Laura Elizabeth Woollett
About the author

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Laura Elizabeth Woollett was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. In 2012, she completed an honours degree in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. In 2014, she was awarded a Wheeler Centre/Readings Foundation Hot Desk Fellowship and the John Marsden/Hachette Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as one of the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival’s ‘30 Under 30’. Her short-story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), was shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and the 2017 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction.

Books by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Laura Elizabeth Woollett Articles

Original and Heartbreaking: Read an Extract from The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Review | Extract

12 July 2021

Original and Heartbreaking: Read an Extract from The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

    A Subversive and Standout Thriller: Read our Review of The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

    Review | Our Review

    12 July 2021

    A Subversive and Standout Thriller: Read our Review of The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

      Dark Descent: Read an extract from Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

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      7 August 2018

      Dark Descent: Read an extract from Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

        Under His Spell: Q&A with Laura Elizabeth Woollett on her novel Beautiful Revolutionary

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        7 August 2018

        Under His Spell: Q&A with Laura Elizabeth Woollett on her novel Beautiful Revolutionary

          Jonestown Re-Visited: Review of Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

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          7 August 2018

          Jonestown Re-Visited: Review of Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett