I write short stories and longer fiction. My novella The Girls’ Room was published in Love & Desire: Four Modern Australian Novellas, and my short story collection manuscript Happy At Work was shortlisted for the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize. My work has appeared in The Best Australian Stories and The Age, and has been recognised by the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, Newcastle Short Story Award, Albury City Short Story Award, The Age Short Story Award, and the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize. I've received support from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Society of Authors, and the Varuna/HarperCollins Award for Manuscript Development. I have a Master of Arts in Creative Writing, have completed the Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel course, and have taught creative writing in community-based programs. 

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Recent Awards

Penguin Literary Prize, 2024 - Shortlisted
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2023 - Longlisted

Newcastle Short Story Award, 2023 - Shortlisted
Albury City Short Story Award, 2021 - Shortlisted
Albury City Short Story Award, 2020 - 3rd Prize

 

Recent Publications

Cigarettes and T-Shirts – Write Around The Murray, 2020
Impersonating an Artist – fourW thirty one, New Writing, 2020
Laundromat – Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology, 2020
Laundromat Café – fourW thirty, New Writing, 2019

 

Contact me at ellenrodger@outlook.com