Liz Allan

Liz Allan is an Australian writer and teacher living and working in the UK. Her short story, ‘Our Voices, Fierce’ was awarded the Rachel Funari Prize for fiction in 2018 and her stories have been shortlisted for the Alan Marshall Short Story Award and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize, and longlisted for the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize. Her manuscript ‘The Elementals’ was shortlisted for the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize and her manuscript ‘Equilibrium’ was shortlisted for a 2019 Overland Writers Residency. Her fiction has appeared in Overland, Verge, Yen magazine, Aesthetica and Best Summer Stories 2018.

Liz’s debut novel, In Bloom, will be published by Sceptre (UK) and Simon & Schuster (US) in Spring 2026.

Photo courtesy of Matilda Hill-Jenkins