Sean O'Leary Sean O'Leary i(A121456 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Sean O'Leary is a Melbourne writer. He has worked as a farm labourer in South Australia; as a cashier at a truck stop on the Nullarbor Plain; in a general store on Elcho Island-Galiwinku, an Indigenous Australian community in the Arafura Sea; and throughout Australia in the hospitality industry. His short stories, fiction, non-fiction, and interviews have been published in Australia and overseas. He has schizophrenia and supports Melbourne Football Club.

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Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • O'Leary's works have also been published in the now-defunct New Zealand literary magazine Bravado: 'Sanjay Dhoni' appeared in issue 17 and 'Slipping Away' in issue 16.

On the Web

Personal Awards

2024 shortlisted The Woollahra Digital Literary Award — Fiction for 'Coming Home' (published on the website of Close to the Bone Publishing).
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Awards for Works

Prince of the City 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: FourW New Writing Twenty-Seven , no. 27 2016; (p. 97-103)
2016 shortlisted The Booranga Prize — The Booranga Prize for Fiction
Nowhere 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: FourW New Writing Twenty-Six 2015; (p. 95-101)
2015 shortlisted The Booranga Prize — The Booranga Prize for Fiction
Going All the Way 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: New Writing , no. 24 2013; (p. 124-129)
2013 shortlisted The Booranga Prize — The Booranga Prize for Fiction
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