Laura Elvery Laura Elvery i(A147416 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Confected Outrage What’s in a Snack Name? Laura Elvery , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 78 2022; (p. 170-180)
'IN 2016, I  ATT ENDED a children’s literature conference in Wrocław, Poland, to deliver a paper to an international audience. On the first day, I heard the voices of two other Australians – our accent, to my ears, coming through flat and obvious from the auditorium seats. My paper was about lollies in children’s fiction, so of course I had brought with me bags of lollies to share with my audience and, hopefully, make my talk more appealing. Having spent four years writing about lollies, I figured my confectionery choices needed to be popular and tasty and say something about my central thesis. I’d taken ages in a Brisbane supermarket aisle, finally settling on bags of Allen’s Pineapples, Allen’s Strawberries & Creams and Allen’s Chicos: small, brown, chocolate-flavoured jubes that are shaped like babies. I was very nervous about my presentation, but I had no idea that it was this mundane act of choosing confectionery I should have worried about the most.' (Introduction)
1 Hand Held Laura Elvery , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 165 2022; (p. 64-67)
1 Count Down the Little Things Laura Elvery , 2022 single work prose
— Appears in: Minds Went Walking : Paul Kelly’s Songs Reimagined 2022; (p. 119-134)
1 What I’m Reading Laura Elvery , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2020;
1 Eve Laura Elvery , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 160 2020; (p. 124) Island Online - 2021 2021;
1 Capricorn Highway Laura Elvery , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 8-14 August 2020;
1 8 y separately published work icon Ordinary Matter Laura Elvery , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 19629660 2020 selected work short story

'In 1895 Alfred Nobel rewrote his will and left his fortune made in dynamite and munitions to generations of thinkers. Since 1901 women have been honoured with Nobel Prizes for their scientific research twenty times, including Marie Curie twice.

'Spanning more than a century and ranging across the world, this inventive story collection is inspired by these women whose work has altered history and saved millions of lives. From a transformative visit to the Grand Canyon to a baby washing up on a Queensland beach, a climate protest during a Paris heatwave to Stockholm on the eve of the 1977 Nobel Prize ceremony, these stories interrogate the nature of inspiration and discovery, motherhood and sacrifice, illness and legacy. Sometimes the extraordinary pivots on the ordinary.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 The Town Turns Over Laura Elvery , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Griffith Review , April no. 68 2020; (p. 206-214)
1 Laura Elvery Laura Elvery , 2019 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Dear Dad 2019;
1 Fruit Flies Laura Elvery , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 236 2019;
1 Something Close to Gold Laura Elvery , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: New Australian Fiction 2019 2019; (p. 155-173)
1 The Garden Bridge Laura Elvery , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 235 2019; (p. 59-65)

'The promise of this new destination was now a bridge of a different sort, a tremendous light-filled opportunity. Less her father’s failed garden path connecting two halves of a divided city than an elegant suspension bridge spanning a before and an after – a slender piece of steel.' (Introduction) 

1 What I’m Reading Laura Elvery , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
1 Your Cart Is Empty Laura Elvery , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 233 2018; (p. 66-83)
1 Neighbourly Laura Elvery , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 77 no. 2 2018; (p. 183-187)

'Arlene followed Steve’s gaze. He couldn’t meet her eyes. He said, ‘First thing Monday,’ then he tightened his grip around the neck of the paper bag, something to eat in his office once the bell rang and all the students and teachers were in their classrooms. ' (Introduction)

1 Unspooling Laura Elvery , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 230 2018; (p. 34-37)

'This is the letter the government department has sent Joe, advising him that he could be deported. Here is the number of days until he might go: 28. A number as small and square and bureaucratic as the postage stamp on the envelope. Here is the lawyer’s website. This is the figure the lawyer quoted to help save him and it’s astronomical, eye-watering, but also doable. Essential.'  (Introduction)

1 Laura Elvery’s Trick of the Light Laura Elvery , 2018 extract short story (The Elements)
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , February 2018;
1 3 y separately published work icon Trick of the Light : Stories Laura Elvery , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2018 13412435 2018 selected work short story

'An art teacher sends four of her students on a guerrilla mission. A young runner struggles to make sense of his best friend’s death. A health-food company adopts a farcical promotional strategy. A factory worker spends her days applying radioactive paint to watches, while dreaming of a future with her new suitor.

'With a keen eye for detail and rich emotional insight, Laura Elvery reveals the fears and fantasies of everyday people searching for meaning. Ranging from tender poignancy to wry humour, Trick of the Light is the beguiling debut collection from one of Australia’s rising stars. '  (Publication summary)

1 What You Really Collect Is Always Yourself Laura Elvery , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 21 no. 1 2017;
1 Acrobat Laura Elvery , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Shibboleth & Other Stories : Margaret River Short Story Competiion 2016 2016;
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