Adriane Howell Adriane Howell i(A152532 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
1 6 y separately published work icon Hydra Adriane Howell , Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2022 24383059 2022 single work novel

'Anja is a young, ambitious antiquarian, passionate for the clean and balanced lines of mid-century furniture. She is intent on classifying objects based on emotional response and when her career goes awry, Anja finds herself adrift. Like a close friend, she confesses her intimacies and rage to us with candour, tenderness, and humour.

'Cast out from the world of antiques, she stumbles upon a beachside cottage that the neighbouring naval base is offering for a 100-year lease. The property is derelict, isolated, and surrounded by scrub. Despite of, or because of, its wildness and solitude, Anja uses the last of the inheritance from her mother to lease the property. Yet a presence – human, ghost, other – seemingly inhabits the grounds. 

'Hydra is a novel of dark suspense and mental disquiet, struck through with black humour. Adriane Howell beguilingly explores notions of moral culpability, revenge, memory, and narrative – all through the female lens of freedom and constraint. She holds us captive to the last page.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Illuminating the Surface: A Tale of Creativity and Doubt Adriane Howell , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Offset , no. 17 2017;
1 The Promise of Magic Adriane Howell , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , April 2017;
1 Fat Content i "Hi friends. Yes I’m back. Back from the doctor, which went well. He invited me in and asked me if I was a Twitter", Adriane Howell , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , May 2014;
1 Hysteria i "London calling.", Adriane Howell , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , May 2014;
1 Loin Cuts Adriane Howell , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , May 2014;
1 y separately published work icon Gargouille Sarah Wreford (editor), Adriane Howell (editor), 2014 Melbourne : Wreford & Howell , 2014 8242058 2014 periodical (4 issues)

'Gargouille is a printed, bi-annual literary journal of short stories, poetry, scripts, aesthetic essays, lost and found words. It was founded in 2014 by Sarah Wreford and Adriane Howell.'

'Gargouille deals in affect and intrigue. It is the fat in your foie gras, the wet paint on your new beginning. We erase so that we may create. These are the stories whispered behind closed doors. ...'

1 The Camembert Traveller Adriane Howell , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Vine Leaves , January no. 5 2013;
X