Pip Smith Pip Smith i(A133167 works by) (a.k.a. Philippa Smith)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Pip Smith has a Masters of Letters in Creative Writing from Sydney University. She has run a monthly short fiction night 'Penguin Plays Rough' in Sydney.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $38,950.00

Awards for Works

The Waiting Room i "The honey clouds are plump with morning light", 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 170 2024; (p. 14-15)
2024 shortlisted Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize
y separately published work icon Theodore the Unsure Lindfield : Scholastic Australia , 2019 17059325 2019 single work picture book children's

'King Theodore is the Ruler of the WHOLE ANIMAL KINGDOM. When his mane keeps growing and growing and growing, he must decide whether to cut it or keep it. But Theodore is always so unsure! What will he do? Find out in this delightfully HAIRY tale.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 selected White Ravens
2020 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Three to 5 Years
y separately published work icon Half Wild Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2017 11104619 2017 single work novel historical fiction mystery

'Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. Doctors talk across her body, nurses jab her in the arm with morphine, detectives arrive to take her fingerprints. She has £100 in her pocket, but no identification. Memories come back to her -- a murder trial, a life in prison -- but with each prick of the needle her memories begin to shift.

'Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papà takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo -- life gallops on the way it should, until a brother, baby William, is born. 'Go and play with your sisters,' Papà says, but wearing dresses and sipping tea is not the life for Tally Ho. Taking the advice of her hero, Harry Crawford, she runs away.

'Sydney, 1917. The burned body of a woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Was she a mad woman? A drunk who'd accidentally set herself on fire? Nobody knows, until -- three years later -- a tailor's apprentice tells police that his mother went missing that same weekend, and that his stepfather, Harry Crawford, is not who he seems to be. Who, then, is he?'

'Based on the true lives of Eugenia Falleni, Half Wild is Pip Smith's dazzling debut novel.' (Publication Summary)

2018 joint winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
2018 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
2018 longlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2018 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2018 longlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
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