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y separately published work icon Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls selected work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls
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'Excitable girls rush out to meet life; what could go wrong? A masterful debut about the terrifying thrills of innocence from a voice of experience.

'Teenagers sneak out to the creek for a wild New Year's Eve party. A sleep-deprived woman who imagines she is pregnant to a Viking faces her scathing sixteen-year-old self. A woman in love wakes up in a van Gogh painting.

'These gem-like stories are about the desire to rush out and meet life; about getting in over your head; about danger, and damage, and what it means to survive – and not always survive – the risk of being young. They chart the borderlands between girls and women, daughters and mothers, freedom and fear.

'Emerging fully-formed and singing songs of both innocence and experience, Anne Casey-Hardy is the rarest of new voices: at the same time reckless and entirely in control; funny and frightening; wise and full-blooded.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Gary, Jess and Vincent.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2022 .
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      Extent: 256p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 3 August 2022

      ISBN: 9781761107269

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Best of 2022 in Australian Reading Scott Limbrick , Jonno Revanche , Ellen O'Brien , Megan Cheong , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023;

— Review of This All Come Back Now 2022 anthology short story ; Unlimited Futures 2022 anthology short story ; An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life Paul Dalla Rosa , 2022 selected work short story ; Women I Know Katerina Gibson , 2022 selected work short story ; Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2022 selected work short story ; The Burnished Sun Mirandi Riwoe , 2022 selected work short story ; This Devastating Fever Sophie Cunningham , 2022 single work novel ; Losing Face George Haddad , 2022 single work novel ; Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance Eda Gunaydin , 2022 selected work essay ; People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay ; The Diplomat Chris Womersley , 2022 single work novel
Book Review: Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls by Anne Casey-Hardy Paula Thompson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , August 2022;

— Review of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story

'An assured debut collection of short stories for and about women.'

Women Rule in Modern Gothic Charle Malycon , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2022;

— Review of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story
Women and Girls at Risk, at the End of the World: These Subversive Short Stories Reflect Our Anxieties Ariella Van Luyn , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 28 November 2022;

— Review of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2022 selected work short story

'Anne Casey-Hardy’s Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls and Else Fitzgerald’s Everything Feels like the End of the World share feminist concerns. But while both use the short-story collection to explore latent social violence and collective anxieties, they are dramatically distinct.' (Introduction)

Experimental Flair : Three New Short Story Collections Alex Cothren , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 447 2022; (p. 49-50)

— Review of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story ; Here Be Leviathans Chris Flynn , 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2022 selected work short story

'There’s a theory that short fiction is the perfect panacea for modern life. As our attention spans grow weak on  a diet of digital gruel and as our free time clogs up with late-night work emails, enter the short story as an efficient fiction-booster administered daily on the commute between suburb and CBD. I love this theory, and I will forever resent Jane Rawson for exposing its flaws in a 2018 Overland article on the subject. Rawson explains that most time-poor readers prefer to dip in and out of long novels, where they can greet familiar worlds without the awkward orientation period required by a new text. In contrast, says Rawson, collections of ‘stories plunge you back into that icy pool of not-knowing every 500, 800, 2000 or 5000 words. Who wants that? Pretty much no-one, if bestseller lists are anything to go by.’' (Introduction)

Experimental Flair : Three New Short Story Collections Alex Cothren , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 447 2022; (p. 49-50)

— Review of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story ; Here Be Leviathans Chris Flynn , 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2022 selected work short story

'There’s a theory that short fiction is the perfect panacea for modern life. As our attention spans grow weak on  a diet of digital gruel and as our free time clogs up with late-night work emails, enter the short story as an efficient fiction-booster administered daily on the commute between suburb and CBD. I love this theory, and I will forever resent Jane Rawson for exposing its flaws in a 2018 Overland article on the subject. Rawson explains that most time-poor readers prefer to dip in and out of long novels, where they can greet familiar worlds without the awkward orientation period required by a new text. In contrast, says Rawson, collections of ‘stories plunge you back into that icy pool of not-knowing every 500, 800, 2000 or 5000 words. Who wants that? Pretty much no-one, if bestseller lists are anything to go by.’' (Introduction)

Women and Girls at Risk, at the End of the World: These Subversive Short Stories Reflect Our Anxieties Ariella Van Luyn , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 28 November 2022;

— Review of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2022 selected work short story

'Anne Casey-Hardy’s Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls and Else Fitzgerald’s Everything Feels like the End of the World share feminist concerns. But while both use the short-story collection to explore latent social violence and collective anxieties, they are dramatically distinct.' (Introduction)

Best of 2022 in Australian Reading Scott Limbrick , Jonno Revanche , Ellen O'Brien , Megan Cheong , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023;

— Review of This All Come Back Now 2022 anthology short story ; Unlimited Futures 2022 anthology short story ; An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life Paul Dalla Rosa , 2022 selected work short story ; Women I Know Katerina Gibson , 2022 selected work short story ; Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2022 selected work short story ; The Burnished Sun Mirandi Riwoe , 2022 selected work short story ; This Devastating Fever Sophie Cunningham , 2022 single work novel ; Losing Face George Haddad , 2022 single work novel ; Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance Eda Gunaydin , 2022 selected work essay ; People Who Lunch : Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living Sally Olds , 2022 selected work essay ; The Diplomat Chris Womersley , 2022 single work novel
Women Rule in Modern Gothic Charle Malycon , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2022;

— Review of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story
Book Review: Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls by Anne Casey-Hardy Paula Thompson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , August 2022;

— Review of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls Anne Casey-Hardy , 2022 selected work short story

'An assured debut collection of short stories for and about women.'

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