Multi-award-winning Queensland short story writer Laura Elvery and I caught up over Zoom to talk about her astonishing record of sweeping story prizes – as well as what it's like to write about women winning prizes of another kind.

In this episode we talk about several writing awards, some of which are now defunct. The ones you can still enter (depending on your location) are the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, the Nielma Sidney Short Story Prize, and the Kill Your Darlings New Australian Fiction Anthology.

Laura mentions her short stories Replica, Brushed Bright Bones, Trick of the Light and La Otra, which are all published in her collection Trick of the Light, and Frost and The Fix from the collection Ordinary Matter. She also recommends the deeply affecting short story Dreamers by Melissa Lucashenko, the virtuosic start and finish of Abigail Ulman’s Warm Ups, from the collection Hot Little Hands, and refers to Julie Koh, George Saunders and Tony Birch as sources of inspiration.

Read some of Laura’s short stories and find out where to buy her books at her website.