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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Happy Endings
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'Bella Green is a Sunday-afternoon sex worker. Divorced dads, IT nerds, international students - she's here for the idiosyncrasies of human behaviour, for soothing the lonely. But really for the cash.

'From an entrepreneurial kid to a young woman trying to find herself (and desperate to stay out of call centres), Bella started sex work for the glamour and the taboo. Instead, she found her place in this surprisingly mundane and often entertaining industry, where the hierarchy is strict, the names are fake, and spare towels always come in handy.

'Taking us on a funny, candid, can't-look-away journey through brothels, strip clubs, peep shows and dominatrix dungeons, Happy Endings is a hilarious and compelling memoir from a bright and bold new Australian voice.' (Publication summary)

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New Sex-Work Literature Millie Baylis , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 81 no. 1 2022; Meanjin Online 2022;

— Review of Happy Endings Bella Green , 2021 single work autobiography ; Come : A Memoir Rita Therese , 2020 single work autobiography

'We’ve come a long way in the representation of sex work in Australian literature. In 2016 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) programmed a panel comprising anti-sex-work campaigners to discuss the ‘devastating impact of prostitution’ without any actual sex workers present. And I remember—as a closeted sex worker wanting to be a writer at the time—watching the sex-worker community call this out, while for the most part people in literary circles did not seem to notice or care.'  (Introduction)

New Sex-Work Literature Millie Baylis , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 81 no. 1 2022; Meanjin Online 2022;

— Review of Happy Endings Bella Green , 2021 single work autobiography ; Come : A Memoir Rita Therese , 2020 single work autobiography

'We’ve come a long way in the representation of sex work in Australian literature. In 2016 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) programmed a panel comprising anti-sex-work campaigners to discuss the ‘devastating impact of prostitution’ without any actual sex workers present. And I remember—as a closeted sex worker wanting to be a writer at the time—watching the sex-worker community call this out, while for the most part people in literary circles did not seem to notice or care.'  (Introduction)

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