Episode 05 of Australian Shorts features Anne Casey-Hardy. Anne began writing after a long career as a librarian and advocate for families of premature babies. In 2018, she won the Peter Carey Short Story Award for her story, Being the Mother. Since then, her short stories and poetry have been published in Meanjin, Island, Overland, Westerly, Kill Your Darlings and several anthologies.

Anne’s short story collection Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls was published by Scribner/Simon & Schuster in September 2022 and was longlisted for the 2023 Indie Book Awards.

In this episode, Anne reads her story, Starving in the Land of Plenty.

Hear Anne discuss her views on the origins of status anxiety, laughing at your own funny lines and why she favours the first person POV.

This episode was recorded on the traditional lands of the Yuggera and Turrbal people in Meanjin, Brisbane and on the lands of the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation.