Joe Bugden Joe Bugden i(A34195 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Incidental Dreams from a Myoclonic Jerk Joe Bugden , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2024 27458276 2024 selected work short story 'Joe Bugden holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney (with a double major in Literature and Music), and a Master of Letters degree (in American Literature) from the University of New England. Joe has had some of his short fiction published in various journals, and he also composes music. The Listening Post (for solo viola) was commissioned by the Hobart City Council, and has been included in a soundscape as part of the City of Hobart Memorial to recipients of the Victoria Cross. Joe’s first string quartet was premiered by the Rubio Quartet (from Belgium) at the 2004 Canberra International Chamber Music Festival. Joe has also composed two chamber operas, Death by Defenestration and The Call of Aurora, which is based on the story of the Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson. Incidental Dreams from a Myoclonic Jerk is Joe’s first published collection of short stories. The collection is inhabited by characters drawn from unexceptional circumstances, whose lives are touched by love and loss, by regret and remorse, and who are placed in small and domestic settings as an examination of the everyday, and as a metaphor for the universal and ubiquitous conditions of life.' (Publication summary) 
 
1 y separately published work icon The Call of Aurora Joe Bugden , Hobart : A Published Event , 2018 19057577 2018 single work novel historical fiction

'The Call Of Aurora was initially inspired by the tale of Douglas Mawson’s intrepid Antarctic solo journey back to base camp, following the tragic deaths of his two companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz. It was never intended to be a re-telling of the conventional early 20th Century hero’s tale, but an investigation into what might have sustained one individual against the indifference of nature. But in the end, The Call Of Aurora is as much about Sydney Jeffryes, the mad wireless operator who, during the winter of 1913 begins to believe he is Jesus Christ, and a reminder of how history favours the heroes and victors, and discards or silences those that threaten its autonomy.'

Source: The People's Library.
1 The David Jones Woman Joe Bugden , 2000 single work short story
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , June no. 21 2000; (p. 39-58)
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