Writing & Awards
(NEVER)MIND THE GAP
A gap. A hole.
A lacuna, even.
The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed a big one, lurking on this very page.
Signs of early promise through the mid 2010’s. A small but growing body of published work. An ‘emerging writer’, almost emerged... maybe.
Then nothing.
A long lacuna… and yes, like any hole worth the name, mine holds a story.
But a story for another day, another month, another year. It’s all in the vault.
For now, I’m energised and deeply grateful to be writing fiction again, creating again, getting obsessed with it all again -
And to share some of my published writing here.
(Never)mind the Gap.
More to come.
CW
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SHORT STORIES
Award Winning Australian Writing - Anthology
2017
Selected for 2017 Edition
Sweeping
Judges’ comments:
”In [Carrier] we see the magic of short fiction, a life conjured into being in six or seven pages, and then ending, leaving the protagonist, and the reader, changed.
This magic trick, so difficult to pull off, was conjured up by Peter Carey in each of his short stories, and it is wonderful to see…the winner do the same.”
Judge: Ryan O’Neill
Peter Carey Short Story Prize WINNER
Carrier
2017
Published in Review of Australian Fiction
Volume 2 - Issue 4
The Story Wine Prize WINNER
Sweeping
Published in Overland
Issue 225
2016
Judges’ comments:
”In ‘Sweeping’, the winning story, we were drawn into and then deftly ejected from a fully formed world. An evocative, lyrical story, ‘Sweeping’ is a beautifully written commentary on the gravity of loss and notions of masculinity. Again and again, it’s the final line that’s a kick in the guts.”
Judges: Emily Bitto, Michelle Law and Melissa Manning
LONG STORIES
Residency Award
Publisher Introduction Program @ Varuna Writer’s House
Everywhere Then Gone
(novel manuscript)
2016
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