The Menopause Witches
Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

The Menopause Witches

Shortlisted for the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize 2026. A short story about the magic that happens when women commune in kitchens or in forests.

UPCOMING PUBLICATION IN HEROINE’S ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 6 - WITCHCRAFT, 2026

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Kerania Versus The Dream
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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Scrabble Brain
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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Your social media presence might eat you alive
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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Want to Make Art? You Better Be Rich.
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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Being Single For 12 Years Ended Up Shaping My Identity
Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

Being Single For 12 Years Ended Up Shaping My Identity

Without realising it, that lonely decade became a slow reclamation. Free of obligation to anyone but myself. My time as a single woman was crucial to discovering who I really am.

PUBLISHED IN SBS VOICES, APRIL 2021

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My Parents Sent Me To Greece When I Was Two
Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

My Parents Sent Me To Greece When I Was Two

Mum tells me of how she flew to Melbourne from Adelaide just to see me for five minutes before I flew away. All these years later, I still grapple with what it means for my sense of home and identity.

PUBLISHED IN SBS VOICES, 20 OCTOBER 2020

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