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Marlee Jane Ward is a writer from Melbourne, and author of speculative-fiction novellas (including Welcome to Orphancorp, winner of the Viva La Novella Prize and the Victorian Premier's Award for YA Fiction). She has also published short fiction in a range of Australian periodicals and anthologies, including Aurealis, and Kindred

Marlee is also the host and producer of the podcast Catastropod.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

Rats 2019 single work short story young adult
— Appears in: Kindred : 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories 2019; (p. 16-37)
2020 shortlisted Norma K. Hemming Award Short Form
2019 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Young Adult Division Short Story
y separately published work icon Prisoncorp Sydney : Seizure , 2019 15508788 2019 single work novel science fiction

'Mirii has been caught — along with the friends who were helping her find her partner, Vu.

'Being in prison is just like her revisiting her childhood in Orphancorp — only worse. Under the beating heat of a desert sun, the prisoners fight for food, water and a safe place to sleep.

'Our heroine begins to question her urge to fight back and rebel as all it seems to do is lead her and the people she cares for deeper into trouble.

'Fast-paced, gritty and original, Prisoncorp is the final instalment in the Welcome to Orphancorp trilogy. It confirms Marlee Jane Ward as one of Australia’s best YA authors.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2019 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Division Novella
The Rainmaker Goddess, Hallowed Shaz 2017 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Feminartsy , April 2017;
2017 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Fantasy Division Short Story
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