Hest's life is stagnating, until a levitating housemate arrives. Is Sam for real? A story by the talented writer Sophie Overett about the ups and downs of contemporary life for young women.
Fiction
‘Sea Legs’. Island Online (2022). Available to read here.
The Rabbits. Published by Penguin Random House (2021). Available to purchase here.
’Dive’. Signs of Life Anthology (2021). Available to purchase here.
‘The Sea Wife’. ACE Anthology (2020). Available to purchase here.
’Drift’. Spineless Wonders Slinkees Under 30s e-single (2020). Available to puchase here.
‘The Things We’ll Leave Behind’. Griffith Review (2020). Available to purchase here.
‘River Cities’. Griffith Review (2019). Available to purchase here.
‘Phosphorous’. Overland Online Edition (2018). Available to read here.
‘In Position’. Going Down Swinging #38. (2017). Available for purchase here.
‘Undertow’. Sleepers Almanac #10. (2015). Available for purchase here.
‘Christchurch’. The Suburban Review #6. (2015). Available for purchase here.
‘Landlines’. Visible Ink 26. (2014). Available for purchase here.
‘Down the Barrel’. Galavant #3 (2014). Available for purchase here.
‘Iconography’. Oblong Magazine (2014). Available to read here.
‘Rise’. Sleepers Almanac #9 (2014). Available for purchase here.
‘Cadence’. Regime #3 (2014). Available for purchase here.
‘Raise the Dead’. Tiny Owl Workshop’s Napkin Project (2014).
‘Russian Dolls’. Seizure Flashers (2013). Available to read here.
‘Paper Pilgrims’. Voiceworks #92 – Thing (2013). Available for purchase here.
‘Shooting Arrows’. Voiceworks #86 – V (2011) Available for purchase here.
Non-Fiction
‘Become a Wrap Star: Simple steps to special gifts’. Australia Post (2016). Available to read here.
‘Ten Shows That Deserve Gilmore Girls-style Revivals’. Junkee (2016). Available to read here.
‘Grief and Masculinity in You’re the Worst‘. Homer (2016). Available to read here. In 2015, I was a regular columnist at Pan Macmillan’s Momentum. Check out my posts here.
‘What I’m Reading: The House of the Spirits’. Meanjin blog (2014). Available to read here.
‘A Sunken Chest’. Voiceworks #96 (2014). Available for purchase here.
‘A Reunion’. Scum Mag (2013) Available to read here.
‘The Family Law Review’. WQ October 2012.In 2012, I was a fortnightly online columnist for LipMag, where I write about representations of women on television, like in The Newsroom or supernatural teen dramas. Check out the Small Screen Sirens tag over ta LipMag Online.
Fellowships, Residencies & Prizes
Winner of the Kathleen Mitchell Award (2021).
Accepted into Film Victoria Originate Program Stage 1 (2021).
The Rabbits. Winner of the Penguin Australia Literary Prize (2020).
Like a Moth Between Your Hands. Shortlisted for Seizure’s Viva la Novella (2019).
The Sea Wife. Winner of the AAWP Emerging Writer Prize (2018).
The Rabbits. Shortlisted for The Richell Prize (2016).
‘Dive’. Shortlisted for the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction (2016).
The School. Shortlisted for Writers Victoria Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship (2015).
‘After Hours.’ Shortlisted for the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction (2015).
Agatha Abel Meets Her Maker. Shortlisted for the Text Prize for YA Fiction (2015).
Accepted into Tin House Writers Workshop in Portland, Oregon (2015).
Awarded a Queensland Literary Awards Fellowship (2015).
‘Our Feet on the Dash’. Honourable mention at the Olga Masters Short Story Award (2014).
The Rabbits. Selected for Katharine Susannah Prichard Young Writer in Residence (2014).
The School. Shortlisted for Writers Victoria Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship (2014).
‘Landlines’. Shortlisted for the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction (2014).