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BiographyHistory

Educated as a scientist and graduated as a mathematician, Cora Tate has been a full-time professional entertainer most of her life, including a stint as a regular performer on the prestigious Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. Cora’s repeated attempts to escape the entertainment industry have brought work as a librarian, physics teacher, syndicated newspaper columnist, and city (land use) planner, among other occupations. She lives, writes, and continues to improve her dzonkha vocabulary and pronunciation in Bhutan but visits the US and Europe to perform and thereby to recharge her bank account. Cora has written four novels, three novellas (one published), three novelettes (two published), and forty-some short stories, of which thirty have been published in six countries. Her work won the 2019 Fair Australia Prize.

Source: Supplied by author.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Other works by Cora Tate not individually indexed include:

    'Forest Circus Blues', published by The Legendary July 2018 as Harlan Yarbrough.

    'D. I. Y.', published by Degenerate Literature, Issue 12 as Harlan Yarbrough (flash fiction).

    'Remorse, Contrition', published by Rainforest Review Vol. 8 (print only) as Harlan Yarbrough.

    'Lickety Split', published by Siskiyou Journal Vol. 36, No. 3 (print only) as Bob Jones.

    'Surcease', accepted by Rose Red Review 2017; published in Blood & Thunder Fall 2020 as Harlan Yarbrough.

    'Donna', accepted by Infinite Rust November 2019 (magazine subsequently ceased publication.)

    'Phone Tag', published by The Abstract Elephant Magazine December 2020.

    'Tania’s Story', published by Down in the Dirt October 2020 .

    'Stripey', published by CafeLit 26 November 2020 as Harlan Yarbrough; published by Duck Duck Mongoose as reprint 19 April 2022 as Harlan Yarbrough.

    'Big Fella', published in The 504; accepted (as re-print) by Spillwords, for publication 2 November 2023.

    'Mother-in-Law', published in Ariel Chart December 2021.

    'The Risk of Saving Lives', published by Page & Spine 14 January 2022; reprinted by Alternate Route October 2022.

    'Flight or Fight', published by ShabdAaweg Review 30 May 2022.

    'God Is Love', published by Redemption Magazine 12 February 2023.

Awards for Works

While the Iron Is Hot 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 237 2019; (p. 91-96)
2019 winner The Fair Australia Prize — Best Migrant Writer, Artist or Worker Entry
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