Harbour Lights by Leslie Thiele won the Southwest Prize in the 2017 Margaret River Short Story Competition.
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Joiner Bay and Other Stories
Selected out of over 200 entries from the 2017 Margaret River Short Story Competition, Joiner Bay and Other Stories features seventeen beautifully written and distinct short stories from across Australia. This year’s winner, Laura Elvery has had work published in The Big Issue Fiction Edition, Kill Your Darlings, Award-Winning Australian Writing and Griffith Review. Her story, “Joiner Bay”, tells the tale of a schoolboy who runs to make sense of his best friend’s suicide.
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