Else Fitzgerald Else Fitzgerald i(9186300 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Else Fitzgerald is a Melbourne-based writer. In 2017, she was a WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange Program) Emerging Writer Fellow, participating in residencies in the Philippines and Melbourne. 

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 shortlisted Nillumbik Genre Award — Open Section — Creative non-fiction for 'Dust and Ash: on writing the end of the world'.
2019 winner The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for 'Nearly Curtains'.
2017 shortlisted The Fair Australia Prize — Fiction Prize For 'Felidae'.
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Everything Feels like the End of the World Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2022 24669710 2022 selected work short story science fiction fantasy

'Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring possible futures from an Australia not so different from our present day to one thousands of years into an unrecognisable future.

'At the heart of each story is the anchor of what it means to be human: grief, loss, pain and love. A young woman is faced with a terrible choice about her pregnancy in a community ravaged by doubt. An engineer working on a solar shield protecting the Earth shares memories of their lover with an AI companion. Two archivists must decide what is worth saving when the world is flooded by rising sea levels. In a heavily policed state that preferences the human and punishes the different, a mother gives herself up to save her transgenic child.

'These transformative stories are both epic and granular, and forever astonishing in their imaginative detail, sense of revelation and emotional connection. They herald the arrival of a stunning new voice.'  (Publication summary)
2023 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award
2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Best Collection
Sheen 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Joiner Bay & Other Stories 2017; 'The world is dead. Everyone who has come before you has died. You are the last, the last thing that moves.' Humans have left the dying Earth behind and all that is left is their creations who are left to fend for themselves until the sun dies.
2017 second place Margaret River Short Story Writing Competition
Onder 2016 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , October 2016; Rotterdam has sunk to the bottom of the ocean and is filled with scavengers and water gypsies. A woman takes a drone into the ruins ‘to see this city for herself, where her ancestors once lived. The street lamps, bridge rails, rusted bicycle frames: the old world, drowned.’
2018 shortlisted The Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers
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