Wenee Yap

Eighteen-year-old Wenee Yap has been writing since she was ten years old, having allegedly first declared her aspirations to an anesthesiologist several seconds before passing out. She migrated to Sydney when she was three, and her first reading addiction was R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series of horror books for children. More recently, Wenee has been twice commended as the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year. In February of this year she won second place in the Newcastle Poetry Prize: New Media section.

Damien Almie by Weenee Yap (mystery)
      Damien Almie descends to his death and relives his life in a rather confusing fashion while his audience contemplates the question: why'd Damien Almie jump? Love and death is played out in this mystery with a science fiction-style telling.

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