CONGRATULATIONS TO SHELLEY-BURNE-FIELD – A 2022 SHORT STORY FINALIST!

Shelley’s story ‘Speaking in tongues’  is about loss of language, about community, and about being seen and heard.

Shelley Burne-Field (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Rārua) is a fiction writer and graduate of both Te Papa Tupu and Master of Creative Writing at the University of Auckland. A finalist in the 2021 Voyager Media Awards, Shelley is a regular writer for E-Tangata. Her short fiction has appeared on Radio New Zealand, the Newsroom site and in various anthologies. Shelley Burne-Field is one of the 2022 recipients of the NZSA Mentorship Programme and working this year with writer Cassie Hart.

https://authory.com/ShelleyBurneField

• Judges hail ‘memorable and urgent stories that captured the concerns of their respective communities…. reflecting a complex and afflicted planet’
• Ambitious and wide-ranging variety of styles, storytelling traditions and themes – from family dramas, to explorations of love and loss, exploitation, betrayal and scandal, and the ‘hurts of history

Twenty-six outstanding stories have been shortlisted by an international judging panel for the world’s most global literature prize. The writers come from 20 countries across the Commonwealth including, for the first time, Papua New Guinea, eSwatini, and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The 26 shortlisted entries range from forbidden love to coming-of-age stories, tackling subjects from bereavement to climate change, and span genres from speculative and literary fiction to romance and crime.

PACIFIC

‘Slake’ by Sarah Walker (Australia)

‘The No Sex Thing’ by Eleanor Kirk (Australia)

‘The Nightwatch’ by Mary Rokonadravu (Fiji)

‘Speaking in tongues’ by Shelley Burne-Field (New Zealand)

‘Wonem Samting Kamap Long Mama?’ (‘What Happened to Ma?’) by Baka Bina, translated from Tok Pisin to English by the author (Papua New Guinea)   

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