Melissa Manning Melissa Manning i(8968096 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Melissa Manning is a Melbourne-based writer.

In 2019, she was longlisted for the Experimental Nonfiction Prize for 'The Boy'.

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y separately published work icon Smokehouse St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 18931843 2020 selected work short story

'A man watches a boy in a playground and pictures him in the grey wooden shed he's turned into a home. A woman's adopted mother dies, reawakening childhood memories and grief. A couple's decision to move to an isolated location may just be their undoing. A young woman forms an unexpected connection at a summer school in Hungary.

'Set in southern Tasmania, these interlinked stories bring into focus the inhabitants of small communities, and capture the moments when life turns and one person becomes another. With insight and empathy, Melissa Manning interrogates how the people we meet and the places we live shape the person we become.' (Publication summary)

2022 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Fiction
2021 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award
Woodsmoke 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 221 2015; (p. 53) Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 27-28)
2015 winner Overland Story Wine Prize
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