Else Fitzgerald’s collection of short speculative fiction, Everything Feels Like the End of the World, was published by Allen & Unwin in August 2022. The collection was shortlisted for the 2022 Aurealis Awards and the 2023 University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award.
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Else Fitzgerald
Speculate
How does fiction reflect and predict on the page, and what does it mean to speculate through literature? This discussion will dive deep into the world/s of speculative fiction, before making a very exciting announcement sure to delight emerging short fiction writers Australia wide.
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