Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Laura Elizabeth Woollett is an author from Melbourne, Australia. In 2017, her short story collection The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. She has appeared at literary festivals nationally and internationally, and has been the recipient of several artist grants, residencies, and fellowships. Her latest novel is Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe, 2018).

Articles by Laura Elizabeth Woollett:

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

Hati-Hati

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

After, the silence is post-apocalyptic. I picture a world beyond human habitation, black canals, trash floes. I hear the downstairs door unlock, the hum of Ibu’s vacuum. It must be two already. I must be alive, after all, in a place of locks and electricity.