Andrea Gillum

Andrea Gillum is a Melbourne-based writer, fascinated by the interaction between music, memory and place. In 2018, her full-length manuscript was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize. In 2015, she won a Ned Kelly for her winning story in the KYD/S.D. Harvey Short Story Award. She has been published in literary and arts journals, and short story compilations.

More of their work

New Australian Fiction 2019: ‘A Trick of the Light’

New Australian Fiction 2019: ‘A Trick of the Light’

Andrea Gillum

The taxi sped along the off-ramp of the freeway. Out the window, Martin watched a blur of green and brown through a haze of weak sunlight. It could be dusk or dawn. They could be anywhere. Middle of bloody nowhere. How long did it take to get to the airport, anyway? Not that there was […]

Continue Reading More Fiction

New Australian Fiction 2019: ‘A Trick of the Light’

New Australian Fiction 2019: ‘A Trick of the Light’

Andrea Gillum

Short-Term People

Short-Term People

Andrea Gillum

I found the headstone in the third row. Moss grew up the side and over the top of the damp stone. The chiselled lettering was beginning to crumble, as if it had had enough of displaying my mother’s name, Cara Parker, to the world and was giving up in tiny chunks. I pulled at the […]

Continue Reading More Fiction

Short-Term People

Short-Term People

Andrea Gillum