Elinora Westfall
Influenced by David Bowie, Virginia Woolf, Dusty Springfield and Sally Wainwright, Elinora Westfall is a British/Australian lesbian writer of stage, screen, fiction, poetry and radio. Her short story, A Terrible Thing Has Happened, was shortlisted for The Bedford Prize 2022, her novel, Everland was selected for the Penguin and Random House WriteNow Editorial Programme in 2021, and her short films have been selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, Cannes Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Camden Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, while her theatre and audio shows have been selected by The British Libraryand performed in London’s West End and on Broadway, where she won the award for Best Monologue. Elinora was selected as one of the 2022/2023 All Stories alumni and her full-length poetry collection, Life in the Dressing Room of the Theatre and her collection of short stories, The Art of Almost, are forthcoming with Vine Leaves Press.