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Andrea
McMahon

Andrea McMahon writes short stories for adults and children, poetry, and the occasional essay. Andrea's short story, Damselfly, won the Tasmanian Writers' Prize in 2020 and her work has appeared in the Forty South Short Story Anthology in 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2020. More of Andrea's writing can be found at andreaswriting.wordpress.com and in her short story collection, ‘Skin Hunger’, published by Ginninderra Press in 2008.


Andrea McMahon writes short stories for adults and children, poetry, and the occasional essay. Andrea's short story, Damselfly, won the Tasmanian Writers' Prize in 2020 and her work has appeared in the Forty South Short Story Anthology in 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2020. More of Andrea's writing can be found at andreaswriting.wordpress.com and in her short story collection, ‘Skin Hunger’, published by Ginninderra Press in 2008.


The Van Diemen Decameron

The midnight hour

by Andrea McMahon
24 Aug 2021

Lizzie pulls on her dressing gown as she stands shivering by her bedroom window, the full moon the neighbourhood’s only visitor this bitter winter’s evening. The nocturnal activity that has kept her awake for the past weeks has stopped. She saw...

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The Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2020: Damselfly

by Andrea McMahon
07 Dec 2020

Vincent is resting on one of the many park benches dotted along the canal, his gaze tracking the brilliant blue damselflies flitting in and out of the reeds. He has taken a sip from the single bottle of beer he has pulled from the sports bag by his...

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