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Rebecca Douglas

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Rebecca Douglas is an award-winning Adelaide-based writer of fiction, memoir, and feature articles.

Her crime fiction manuscript 'Welfare Queens' has been longlisted for the 2024 Richell Prize. In 2023, it was shortlisted for the Penguin Random House Write It Fellowship program and awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship for 2024. Her crime short story 'Needs Must' was shortlisted in the 2023 Scarlet Stiletto Awards.

In recent years, her stories have been highly commended, longlisted, and shortlisted by the Heroines Women's Writing Prize, Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition, Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition, Flash 500, and the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize.

Rebecca's work has featured in Overland journal, Verandah, Kill Your Da ...more

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	Tincture Journal Autumn 2016 (Tincture Journal, #13) by Daniel Young (Editor), Stuart Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rebecca Douglas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry for the Planet: An Anthology of Imagined Futures by Julia Kaylock (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Denise O'Hagan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rebecca Douglas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Verandah Literary and Art Journal (Verandah, #34) by Melina Bunting (Editor), Laura Clark (Editor), Jo French (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grieve Volume 8 by Hunter Writers Centre (Goodreads Author) (Compiler), Rebecca Douglas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Sue Pincham (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Futures by Lynette Washington (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emma Ashmere (Goodreads Author), Carmel Bird 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jigsaw Pieces: An Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology by F.J. Morris (Editor), Arlen Pettitt (Contributor), Anne Falkowski (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LISP Anthology 2023: Rising Stars & Promising Pens by Ozge Gozturk (editor), Jessica Andrews (foreword), Clare Reddaway 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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