Amanda O'Callaghan Amanda O'Callaghan i(A153462 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Formerly an advertising executive, Amanda O'Callaghan holds a PhD in English from The University of Queensland. In 2016, she was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship to aid completion of her collection of short stories: the collection was published in 2019 as This Taste for Silence (UQP).

The collection was shortlisted for the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize for a single-authored short-story collection.

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y separately published work icon This Taste for Silence : Stories St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2019 15423298 2019 selected work short story

'The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.

'Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O’Callaghan’s stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a ‘taste for silence’.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 longlisted Edge Hill Short Story Prize
2019 shortlisted Readings Prizes Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
The Turn 2016 single work short story crime
— Appears in: Crime Scenes : Stories 2016; (p. 7-23)
2015 winner The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
y separately published work icon The Memory Bones Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 2013 11449469 2013 single work short story

'As a child, Geraldine spent school holidays with her grandparents on their isolated country property. Her recollections are of halcyon moments filled with family and natural beauty. Years later, while visiting with her widowed grandmother, now living in town and struggling with the onset of dementia, Geraldine learns of a shocking secret that will forever change her childhood perceptions and memories of her grandparent’s home.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2012 longlisted The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
2012 longlisted The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
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