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Lorena Otes

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Sydney NSW, Australia

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Born and bred on Sydney’s Northern beaches, Lorena Otes is a mother, author and dance teacher. Her deeply personal memoir, Solo Mum by Choice (Hawkeye Publishing), tells of her journey to and through a unique but exponentially growing version of solo motherhood through the lens of her own experience. It placed runner-up in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize 2024.

She has written for Feels Blind Literary, The Brussels Review, Mamamia Online, and Bounty Parents. Her humour articles have appeared in Witcraft Magazine, Defenestration Literary Humour Magazine, Scalar Comet, and Little Old Lady Comedy.

Lorena is a flash-fiction-writing tragic. Her stories have longlisted in the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Furious Fiction competit ...more

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Solo Mum by Choice

4.93 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2026 — 2 editions

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Don't Forget to Smile

by Ariane Beeston

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This book is moving, humorous and beautifully written. It captures the complexities of family life and also has an authentic Australian setting. The characters are rich and have stayed with me long after I read the last page. I laughed and cried thro ...more
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Lorena Otes made a comment on Amy Evans’s review of Solo Mum by Choice " Thank you so much Amy xx "
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