Browsing Literary Prizes by subject "Henry Lawson Prize for Prose"
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Clytemnestra: a reimagining of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 'Leda and the Swan'
Published 2021My little sister is born a month early, in a rush of golden afterbirth and crushed feathers. I stand over the tiny body on the rug. Feathers plastered flat against her still chest. Stiff, pale wings curling around her ...Text -
Some sort of yellow, sometimes
Published 2023-05-05National Pickle Day Angelfish – I’m sitting on a bench in Camperdown Park, imagining you beside me. I pick the beetroot out of my kebab for you to eat. The juice drips on your jeans. It’s a warm evening. We’re overlooking ...Other -
Wobbegong
Published 2024-11-07Wobbegong - Girls stuffed their blouses up the back of their bras. They dunked their plaits into the bubblers and let water dribble down their necks. At recess they huddled in the arc of shade flung by the chapel steeple. ...Other