Edwina Shaw

Edwina Shaw

Edwina Shaw is a Brisbane writer of fiction and memoir. Her first book, Thrill Seekers (Ransom UK), was released in 2012, and was shortlisted for the 2012 NSW Premier’s UTS/Glenda Adam’s Award for New Writing. Her stories have been published in Australian and international journals, including Griffith Review and Asia Literary Review, and in Best Australian Stories 2014 (Black Inc.).

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Do your practice and all is coming

GR OnlineI’VE NEVER BEEN the sporty type – built for comfort rather than speed, more shot-putter than marathon runner. I was the pudgy girl put in far outfield in a game of cricket, who somehow still managed to get hit...

Busted

FictionTHERE'S A BANGING on the front door. So early on a Monday? Don't they know I'm a student? I roll over and clamp the pillow to my head but the pounding doesn't stop. I rub the sleep from my...

The heaviness of keys

Memoir‘YOU N ME Miss, 2 gether, 4 eva.' Dylan is just finishing the chalk heart around this message when I walk into the classroom, books under my arm, keys jangling. He shouldn't be here at all – I'm supposed...

State of emergency: Brisbane 1982

Fiction'WHAT DO WE want?' ‘The right to march!'‘When do we want it?' ‘Now!' ‘Joh must go!'King George Square is crowded with hippies, punks, students, feral socialists and priests, all going red in the face. Yelling. About our rotten joke...

The raft

FictionSCHOOL WAS FINISHED for the year, and only two days into the holidays we had the makings of a raft. Tin drums rolled like thunder down the street as we chased after them. They sounded like giants laughing, so...

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