Short Writing by Fernanda Dahlstrom: Australian writer

Short Writing

Here are some of my new and favourite pieces.

Children’s Rights Theory

Children’s Rights Theory

Shortlisted for the Calibre Essay Prize 2026

Politicising the Playground

Politicising the Playground

Overland Literary Journal

I grew up with a mother behind bars. But her innocence wasn’t the only lie I was sold.

I grew up with a mother behind bars. But her innocence wasn’t the only lie I was sold.

The Guardian

Pipelined Into Prison: Young Indigenous women are particularly overrepresented in Australian prisons

Pipelined Into Prison: Young Indigenous women are particularly overrepresented in Australian prisons

Kill Your Darlings

Chapel

Chapel

Winner of Southern Cross TV Flash Fiction Award, 2015

The Contiguity of Totalisation

The Contiguity of Totalisation

Art Guide Australia

The Truth About Santa

The Truth About Santa

Shortlisted for Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Award, 2016

The Uncondemned: Fernanda Dahlstrom on Andy West

The Uncondemned: Fernanda Dahlstrom on Andy West

Sydney Review of Books

Begonias

Begonias

Beyond Queer Words

Fernanda Dahlstrom reviews Freedom, Only Freedom by Behrouz Boochani

Fernanda Dahlstrom reviews Freedom, Only Freedom by Behrouz Boochani

Mascara Literary Review

Fernanda Dahlstrom reviews One Hundred Days by Alice Pung

Fernanda Dahlstrom reviews One Hundred Days by Alice Pung

Mascara Literary Review

God Willing

God Willing

Winner of the Charles Darwin University Travel Short Story Award, 2016