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Laura Elvery

PhD
NationalityAustralian
EducationCentenary Heights State High School
Alma materQueensland University of Technology[1]
GenreShort fiction
Years active2014 - present
Website
lauraelvery.com

Laura Elvery is an Australian author and winner of the Queensland Literary Awards' Steele Rudd Award for her short story collection Ordinary Matter.[2][3]

Awards and honours

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According to Thuy On for Sydney Review of Books, Ordinary Matter is inspired 'by the twenty times women have been awarded Nobel Prizes for science' and is a work which 'puts micro matter (plutonium, biomolecules, chromosomes, ribosomes, telomeres) into the bigger world of women’s lives as they go about their daily business striving for harmony between responsibility and ambition and carving out their own place in the world.'[4] Ordinary Matter was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards – Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance[5] and for the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award.[6]

In 2018, Elvery's first collection of short stories, Trick of the Light, was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards.[7] Her single short stories have won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature,[8] the Margaret River Short Story Competition,[9] the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize[10] and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction.[11]

Elvery's debut novel, Nightingale - inspired by the life of Florence Nightingale - was published in 2025 by University of Queensland Press. In a Readings review, Ellie Dean writes that, 'Elvery’s transition to the longer novel format is faultlessly executed, but some of the fragmentation of the short story medium is retained in her luminous, exacting prose, giving it a deeply compelling, unique and almost kaleidoscopic tone.' [12]

References

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  1. ^ "A complex concoction: Thinking through the thingness of lollies in children's literature". Queensland University of Technology. Archived from the original on 2023-08-25. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  2. ^ "2021 Queensland Literary Awards Winners and Finalists". State Library Of Queensland. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  3. ^ "Laura Elvery - Author". lauraelvery.com. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  4. ^ "Catalytic Threads | Thuy On reviews Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  5. ^ "2021 Queensland Literary Awards Winners and Finalists". State Library Of Queensland. Archived from the original on 2023-05-30. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  6. ^ "News - Australian Society of Authors (ASA)". www.asauthors.org. Archived from the original on 2023-06-11. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  7. ^ Mem: 10121400. "Queensland Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced | Books+Publishing". Archived from the original on 2018-10-13. Retrieved 2023-06-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Josephine Ulrick Prize winners". www.textjournal.com.au. Archived from the original on 2021-03-11. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  9. ^ "ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE SHORT STORY COMPETITION". The Small Press Network. 2017-03-14. Archived from the original on 2023-06-11. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  10. ^ Austlit. "Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Archived from the original on 2023-06-11. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  11. ^ "Fair Australia Prize | Fiction". Overland literary journal. 2019-12-04. Archived from the original on 2023-06-11. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  12. ^ Dean, Ellie (25 April 2025). "Review: Nightingale by Laura Elvery". Readings. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
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