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Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2019
Hunter Writers' Centre
(editor),
Newcastle
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Hunter Writers' Centre
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2019
18294241
2019
anthology
short story
'A wonderful collection of short stories by the top 35 Australian writers. Another brilliant Newcastle Short Story Award anthology. 'Stories came from every corner of the Australian Commonwealth (and beyond), and we were often deeply touched by memoirs of lives so different to our own sent from remote corners of Australia.' - judges Annabel Smith and Tim Richards.' (Publication summary)
Newcastle
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Hunter Writers' Centre
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2019
pg.
23-27
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Dreams They Forgot
Mile End
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Wakefield Press
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2020
19557933
2020
selected work
short story
'Two sisters await the tidal wave predicted for 1970s Adelaide after Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality. An interstate family drive is complicated by the father's memory of sighting UFOs. Two women drive from Melbourne to Sydney to see the Harbour Bridge before it's finished. An isolated family tries to weather climate change as the Doomsday Clock ticks.
'Emma Ashmere's stories explore illusion, deception and acts of quiet rebellion. Diverse characters travel high and low roads through time and place - from a grand 1860s Adelaide music hall to a dilapidated London squat, from a modern Melbourne hospital to the 1950s Maralinga test site, to the 1990s diamond mines of Borneo.
'Undercut with longing and unbelonging, absurdity and tragedy, thwarted plans and fortuitous serendipity, each story offers glimpses into the dreams, limitations, gains and losses of fragmented families, loners and lovers, survivors and misfits, as they piece together a place for themselves in the imperfect mosaic of the natural and unnatural world.' (Publication summary)
Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2020 pg. 199-207
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