User:Carly-Jay

Carly-Jay Metcalfe is an Australian writer, based In Brisbane, Queensland. She is a writer of literary fiction, including (as yet unfinished) novels, published short stories, very long short stories thinly disguised as novellas, memoir, poetry, biography and is completing a series of children's stories, which she is testing out on her nephews to great acclaim. She is one semester away from completing her (research) Masters in Creative Writing, but is on an extended leave of absence. She has been published in various anthologies, received a flattering review in the Sydney Morning Herald for her short story 'The Twelve Hands of Mother Lode' which was published in Wet Ink’s ‘Emerge’ anthology. A work of non-fiction will be published in the Vignette Press 'Death Mook' in February 2009. Carly-Jay has presented papers at writing conferences, performed her work and has been short-listed and runner-up for many literary competitions.