Luke Horton Luke Horton i(7174023 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Luke Horton is a writer from St Kilda. He has worked as a bookseller, edited The Lifted Brow Review of Books, and taught writing and publishing at Melbourne Polytechnic.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 recipient Creative Victoria $15,600 Creative development of a fiction novel that follows a documentary filmmaker over a month-long period of solo parenting, exploring themes of masculinity, mental health, parenting and grief.
2019 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer For 'The Fogging'.
2016 shortlisted Viva La Novella Award For 'The Peacock'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Fogging Carlton North : Scribe , 2020 18931700 2020 single work novel

'A compelling tale of the slow disintegration of a relationship and the unravelling of a man.

'Tom and Clara are two struggling academics in their mid-thirties, who decide to take their first holiday in ten years. On the flight over to Indonesia, Tom experiences a debilitating panic attack, something he hasn't had in a long time, which he keeps hidden from Clara. At the resort, they meet Madeleine, a charismatic French woman, her Australian partner, Jeremy, and five-year-old son, Ollie, and the two couples strike up an easy friendship. The holiday starts to look up, even to Tom, who is struggling to get out of his own head. But when Clara and Madeleine become trapped in the maze-like grounds of the hotel during 'the fogging' - a routine spraying of pesticide - the dynamics suddenly shift between Tom and Clara, and the atmosphere of the holiday darkens.

'Told with equal parts compassion and irony, and brimming with observations that charm, illuminate, and devastate, The Fogging dives deep into what it means to be strong when your foundation is built on sand.' (Publication summary)

2021 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by Laura Thomas
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