Laurie Steed

Laurie Steed is a novelist and short story writer from Perth. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Age, Meanjin, Westerly, Island, and elsewhere. He won the 2012 Patricia Hackett Prize for Fiction and is the recipient of fellowships from The University of Iowa, The Baltic Writing Residency, The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, and Writers Victoria. His debut novel, You Belong Here was published in 2018 and was shortlisted for the 2018 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. His second book, Greater City Shadows, is the winner of the 2021 Henry Handel Richardson Flagship Fellowship for Short Story Writing from Varuna—The National Writers’ House.

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Published in Overland Issue 247 Winter 2022 · Fiction

Fiction | Breathing lessons

Laurie Steed

You get in early to the Department of Prosperity and Initiative, which you’ve been doing since the restructure of 2018. As government departments go, it’s nondescript. It works in the way that gumboots work. Not pretty but it does the job. You arrive at seven, card swipe, and in through the front, up the lifts, […]