Ellen Wengert Ellen Wengert i(6559020 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Automate Me Ellen Wengert , 2020 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , January 2020;
'I didn’t exactly love my dead-end data entry job, but wasn’t thrilled to be losing it to a Robotic Process Automation either. That my successor was engineered by an old friend was bad enough – worst of all was having to teach the robot how to replace me.' (Introduction)
1 Best Laid Plans Ellen Wengert , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Griffith Review , February no. 67 2020; (p. 204-209)
1 Everyone Will Be There Ellen Wengert , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award Website 1998-;
1 By the Half Dozen Ellen Wengert , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Winter no. 104 2016; (p. 74-78)

'The year I turned eight, I made my own birthday cake. It was supposed to be a three-tier chocolate gateau with strawberries and cream, but my grandmother set the oven temperature too high and it all fell apart. The blurb in the recipe book described it as an 'elegant cake for very special occasions', with a difficulty rating of three cartoon chef hats. I tried to glue the broken pieces back together with icing, determined to replicate the elegance in the picture, but couldn't get the consistency right. Not enough water and then too much. I was still in the kitchen frantically pressing sliced strawberries into the dripping chocolate mess when my friends started arriving for the party. I could hear them with their parents in the living room being introduced to my newborn sister, my very special occasion having been hijacked five days earlier by Lydia's overdue arrival. Between the incessant crying and the nappy changes and the feeding at all hours, no-one had remembered to organise party games or bake a cake or put together lolly bags. I actually felt sorry for my friends, having to attend such a crap party. Instead of pass-the-parcel, we watched the lingering adults pass Lydia around. When that got boring, we pulled cherry tomatoes off a vine in the backyard and pelted them at each other.' (Publication abstract)

1 Tolerating Thy Neighbour Ellen Wengert , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: One Page : Brisbane , May vol. 1 no. 5 2014; (p. 4)
1 Red Seat Ellen Wengert , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: One Book Many Brisbanes : Sixth Anthology of Brisbane Stories 2011; (p. 158-167)
'The school year is almost over, and a particularly hot summer day is the catalyst for a year six girl who learns that sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.' (158)
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