Laura Elvery

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Laura Elvery

PhD
NationalityAustralian
Education Centenary Heights State High School
Alma mater Queensland University of Technology [1]
GenreShort fiction
Years active2014 - present
Website
lauraelvery.com

Laura Elvery is an Australian author and winner of the Queensland Literary Awards' Steele Rudd Award for her short story collection Ordinary Matter. [2] [3]

Awards and honours

According to Thuy On for Sydney Review of Books, Ordinary Matter is inspired 'by the twenty times women have been awarded Nobel Prizes for science' and is a work which 'puts micro matter (plutonium, biomolecules, chromosomes, ribosomes, telomeres) into the bigger world of women’s lives as they go about their daily business striving for harmony between responsibility and ambition and carving out their own place in the world.' [4] Ordinary Matter was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards – Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance [5] and for the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award. [6]

In 2018, Elvery's first collection of short stories, Trick of the Light, was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards. [7] Her single short stories have won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, [8] the Margaret River Short Story Competition, [9] the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize [10] and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction. [11]

In 2022, University of Queensland Press announced that they had acquired world rights to Elvery's debut novel, Nightingale. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "A complex concoction: Thinking through the thingness of lollies in children's literature". Queensland University of Technology. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  2. ↑ "2021 Queensland Literary Awards Winners and Finalists". State Library Of Queensland. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  3. ↑ "Laura Elvery - Author". lauraelvery.com. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  4. ↑ "Catalytic Threads | Thuy On reviews Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  5. ↑ "2021 Queensland Literary Awards Winners and Finalists". State Library Of Queensland. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  6. ↑ "News - Australian Society of Authors (ASA)". www.asauthors.org. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  7. ↑ Mem: 10121400. "Queensland Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced | Books+Publishing" . Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  8. ↑ "Josephine Ulrick Prize winners". www.textjournal.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  9. ↑ "ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE SHORT STORY COMPETITION". The Small Press Network. 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  10. ↑ Austlit. "Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  11. ↑ "Fair Australia Prize | Fiction". Overland literary journal. 2019-12-04. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  12. ↑ Elvery, Laura (15 February 2022). "UQP acquires debut novel from prize-winning short-story writer Laura Elvery" . Retrieved 11 June 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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