Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 The Pleasure Cure : Transforming Healing into an Adventure
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'THE SOUND OF waves just behind me filled my ears. My bare feet on the hot sand made me feel vaguely uncomfortable. I gently lifted them up and down, like a comical kind of marching: left, right, left, right, up and down, up and down. My arms joined in, swinging forwards and backwards in time. The twelve days of Christmas were always significant in our family story, give or take a day or two. In the demarcation of our coastal life, the things that preceded and followed our annual trip to the beach – the buying, the wrapping and unwrapping of gifts, the packing and unpacking of bags – coincided, oddly, with the re-boxing of unwanted presents and the release of our urban bodies set free by the sea.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Griffith Review Generosities of Spirit – The Novella Project VIII no. 70 2020 20734227 2020 periodical issue

    'Griffith Review‘s annual showcase of the best of Australian new writing presents stories of inner lives, resilience and potential realised.

    'It features the four winners of our annual novella competition – Rhianna BoyleClaire G ColemanMikele Prestia and Kate Veitch – as well as exciting new work from Thomas MajorKristina OlssonAdam ThompsonLinda Neil and Allanah Hunt. There’s new poetry from a compelling range of vital Australian voices, and the first in an ongoing series of pieces that will feature online over December and January, The Elemental Summer, from award-winning climate scientist Joëlle Gergis.' (Publication summary)

    2020
    pg. 231-243
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