Women in science in fiction with Laura Elvery
Science Write Now
English - September 16, 2021 00:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBArts science writing art communication editing publishing fiction nonfiction poetry teaching Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Jess chats with Laura Elvery about her new collection of short stories, 'Ordinary Matter,' which is inspired by the twenty women who have won the Nobel Prize for science. You can purchase 'Ordinary Matter' here: https://bit.ly/3FP983B
Laura Elvery is one of Australia’s most beloved short story writers. She has won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, the Margaret River Short Story Competition, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction, and has been published in Meanjin, Overland, The Saturday Paper, Island, Australian Financial Review, The Big Issue Fiction Edition and Griffith Review.
Cheat Sheet (texts mentioned)
Madame Curie: A Biography by Ève Curie
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres by Catherine Brady
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