Ellen Rodger's novella The Girls' Room was featured in Love & Desire: Four Modern Australian Novellas. Her manuscript Happy At Work was shortlisted for the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize. Her writing has also been published in The Best Australian Stories and The Age. Her short fiction has been recognised by the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the Newcastle Short Story Award, the Albury City Short Story Award, the Alan Marshall Short Story Award, The Age Short Story Award, and the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize.

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