the other side of better

by Michelle Elvy

155 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

A Pushcart nominee, a Watson Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, a three-time finalist in the Glass Woman international writing competition, Michelle is also the recipient of a New Zealand Society of Authors/Auckland Museum Library grant and a New Zealand Society of Authors mentorship grant. In 2016, she was also short-listed for the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship for her novel draft, and her story ‘Lost and Found in Berlin’ placed second in the Nivalis Short Story Competition.

Her poetry, fiction, travel writing, creative nonfiction and reviews have been widely published, most recently in The Feminine Divine (Cynren Press 2019), New Micro (W.W. Norton 2018), Ofi Press (2016-2018), Manifesto: 101 Political Poems from Aotearoa New Zealand (Otago University Press 2017) and Borderlands & Crossroads: Writing the Motherland (Demeter Press 2016).

Reviews

[Bronwen Griffiths]

It's always difficult to rate a book of short stories/flash fiction. There are a couple of magnificent stories in here - Lost and Found in Berlin and Whale Shark simply can't be faulted - but the rest I wasn't so impressed with. Elvy's 'everrumble' - a novella-in-flash - is magnificent so start there if you'd like to read her better work.