'A dream': out of print memoir shortlisted for 2019 Stella prize

Sydney writer Vicki Laveau-Harvie joins five others in the running for the $50,000 prize for Australian women’s writing

“It was like I suddenly had fairy godmothers.” That was how Sydney writer Vicki Laveau-Harvie felt when, in the space of a few days, her memoir went from being out of print to being longlisted for the Stella prize, represented by an agent, and picked up for reissue by a major publishing house.

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