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Gender: Non-binary
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BiographyHistory

Alison Evans has been co-editor of Concrete Queers, a maker of zines and a lover of bad movies. Their work has been published in various Australian and international magazines, literary journals, and zines. Their first novel, Ida, won the People's Choice Award at the Victorian Premier's Awards.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Literature Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups     $35,398

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Highway Bodies Richmond : Echo Publishing , 2019 15432255 2019 single work novel horror young adult fantasy

'Who will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse?

'Bodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. No access to social media. And a dad who'll suddenly bite your head off - literally. These teens have to learn a new resilience...

'Members of a band wield weapons instead of instruments.

'A pair of siblings find there's only so much you can joke about, when the menace is this strong.

'And a couple find depth among the chaos.

'Highway Bodies is a unique zombie apocalypse story featuring a range of queer and gender non-conforming teens who have lost their families and friends and can only rely upon each other.' (Synopsis)

2019 shortlisted The Readings Young Adult Book Prize
y separately published work icon Ida Scoresby : Echo Publishing , 2017 10329044 2017 single work novel young adult science fiction fantasy

'Ida is a figuring out what to do with her life. This is complicated by the fact that she has the ability to live out the alternatives to the choices she makes, by travelling between parallel universes. This has never really been a problem until one day when she sees a shadowy, see-through doppelganger of herself on the train. Is Ida actually in control of her ability? And how far will she stray from her original path before she realises there are no choices left?' (Publication summary)

2018 longlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
2017 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Young Adult Division Novel
2018 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards People's Choice Award
2018 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Writer/Other 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Verandah , no. 29 2014; (p. 51-56)
2014 winner Verandah Awards Genre Fiction Award
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