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In a new home, a couple learn to live with ghosts, in Annie Zhang’s winning entry for the 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. The judges, Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop and Sara Saleh, have chosen a winner from the shortlist of eight announced earlier this month, along with two runners-up. The winning story, ‘Who Rattles the Night?’, will appear in Overland’s autumn issue.
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Overland has announced the winners of this year’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Annie Zhang has won the prize for her story ‘Who Rattles the Night?’, and two runners-up have been named: Madeleine Rebbechi for her story ‘A Map of Underneath’ and Sheila Ngoc Pham for her story ‘Whack a Mole’. Annie Zhang is a writer and editor living on unceded Wangal land. Her stories have been published in Island, Kill Your Darlings and the Western Sydney Emerging Writer Fellows anthology. She is a 2024 Malcolm Robertson Foundation Overland Neilma Sidney Scholar. The judges would like to thank the authors for their entries and their commitment to the integrity of the blind judging process.