Dominic Amerena
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| Born | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | RMIT |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
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Dominic Amerena is an Australian writer, whose debut novel I Want Everything (2025), was awarded the 2025 Readings New Australian Fiction Prize.In 2017, he moved with his partner to Athens, Greece, with his partner author Ellena Savage.[1]
His short fiction, essays and criticism have appeared in Kill Your Darlings, The Age and Overland.
I Want Everything was awarded the 2025 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction.[2] The novel reflects Amerena's interest in Australian literary history, especially in relation to literary hoaxes.[3] Emmett Stinson argues that I Want Everything is one of a recent trend in Australian literary fiction “that have skewered contemporary literary culture in its bourgeois, institutionalised form”. [4]
Short fiction
"Tender and Doomed" was published in Overland in a special issue of short stories commissioned during COVID lockdown.[5]
"Help Me Harden My Heart" was published in the Australian Book Review.[6] This story was selected for The Best Australian Stories 2017 edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke. [7]
References
- ↑ Amerena, Dominic (8 March 2025). "The Light and the Poverty". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
- ↑ Marx, Jack (16 May 2025). "Book Review: Dominic Amerena's 'I Want Everything' is the Real Deal". The Australian. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
- ↑ Heath, Nicola; L'Estrange, Sarah (22 July 2025). "Dominic Amerena writes about a literary fraudster in his debut novel, I Want Everything". ABC News. ABC. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
- ↑ Stinson, Emmett (29 May 2025). "Australia's Literary Impostor Syndrome". Kill Your Darlings. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
- ↑ Gomez, Elena. "Editorial: Fiction in Lockdown". Overland. Australia. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
- ↑ Amerena, Dominic. "'Help Me Harden My Heart'". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
- ↑ Shirm, Gretchen (9 December 2017). "Children at the heart of stirring narratives". The Australian. Canberra. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
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