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1 No Cockatoos Bri Lee , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 80 no. 2 2021;
1 [Review] Stop Girl Bri Lee , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 April 2021;

— Review of Stop Girl Sally Sara , 2021 single work drama

Foreign correspondent Sally Sara’s semi-autobiographical play at Belvoir, Stop Girl, captures the quotidian anguish of suffering a breakdown. By Bri Lee.

1 Slipping through Time Bri Lee , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6-12 March 2021;

— Review of Playing Beatie Bow Kate Mulvany , 2021 single work drama
'Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow throws a sinister enchantment over contemporary Sydney. By Bri Lee.' 
1 Winner Winner (Part Three) Bri Lee , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 25-31 July 2020;
1 Winner Winner (Part Two) Bri Lee , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18-24 July 2020;
1 Winner Winner (Part One) Bri Lee , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11-17 July 2020;
1 How We Keep Our Pens Mighty Bri Lee , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 78 no. 4 2019; (p. 92-99)

'I travel around this beautiful country speaking about issues of law and sexual violence, and I cannot do so without acknowledging that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are three times as likely as non-Indigenous women to have experienced violence; that despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders over the age of 18 making up around 2 per cent of our population, they represent 28 per cent of total prisoner population; that we are seeing absolutely no improvements in the rates of Aboriginal deaths in custody and that half of those deaths are of prisoners not even found guilty.'(Introduction)

1 Reporting My Sexual Assault Was Horrific but Healing. Here’s What I Learned Bri Lee , 2018 single work autobiography
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 21 May 2018;
2 9 y separately published work icon Eggshell Skull Bri Lee , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2018 13717214 2018 single work autobiography

'EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness cannot mitigate the seriousness of the crime.

'But what if it also works the other way? What if a defendant on trial for sexual crimes has to accept his 'victim' as she comes: a strong, determined accuser who knows the legal system, who will not back down until justice is done?

'Bri Lee began her first day of work at the Queensland District Court as a bright-eyed judge's associate. Two years later she was back as the complainant in her own case.

'This is the story of Bri's journey through the Australian legal system; first as the daughter of a policeman, then as a law student, and finally as a judge's associate in both metropolitan and regional Queensland -- where justice can look very different, especially for women. The injustice Bri witnessed, mourned and raged over every day finally forced her to confront her own personal history, one she'd vowed never to tell. And this is how, after years of struggle, she found herself on the other side of the courtroom, telling her story.

'Bri Lee has written a fierce and eloquent memoir that addresses both her own reckoning with the past as well as with the stories around her, to speak the truth with wit, empathy and unflinching courage. Eggshell Skull is a haunting appraisal of modern Australia from a new and essential voice.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

1 What Ripples beneath : The Chilling Realities of Equal Justice Bri Lee , 2017 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , August no. 57 2017; (p. 174-182)
1 'I Was Paralysed by Fear' : Liam Pieper on Writing about the Holocaust Bri Lee , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 21 July 2016;
'In his first foray into fiction, The Toymaker author reveals he was terrified he would ‘cause offense or suffering to survivors and their families’ ...'
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