Julia Prendergast Julia Prendergast i(8334591 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Julia Prendergast completed a PhD (Writing and Literature) at Deakin University and in 2018 was working as a lecturer at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Her debut novel, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, was published in 2018. She has also published short work in, among other periodicals, TEXT and Review of Australian Fiction.

Sources include Australian Short Story Festival.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2022 shortlisted Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction for 'Contrapuntal'.
2016 shortlisted Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize For 'Colour me Grey'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Earth Does Not Get Fat Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2018 12177089 2018 single work novel

'She looked like someone who has had a hard life and no money to take care of herself, like a broken woman at the end of the world, dead on her feet, skin slapped over her bones like white paint, old white paint, slightly yellow. Her shoulders and collarbones were sticking out of her skin like … like nothing. There is nothing I know that is as awful as her bones poking out of her dirty yellow chicken-skin.

'Chelsea doesn’t attend school much any more. She is carer for her mother who is sinking further into depression after a trauma, and her Grandad who has slipped into full-blown dementia. Her father is long gone; others are shadowy memories – intangible like dreams. Barely known ghosts make for strange company. Then a parcel arrives, and in it are questions—about her mother and her past self, their shared histories, and the people and place from which they’ve run.

'The Earth Does Not Get Fat is a powerful and gut-wrenching debut about intense suffering and love—fierce, searing love.' (Publication summary)

2019 longlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
Like Clay 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 143 2015; (p. 88-94)
2015 second place Geoff Dean Short Story Prize
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