The Forgetting Navigations
Forthcoming from Interstellar Flight Press in May, 2026.
"Few writers can face brutality without flinching, and fewer can tell it well. Marlee Jane Ward is that rare author who can show you the worst that humanity can do, and at the same time, give you something beautiful. This book is a tapestry of blood, grief, and unbreakable love." -Meg Elison, author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife.
"Harrowing. Thrilling. Beautifully life-affirming. The Forgetting Navigations is all of these things and more. Marlee Jane Ward uses the grammar of space opera to tell an unforgettable story of what it takes to survive in a harsh universe as a woman." Charlie Jane Anders, author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster
Welcome to Orphancorp
Winner of the Viva La Novella Prize & the Victorian Premiers Literary Award for YA. Nominated for The NSW Premiers Award, an Aurealis Award & the Norma K Hemming Award.
"Welcome to Orphancorp is harrowing, scarily real, and ultimately super moving." Charlie Jane Anders (i09)
Psynode
Nominated for Best YA Novel in the Aurealis Awards.
"Even as she tells the story of a world driven wild with capitalism, she points towards the possibility of more. Psynode is confronting and raw. Ward is a phenomenal new voice in Australian YA with a powerful imagination and an enviable talent." Books And Publishing
Prisoncorp
Nominated for Best Science Fiction Novella in the Aurealis Awards'
"It's full of brilliantly compact, atmospheric world-building, with gritty characters you care about." Sydney Morning Herald
Building
Interzone Digital, 2023
Acacia Crescent
Patreon, 2022
The Husband in your Head
Curious Fictions, 2020
Rats
Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories, 2019
Nominated for The Norma K Hemming Award and Best YA Short Story in the Aurealis Awards
Starving To Death In Brunswick West
Slink Chunk Press, August 2017
The Great House Thrippet, Season 246, Episode 12
Aurealis Magazine, Issue 102, July 2017
The Rainmaker Goddess, Hallowed Shaz
Feminartsy, April, 2017
Nominated for Best Fantasy Short Story in the Aurealis Awards
Atavistacular
Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Issue 64, September 2016
The Beasts and the Birthday
Aurealis Magazine, Issue 9, 2016
Fert
In Your Face, Fablecroft Publishing, June 2016
Phasing In, Phasing Out
The Sockdolager, Issue 5, Spring 2016
The Structure
Slink Chunk Press, March 2016
2nd place in the 2014 Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Award
Reconstituted
Apex Magazine, December 2015
Winner of Apex Magazine's Flash Fiction Competition
Clara's
Hear Me Roar, Ticonderoga Press, 2015
Who's A Good Boy?
Vice Terraform, October 2015
Apocalypse Babe
Mad Scientist Journal, Autumn 2015
The Walking Thing
Interfictions 2015
To Start Again or Try
Kill Your Darlings, October 2024
Big Dad Energy
Kill Your Darlings, September 2020
Money for Something (written as Mia Walsch)
2020
What I'm Reading
Meanjin, 2019
Invisible Until
Overland, September 2018
Out of Here
Scum Mag, January 2018