17th International Conference on the Short Story in English

17 - 21 June, 2025

Writers - Surnames C

Rebekah Clarkson

Rebekah Clarkson’s 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 the Bath Flash Fiction Award. 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 is the author of Barking Dogs (Affirm Press), a critically acclaimed short story cycle set in Mount Barker, South Australia where the author lives. Rebekah has taught creative writing at several Australian Universities, the University of Texas at Austin and most recently as a guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Rebekah is a Board Member of the Society for the Study of the Short Story and works as a learning adviser at the University of South Australia.

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.


 

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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