A Fear of Not Flying

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.16.2.2017.3610

Keywords:

literature, story, being woman

Abstract

A short story: "Lately I’ve discovered that I can’t always fly when I want to, but what scares me most is that I can’t always fly when I need to either."

Author Biography

Laura Kenny, Queensland University of Technology

Laura Kenny is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Queensland University of Technology. Her poetry was highly commended in the 2017 Adrien Abbott Prize, and has been published in Right Now, Pressure Gauge Journal, and Hecate. She was shortlisted for the 2016 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, and her short fiction has been published in the Review of Australian Fiction and TEXT's special issue on 'Writing Trauma'. Laura's practice-led research, for which she is writing a novel, looks at representations of childhood trauma in contemporary Australian realist fiction with a focus on how childhood trauma affects a character's relationship with place and home. She was awarded a 2017 Varuna Residential Fellowship to work on her collection of autobiographical poetry, Passages, and is also working on a memoir disguised as a collection of personal essays.

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Published

2017-12-15

How to Cite

Kenny, L. (2017). A Fear of Not Flying. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.16.2.2017.3610