Nick Roger Clarke is an Australian writer and video producer. He has released two short-story collections—Positive Reinforcements for Negative People (2018) and Artless (2023)—and was the recipient of the 2025 Australasian Association of Writing Programs’ Novella Prize for his soon-to-be-released manuscript A Turn about the Garden.
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Written in the early stages of the pandemic, this fairytale-like story finds a man looking to shape his environment to reflect the fragility of life—one scre…