Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

Kerania Versus The Dream

Winner of first prize in the AlburyCity Short Story Award 2023, Shortlisted for the AAWP/UWRF Emerging Writers Prize 2023. A short story about the cost of oppressed dreams and the price women have paid through the ages.

PUBLISHED IN ACE ANTHOLOGY IV (ed. Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall and Deb Wain) - RECENT WORK PRESS, NOVEMBER 2023

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Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

Scrabble Brain

A fictional short story. It starts with a middle-aged woman grappling with the fallout of the pandemic and ends up in uncanny valley.

PUBLISHED IN PERIL MAGAZINE, EDITION 47 - NO COMPASS, AUGUST 2022

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Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

Your social media presence might eat you alive

The pressure to chase clout and attention online is leading to adverse impacts on our ability to build the communities and connections we crave. It’s called brandification and audience capture. Let’s talk about it.

PUBLISHED IN THE AGE, 26 JULY 2023

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Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

Want to Make Art? You Better Be Rich.

Wages are low, work insecure and funding has been gutted. Amid a cost-of-living crisis and a pandemic, are we about to lose a swathe of artists to obscurity? How Australian culture locked out the working class.

PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA, 16 MAY 2022

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