Kavita Bedford Kavita Bedford i(7282626 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Indian
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1 Practising Yoga Kavita Bedford , 2024 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Growing Up Indian in Australia 2024; (p. 84-90)
1 Berchem Station Kavita Bedford , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: New Australian Fiction 2022 2022; (p. 61-67)
1 Riverine Kavita Bedford , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Island Online - 2021 2021;
1 How to Wait Kavita Bedford , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 March 2021;
3 5 y separately published work icon Friends and Dark Shapes Kavita Bedford , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2021 20533286 2021 single work novel

'The city I grew up in was elastic and belonged to me and my friends as we stretched it through the nights. We knew its contours, and when something new arrived we were among the first to be a part of it. Everything was powder pink and bendy and shiny for us. We hadn’t had time to build a lasting memory around some fixture and then watch that time fall away from under us.

'A group of friends moves into a share house in Redfern. They are all on the cusp of thirty and big life changes, navigating insecure employment and housing, second-generation identity, online dating and social alienation—and one of them, our narrator, has just lost her father.

'How do you inhabit a space where the landscape is shifting around you, when your sense of self is unravelling? What meaning does time have in the midst of grief?

'Through emotionally rich vignettes, tinged with humour, Friends & Dark Shapes sketches the contours of contemporary life. It is a novel of love and loss, of constancy and change. Most of all, it is about looking for connection in an estranged world.' (Publication summary)

1 The Spectator: Something Distant Called War Kavita Bedford , 2017 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , May no. 56 2017; (p. 161-167)
'I went to a high school filled with smart kids. Kids who had been specially selected because their brains were somehow advanced. But they were only smart in the way they could read books and do tricky things with numbers in their heads. Many of them had no social skills; others were suffering from things that at the time had names like 'attention deficit disorder'; and lots of them popped small pills to calm them down, or speed them up, depending on the time of day and what their parents demanded of them.' (Publication abstract)
1 The Most Northern Southern City Kavita Bedford , 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 35 2014; (p. 208-221) Going Down Swinging , no. 40 2019; (p. 209-216)
1 The Bath Kavita Bedford , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Westside , vol. 2 no. 2012; (p. 75-77)
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