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Born: Established: 1976 Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 2003 Melbourne, Victoria,
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1 2 y separately published work icon Motherlode Excavation, Exploration, New Possibilities Stephanie Holt (editor), Maryanne Lynch (editor), Melbourne : Sybylla Press , 1996 Z267982 1996 anthology short story prose extract poetry drama autobiography
1 17 y separately published work icon She's Fantastical : The First Anthology of Australian Women’s Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism And Fantasy Lucy Sussex (editor), Judith Raphael Buckrich (editor), Melbourne : Sybylla Press , 1995 Z97825 1995 anthology short story poetry extract Sussex and Buckrich bring together Australian female authors who are quirky, idiosyncratic and inventive, presenting a mix of reprint and original material. The twenty-three authors whose works appear in this anthology range from the well known, such as M. Barnard Eldershaw and Gabrielle Lord, to emerging writers such as Leanne Frahm and Lisa Jacobson.

In her introduction, American author Ursula Le Guin argues that women writers see 'a rather different world to men and describe it by rather different means. Working within the parameters of the fantastic provides "a rebel's mode" which enables women writers to "knock the posts out from under the status quo".'
1 6 y separately published work icon Second Degree Tampering : Writing by Women Melbourne : Sybylla Press , 1992 Z11552 1992 anthology poetry short story prose drama

Contains 50 works by 37 Australian women writers. The themes include exploration of identity, the politics of feminism and the self-consciousness of writing. Many women have written of journeys: journeys of discovery, imaginary travels, forced movements, escapes. The 'statelessness' of women, whether oppressive or liberating is a recurrent motif throughout this collection. -- from a foreword titled: Second Degree of Tampering : Towards a Politics of Identity

1 27 y separately published work icon Working Hot : A Novel Mary Fallon , Melbourne : Sybylla Press , 1989 Z928435 1989 single work novel (taught in 1 units)
1 y separately published work icon Between the Lines Bernice Morris , Collingwood : Sybylla Press , 1988 Z1673442 1988 single work autobiography
1 4 y separately published work icon A Modern Classic A Handwritten Modern Classic Finola Moorhead , Fitzroy : Sybylla Press , 1986 Z126972 1986 single work autobiography prose
1 17 y separately published work icon A Gap in the Records Jan McKemmish , Fitzroy : Sybylla Press , 1985 Z382884 1985 single work novel thriller The usual thriller male hero is replaced with a group of four women who unravel the plot involving espionage, political manipulation and global financial empires. (It) explodes the stylistic limits of the spy thriller genre. (Publisher blurb)
1 6 y separately published work icon Quilt : A Collection of Prose Finola Moorhead , Melbourne : Sybylla Press , 1985 Z343154 1985 selected work poetry short story prose criticism
1 y separately published work icon Loose Women Emily George , Brunswick East : Dyke Books , 1984 Z217341 1984 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Paper Thoughts : A Collection of Poems Jo Nehls , Mooroopna : Jo Nehls Jan Ferrari , 1983 Z827792 1983 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Blues on Blues Julie Kirk , Melbourne : Julie Kirk , 1982 Z1191262 1982 selected work poetry
1 5 y separately published work icon Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women F(r)ictions: Australian Women’s Experimental Writing Anna Gibbs (editor), Alison Tilson (editor), Melbourne : Sybylla Press , 1982 Z103049 1982 anthology short story poetry extract autobiography prose humour satire

Frictions: An Anthology of Fiction by Women marks the distance Australian women have travelled as writers.
1 y separately published work icon JoJan : a collection of poems Jo Nehls , Jan Ferrari , Mooroopna : Jo Nehls Jan Ferrari , 1981 Z501024 1981 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Accident Emily George , Mount Best : Emily George , 1980 Z415371 1980 single work novel

It was 1973 and Jane, married, with two primary school children, in her second year of uni as a mature age student, working part-time as a waitress in the evenings to make ends meet and a member of a newly formed weekly Women’s Liberation Conscious Raising Group felt that life was finally coming together. Till a car failed to give way to the right as she was travelling out to La Trobe Uni on her motor bike for her second English tute of the year and broke her left tibia and fibula. This book details the excruciatingly painful time Jane had over the next nine months as she learned to walk on crutches with her left leg in plaster, struggled to continue her studies and to come to terms with the fact that her marriage was over when she and her husband agreed to separate after a bone graft operation to mend the break in her leg that wasn’t healing properly. However, the members of her weekly Consciousness Raising Group and once she’d moved into Glenn College, leaving the children with their father in the marital home, Jane gradually came to realise that terrible and all as it had been, breaking her leg had proved to be a necessary catalyst for her to realise, amongst other things, that she had fallen in love with her best girlfriend.

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1 y separately published work icon A Lesbian Rag Doll Helen Pausacker , Helen Pausacker (illustrator), Fitzroy North : Sybylla Press , 1979 Z1367512 1979 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Elspeth Brown : A Novella Emily George , Melbourne : Emily George , 1979 Z362256 1979 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Woman: Short Stories Emily George , Brunswick East : Emily George , 1978 Z1070506 1978 selected work short story
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