Ellie Fisher

Ellie Fisher is a writer. Her creative work has appeared in Westerly Magazine, Swim Meet Lit Mag, Devotion Zine, and Pulch Mag, amongst others. Ellie is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Western Australia. She splits her time between Kinjarling and Boorloo.

Ellie Fisher's Latest Articles

Two panels. On the left is Alicia Sometimes, who has brown hair. On the right is the cover of her book, Stellar Atmospheres. It's is pinkish peach in hue and has random shapes on it.
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Book review: Stellar Atmospheres, Alicia Sometimes

A poetry collection that blends lyricism with astronomical marvels.

Ellie Fisher

Mar 6, 2025
Two panels. On the left is author Kristina Ross. She has blonde wavy hair. On the right is the cover of her book 'First Year'. It has a multicoloured starburst on it.
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Book review: First Year, Kristina Ross

Award-winning debut fiction about a young actress navigating her way around an education in the performing arts.

Ellie Fisher

Mar 4, 2025
Two panels. On the left is Amanda Anastasi, a woman with long brown hair wearing a dark top. On the right is the cover of her book, Taking Apart the Bird Trap. It features a black and white illustration of a birds away from the top of a woman's head.
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Book review: Taking Apart The Bird Trap, Amanda Anastasi

This poetry collection explores life, loss and death in the western suburbs of Melbourne.

Ellie Fisher

Mar 4, 2025
Psykhe. Author shot on left is of a middle aged Caucasian woman with long dark hair sitting with an open book and two candles behind her. She has a patterned black dress on and is smiling broadly. Close to the camera, obscuring the sitter, and out of focus is some white flora of some kind. On the right is a black book cover with flowers in the middle.
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Book review: Psykhe, Kate Forsyth

A new telling of the classic myth focuses on the power and agency of Psykhe.

Ellie Fisher

Jun 5, 2024
Safe Haven. On the right is an author headshot, waist up of a woman of Indian appearance, all in black with arms folded, smiling and looking off the right. On the left is a book jacket in blue, with an illustration of a boat on the sea at night on the front.
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Book review: Safe Haven, Shankari Chandran

The Miles Franklin Award-winning author's new book tackles the politics of Australian detention centres.

Ellie Fisher

Jun 3, 2024
Ordinary Human Love. On the left is a colour headshot of a white woman in her 30s/40s, with wavy dark shoulder length hair, parted in the middle and a V neck black top. The book cover on the right has a pinky/orange background and two lilac coloured statues with arms outstretched, one below the other reaching up as if they are about to kiss.
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Book review: Ordinary Human Love, Melissa Goode

A debut novel that surveys intimate relationships and the nature of desire.

Ellie Fisher

May 28, 2024
Cool Water. On the left is a head shot of a woman with red lipstick and short dark hair, she is looking slightly defensively at the camera. On the right is a blue book cover of a fish in a jar and the title in yellow.
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Book review: Cool Water, Myfanwy Jones

Fathers and sons and how damage can be inherited.

Ellie Fisher

Mar 28, 2024
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Book review: Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not, Imbi Neeme

A quirky novel that explores – among other things – the condition of misophonia.

Ellie Fisher

Mar 25, 2024
Tilda is Visible. On the left is an author image from the torso up of a Caucasian women with shoulder length centre parted strawberry blonde hair and red lipstick. She is wearing a white T shirt and smiling at the camera. On the right is a book cover with the title of the book in large yellow letters on pink and yellow background, slashed diagonally and a line drawing of a woman holding a camera.
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Book review: Tilda is Visible, Jane Tara

A novel about sisterhood and ageism that is poignant, surreal and empathetic.

Ellie Fisher

Mar 25, 2024
Raw Salt. Image is a young woman with long dark wavy hair on the left standing in front of external foliage, body turned slight to her right, wearing black polo neck jumper under black and white patterned sleeveless dress. She has dark red lipstick and a slight smile. On the right is a book cover of close-up of a public phone push button pad, above the book's title in a grey stripe at the bottom.
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Book review: Raw Salt, Izzy Roberts-Orr

This debut poetry collection canvasses death and the environment, mourning and memory.

Ellie Fisher

Mar 21, 2024
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