17th International Conference on the Short Story in English

17 - 21 June, 2025

Writers - Surnames C

Ying-Tai Chang

Chang Ying-Tai（張瀛太) is an award-winning Taiwanese novelist and short story writer. She earned her PhD in Literature from National Taiwan University and holds the position of Distinguished Professor at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei.

Over the past decades, she has been the recipient of numerous major awards, including the China Times First Prize for Fiction and Prose; the United Daily Press First Prize for Fiction; the Central Daily News First Prize for Fiction; the Taiwan International Book Fair's Book of the Year Prize；the Award for Literary Writing from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education; and the Lennox Robinson Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts. She has also been a finalist for the Two-Million-Yuan Award for Fiction, one of the largest monetary prizes in Asian literature.

Chang Ying-Tai has authored three short story collections, and four novels, two of which – The Bear Whispers To Me and As Flowers Bloom and Wither – have been published as English translations by Balestier Press (UK) to considerable acclaim.


 

Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey is a multiple award-winner whose novels have achieved international acclaim. Her debut, In a Fishbone Church, won Best First Book at both the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South-East Asia and South Pacific region). It also won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Golden Deeds, was a Notable Book of the Year in the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book in the LA Times. The Axeman’s Carnival and Pet were number one bestsellers for many months. Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Axeman’s Carnival and The Wish Child both won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction – New Zealand’s most prestigious literary award. Other honours include the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Nielsen Independent New Zealand Bestseller award. Catherine lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato and is the organiser of the Sargeson Prize, one of New Zealand’s most prestigious short story awards. Her new novel, The Book of Guilt, is due out in 2025.


Sydney Alice Clark

Sydney Alice Clark is a fiction writer. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, she lives in Paris. Awarded a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Sorbonne, she is an Associate Professor. Her short stories have appeared in both French and American journals: Journal of the Short Story in English, University of Angers; and Short Story, University of Texas at Brownsville, as well as anthologies Bridges: a Global Anthology of Short Stories, Temenos Publishing. Her poems have been published in French and English: Imaginaires, University of Nantes Press. Her short story manuscript collection, A Darker Shade of Light, was awarded first prize (Prix Manuscrit Technikart) at the Paris Book Fair (March 2011). She is a member of the Jury for English Short Story Fiction in Angers and teaches creative writing. Her work on Shakespeare and French theatre (William Shakespeare et Gérard de Nerval : le théatre romantique en crise : 1830-184, Paris: Harmattan, 2005) was short-listed for a research prize by Higher Education Associations: the SAES (Anglo-Saxon scholars) and the AFEA (American scholars) in France. Her literary criticism on short stories and theatre has been published in French and American reviews. She has also co-authored a book on the Anglo-Saxon short story (La nouvelle anglo-saxonne, une étude psychanalytique, Paris: Hachette). 

Rebekah Clarkson

Rebekah Clarkson is the author of Barking Dogs (Affirm Press), a short story cycle set in Mount Barker, South Australia where the author lives. Her stories have been recognised in major awards in Australia and overseas, including the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, Fish Publishing Short Story Prize and Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open. Her short stories have appeared in publications including Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories and Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women (Black Inc.). She has a BA in Aboriginal Studies and an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, where she works as the Coordinator of Writing Support Programs. She has taught fiction writing at a number of Australian Universities and at the University of Texas at Austin. Rebekah is a Board Member of the Society for the Study of the Short Story.



 

Evelyn Conlon

Evelyn Conlon short story writer, novelist and essayist is widely translated, most recently into Tamil, Chinese and Greek. She is the editor/co-editor of four anthologies including Cutting the Night in Two and Later On.  She has been writer-in-residence in many places at home and internationally, and is Adjunct Professor with Carlow University, Pittsburgh, MFA.  Her last short story collection, Moving About the Place, 2021, was followed by Reading Rites: Books, writing and other things that matter, 2023, a collection of essays on the life. Telling Truths, a collection on her work, was edited by Teresa Caneda-Cabrera, published by Peter Lang, 2023.

More details on www.evelynconlon.com


Shady Cosgrove

Shady Cosgrove writes on Dharawal Country and teaches creative writing at the University of Wollongong. Her books include Flight (Gazebo Books), What the Ground Can't Hold (Picador) and She Played Elvis (Allen and Unwin). Her short works have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, Dreaming Awake, The Writing Mind, Cordite, Overland, Antipodes, Southerly, Island, takahe, Eunoia Review and various Spineless Wonders collections. She has judged the Joanne Burns Award and received an ANU Humanities Research Centre Fellowship, a Bundanon Artists Residency, the Varuna House Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship and a Nan Tien Temple and South Coast Writers Centre residency.





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