Michelle Wright

Michelle Wright lives in Eltham, Victoria. Her short stories have won many awards in Australia, the US and UK including The Age and Alan Marshall Short Story Awards. Her short story collection, Fine, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and was published in 2016. Her novel, Small Acts of Defiance (Allen and Unwin) will be released in June 2021.

Articles by Michelle Wright:

13 May 202121 June 2021

Destroying myths: 50 years since The Sorrow and the Pity

Michelle Wright

It’s been 50 years since The Sorrow and the Pity first screened in a tiny cinema in Paris. Soon after its American release, film critic Roger Ebert described it as ‘one of the greatest documentaries ever made.’ When it was finally approved for broadcast on French television, in 1981, 10 years after its original ban, it was viewed by 20 million people – more than a third of the entire population of France.

Published in Overland Issue 217 Summer 2014

VU Short Story Prize joint runner-up: Late change

Michelle Wright

Walking back late afternoon, salt-crusted and heavy from her swim, Helen follows the high tide line along the cooling sand. Her eyes search the ridge of drying seaweed, empty plastic bottles, lengths of yellow fishing line, and half-rotten birds. If she sees a specially smooth, bleached piece of driftwood, she pauses to examine it, turns it over with her toes, maybe takes it home.