Richell Prize Showcase

Mandy Beaumont’s debut novel The Furies was long-listed for the prestigious Stella Prize and shortlisted for the MUD Literary Prize and the Queensland Literary Awards. Her collection of short stories, Wild, Fearless Chests, was shortlisted for the Richell Prize and the Dorothy Hewett Award. Stories from the collection also won the MOTH International Short Story Prize and were shortlisted for other notable awards. She holds a PhD and a Masters in creative writing and is a regular feature writer and book reviewer for The Big Issue. Her new crime novel, The Thrill of It, will be out in 2025.

Brodie Lancaster is an essayist, author and critic. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Guardian, Pitchfork, Bon Appetit, Vogue and The Age, among others. She was the founding editor of the feminist film zine Filmme Fatales. Brodie co-hosts the weekly podcast See Also, and is the author of the 2017 memoir No Way! Okay, Fine.