many voices … This book is a delight to read. It’s strange and unexpected.’
– Fiona McFarlane, author of
The Night Guest and The High Places
Lost Boy & other stories
EDITED BY ESTELLE TANG
‘Behind every situation recounted in this collection there is a story of vulnerability, and a quest for grace. Some find it only to lose it again, but there is always great courage in their pursuit.’
– Sian Prior, author of Shy: a memoir
EDITED BY LAURIE STEED
‘The volume’s abundance means it is best read slowly or intermittently to savour each story’s intricacy and craft. Margaret River Press’ commitment to showcasing Australian writers deserves support. Editor Laurie Steed describes the “right” short stories as ones that “sear their mark upon one’s soul”. Repeatedly, this collection does that.’
– Joanne Shiells was formerly a retail book buyer and an editor of Books+Publishing.