Leonie Stevens Leonie Stevens i(A35635 works by) (a.k.a. Leonie M. Stevens)
Born: Established: 1962 ;
Gender: Female
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1 The Dreaming : A Vessel to Hold Past, Present, Future Leonie Stevens , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 458 2023; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Everywhen : Australia and the Language of Deep History 2023 anthology criticism

'It can take an enormous intellectual effort for non-Indigenous people (such as this reviewer) to grasp Indigenous concepts of time. This is partially due to what Aileen Moreton-Robinson has described as the incommensurability of Indigenous and Western epistemological approaches. In settler-colonial terms, land is a resource to be appropriated, surveyed, and exploited. Temporality is generally used to situate the colonisation event, the before and after, from a perspective where time is linear and forward-looking. By contrast, in Indigenous cosmological approaches, land, culture, and time are co-dependent and in perpetual conversation. Country and time are indivisible.' (Introduction)

1 3 y separately published work icon 'Me Write Myself' : The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemens Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 Leonie Stevens , Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2017 11622342 2017 multi chapter work criticism correspondence

Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race. The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian, and world, history. The men, women, and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed to speak for themselves. This book aims to change that. Penned by the exiles during their fifteen years at the settlement called Wybalenna, items in the Flinders Island Chronicle, sermons, letters, and petitions offer a compelling corrective to traditional portrayals of a hopeless, dispossessed, illiterate people's final days. 

The exiles did not see themselves as prisoners, but as a Free People. Seen through their own writing, the community at Wybalenna was vibrant, complex, and evolving. Rather than a depressed people simply waiting for death, their own words reveal a politically astute community engaged in a fifteen year campaign for their own freedom: one which was ultimately successful. This is a compelling story that will profoundly affect understandings of Tasmanian and Australian history.' (Publication summary)

1 Girl from Collingwood Makes Good Leonie Stevens , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 September 2003; (p. 5)

— Review of The Remarkable Miss Julia Merton Leonie Stevens , 2003 single work novel
1 3 y separately published work icon The Remarkable Miss Julia Merton Leonie Stevens , Camberwell : Penguin , 2003 Z1068725 2003 single work novel historical fiction
1 5 y separately published work icon The Marowack Two Leonie Stevens , Camberwell : Penguin , 2003 Z1012273 2003 single work novel young adult From the author of Eat Well and Stay Out of Jail comes a love story about memory loss, open-cut mining, acts of God, country music and bad hair. (Publisher's blurb, back cover).
1 7 y separately published work icon Eat Well and Stay Out of Jail Leonie Stevens , Ringwood : Penguin , 2000 Z397437 2000 single work novel young adult humour
1 3 y separately published work icon Glue Leonie Stevens , Ringwood : Penguin , 1999 Z220433 1999 single work novel
1 Bob's Place Leonie Stevens , 1998 single work short story
— Appears in: Warp Drive : Australian Drug Stories 1998; (p. 38-46)
1 2 y separately published work icon Warp Drive : Australian Drug Stories Leonie Stevens (editor), Milsons Point : Vintage Australia , 1998 Z238910 1998 anthology short story poetry drama
1 Mother Superior and the Kid from Hell Leonie Stevens , 1997 single work short story humour
— Appears in: Mother Love 2 : More Stories About Births, Babies and Beyond 1997; (p. 221-237)
1 Creepy Crawl Leonie Stevens , 1997 single work short story
— Appears in: Pub Fiction 1997; (p. 205-225)
1 4 y separately published work icon Pub Fiction Leonie Stevens (editor), St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1997 Z512722 1997 anthology short story
1 5 y separately published work icon Big Man's Barbie : ten days that shook my booty Leonie Stevens , Milsons Point : Random House , 1996 Z53816 1996 single work novel humour Siren Boyd's birthday takes a turn for the worse when she is summoned to the home of her uncle, Big George Hay. George wants to hold a huge barbeque that will be the envy of his underworld rivals and he's decided that Siren is the woman to organise it. Handfuls of money make it an offer she can't refuse.' (Publisher's blurb, back cover).
1 The Devil in Ms Jones Leonie Stevens , 1996 single work short story
— Appears in: Out West : Australian Dirt 1996; (p. 55-67)
1 Unidentified Flying Concrete Leonie Stevens , 1996 single work short story
— Appears in: Smashed : Australian Drinking Stories 1996; (p. 93-103)
1 Rosary Beads Leonie Stevens , 1996 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 145 1996; (p. 47-48)
1 15 y separately published work icon Nature Strip Leonie Stevens , Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1994 Z163864 1994 single work novel

"Life on the dole was easy that summer, and the dealers made housecalls. Doomsday had passed for Caitlin, or so it seemed, until her friends in the backstreets started dropping like flies. Leonie Stevens was born in 1962. At the age of eleven, frustrated by the plot limitations of Lost in Space, she wrote her first story. This was her first mature novel, published in 1994. Since then she has written two more novels. Her stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies, on the radio and the Net. She loves Martin Scorsese films and currently lives in Melbourne with her family. Inscription in the first page." Source: Book Description.

1 Ash (from Nature Strip) Leonie Stevens , 1994 extract
— Appears in: The Sydney Review , April no. 63 1994; (p. 14)
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