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Hamilton Reads 2024
Winner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging Writers
Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre on women of colour and explore queerness, family and community.
A couple in a crumbling marriage faces divine intervention. A woman dies in her dreams again and again until she finds salvation in an unexpected source. A teenage misfit discovers a darkness lurking just beyond the borders of her suburban home. The stories in Chrysalis, Anuja Varghese’s debut collection, are poignant and chilling, blurring the lines between the monstrous and the mundane. – House of Anansi Press
Anuja Varghese is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Hobart, the Malahat Review, the Fiddlehead, Plenitude Magazine and others. She lives in Hamilton. Chrysalis is her first book
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