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248 Spring 2022

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Amanda Niehaus

Amanda Niehaus is a biologist and writer living in Brisbane. She weaves science into her essays, stories, and poems, which have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, AGNI, NOON Annual, Griffith Review, and Overland, among others. Her story ‘Breeding Season’ won the 2017 VU Short Story Prize. Her first novel, The Breeding Season, will be published by Allen & Unwin in September 2019.

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Published in Overland Issue 234.5: an autumn fiction edition with 16 editors!

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Zoë Meager, Hannah Macauley-Gierhart, Chloe Wilson, Caitlin Lawless, Amanda Niehaus, Linda Godfrey, Katelin Farnsworth, SJ Finn, Bronwyn Xavier, Trish Bolton, Kerrie McCure, Anna Spargo-Ryan, Jarryd Luke, Karen Whitelaw, Eloise Oxer and Oliver Driscoll

We need new voices and unconventional narratives to guard against rigidity. Plots that are distinct and lucid and sometimes boiling hot.

Published in Overland Issue 228 Spring 2017

Breeding season | First place, VU Short Story Prize

Amanda Niehaus

It’s pre-dawn, all dark. Breeding season. Elise wakes just before her alarm goes off, skin sharp in the cold air. She tugs the blankets back across her body, curls her knees in and lets herself – for a moment – think of Dan asleep at home in Brisbane, long limbs spidered into all the corners of their bed.