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Casey Lucas is the winner of the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Short Story. Her short fiction has been published in venues such as Diabolical Plots and Year's Best Aotearoa Science Fiction and Fantasy. She edits Japanese manga for English publication and works in video game development, where her recent projects have been shortlisted for four New Zealand Games Awards.

How NZ’s best fantasy and science fiction writers got shafted on a global stage

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The Sir Julius Vogel Awards last Thursday were meant to be a celebration of some of our best genre writers. It didn’t turn out that way, as Casey Lucas, one of the winners, explains. This is the story of how the nominees and recipients of the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards, New Zealand’s most prominent … Read more

The ‘promising young athlete’ cliche risks erasing the victim’s reality

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What does it say about our sporting bodies that we’d even consider letting those who have admitted sexual assault compete under our banner, writes Casey Lucas. “A promising young athlete…” It’s startling how a seemingly innocent phrase can conjure cold dread in the stomach before your eyes even reach the end of the sentence. “You … Read more