Nobel prize winners and the craft of short stories with Laura Elvery

Our guest this week is an award winning writer, she has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies, her work has been published in Overland, Griffith Review, The Big Issue fiction edition and more. She has won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, the Margaret River Short Story Competition, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction. Her first book was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards and her second book, Ordinary Matter was published on September 1st. Ordinary Matter is a short story collection inspired by the first 20 times women won a Nobel prize in the sciences. (We're giving you an update on the 2020 winners before the interview)Interview starts at 18 minutes.Caitlin recommendsEnola Holmes*Henry Cavill superfan Jack has a correction: Henry  lives on Jersey, not GurnseyMichelle recommendsBecause of You by Dawn French*Michelle received a copy of the audiobook from Penguin Books UKIn this interview, we chat aboutHow Laura came up with the concept for Ordinary Matter, a short story collection inspired by the 20 times women have won Nobel Prizes in the sciences, and the process of developing an idea for each storyThe writing process for the collection (and how a grant application sparked it all)The history of women and the Nobel Prize, including the great increase in female winners in the 21st CenturyLaura’s experience in Stockholm during the week of the prize announcementA small digression to discuss The Radium GirlsHow Laura knows when to stop researching and start writingLaura’s experience completing a PhD and how it made her the writer she is todayThe experience of publishing in 2020Books and other things mentionedLove of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth WoollettOnly the Animals by Ceridwen DoveyThe Radium Girls by Kate MooreThe Greatest ShowmanEllie Marney’s Every SeriesFollow Laura on Twitter @LauraElveryFollow us on Instagram @betterwordspodCaitlin and Michelle both received copies of Ordinary Matter from UQP Books. 

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