Shortlisted!

It’s always nice to be mentioned in dispatches, isn’t it? Here is the judge’s report for the Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award 2021 (run annually by the Fellowship of Australian Writers). My story, ‘Carpeted‘ made the top three!

Author: Alison Ferguson

Back in the 1970s, Alison Ferguson completed one of the first Bachelor of Arts degrees in Professional Writing and then went on to qualify as a speech pathologist, working as a clinician and academic for over thirty years. As well as writing research-based book chapters and papers for international refereed journals, Alison authored two scholarly books (published by Plural Publishing, and Palgrave Macmillan). Now retired, Alison is pursuing her long-standing fascination with story writing in both non-fiction and fiction.

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