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251 Winter 2023

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Mandy Beaumont

Mandy Beaumont teaches Creative Writing at Griffith University. Most recently Mandy was shortlisted for the Newcastle Short Story Award and won the MOTH International Short Story Award. She is a Fresh Ground Resident at the JWCOCA and a member of the advisory committee for Arts Queensland Literature Grants. mandybeaumont.com

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Published in Overland Issue 224.5 Spring fiction ·

The idea of women fiction issue

Mandy Beaumont and Craig Bolland

We asked for stories about, ‘Women as fantastic beasts. Women as projections. Women not as they actually are, but as they are imagined and fantasised about; as they are limited and defined by, or viewed through, ideas of femininity – from the empowered to the absurd’. We are deeply grateful to all whose imaginations were stimulated by this challenge.