Alice Bishop Alice Bishop i(7099013 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Alice Bishop has worked for Yarra Libraries and holds a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne. Her work has appeared in Australian Book Review, Overland, the Suburban Review, Visible Ink, Seizure, and Voiceworks.

In 2018, she released her short-story collection A Constant Hum, which was shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the PRH Australia Literary Prize and longlisted for the Indie Awards (debut fiction).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Individuals and groups $32,500
2018 shortlisted Peter Carey Short Story Award For 'Clearing'
2017 shortlisted The Horne Prize for ‘Coppering’

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon A Constant Hum Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2019 15633442 2019 selected work short story

'Before the bushfires -- before the front of flames comes roaring over the hills -- the ridges are thick with gums.

'After the fires, the birds have gone. There is only grey ash and melted metal, the blackened husks of cars.

'And the lost people -- in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city, on the TV news in borrowed clothes, or remembered in flyers on a cafe wall.

'A Constant Hum grapples with the aftermath of disaster with an eye for telling detail. Some of these stories cut to the bone; others are empathetic stories of survival, even hope. All are gripping and beautifully written, heralding the arrival of an important new voice in literary fiction.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award
2017 longlisted Kill Your Darlings Awards The KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award
2020 winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
2018 shortlisted PRH Australia Literary Prize
2020 longlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
Aftermath 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2017;
2017 third place Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction
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