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Life on the Edge

This essay looks at some of the themes from my PhD. It was published in the Summer 2019/20 issue of Meanjin.

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Mortal Sins

Mortal Sins was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and published in Best Australian Stories 2013.

“The most striking - in many ways the most successful - of these stories is the work of a writer unknown to me: Sinead Roarty. With a wry, sometimes macabre, but never heartless humour, Mortal Sins traces the relationship between Erin, an elderly lady who loves going to funerals, and her 50-year-old daughter, the nervously proud mother of a pair of in-vitro twins.”
Andrew Riemer, Sydney Morning Herald, December 21, 2013

“Another conspicuous aspect of this anthology is the scarcity of overtly humorous tales. Sinead Roarty's Mortal Sins and Eric Yoshiaki Dando's The Eulogy are the only truly comic offerings.”
Anne Parton, The Australian, December 28, 2013

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The Charm

The Charm won the Shoalhaven Literary Prize and is published in Melbourne Books’ Award Winning Australian Writing 2010 and Brand Literary Journal #7 in the UK (June 2011).