Mandy Beaumont Mandy Beaumont i(A84356 works by)
Born: Established: 1977 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Poet and performance poet, Mandy Beaumont also worked in collaboration with other artists and was a member of Speedpoets. She has coordinated poetry and spoken word events in Australia. She teaches Creative Writing at Griffith University.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 recipient Creative Victoria Sustaining Creative Workers Fund ($5000): ‘To complete a new novel “My Heart is an Ocean”.’
2017 shortlisted The Fair Australia Prize Fiction Prize

For 'A Riot of Colour'.

2017 shortlisted The Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers for ‘Drowning in Thick Air’

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Furies Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2022 23420143 2022 single work novel crime

'Defiant, ferocious and unyielding - The Furies is a unique and breathtakingly powerful debut novel from Mandy Beaumont. For those who love Charlotte Wood, Margaret Atwood and Carmen Maria Machado.

'Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure that she must be somewhere else now, wherever that is.

'Cynthia knows that she doesn't belong here. Her mother never belonged here either. This is the place of violence. Despair. The long dry. Blood caked under the nails. Desperate men. Long silences. The place where mothers go mad in locked bedrooms, where women like Cynthia imagine better futures.

'As a threatening wind begins to dry-whirl around her, seldom seen black clouds form above, roll over the golden-brown land - is that Mallory she can hear in the growling mass? In the harsh drought-stricken landscape of outback Queensland a woman can be lost in so many ways. The question is, will Cynthia be one of them?'

Source : publisher's blurb

2023 longlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2023 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2023 longlisted The Stella Prize
2023 shortlisted MUD Literary Prize
2022 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book Award
y separately published work icon Wild Fearless Chests Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2020 18052618 2020 selected work short story

'She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of violence imagined on the skin. She is the near miss. She is the woman you once were, the woman you could be, the woman you are. She is a triumph of our shared history, is every one of you, is your wild and screaming voice on street corners, is the madwoman you fear you may become. She loves you.

'As women's voices begin to rise together, Mandy Beaumont's brutal and uncompromising stories are a compelling reminder of the ways in which women have fallen, been dismissed, hurt, hated and loved from afar.

'These are the stories we have always known, have always heard about and are perhaps just short moments away from. They are yours, ours, mine. They are booming anger. They are wild love. They are the distorted and the decided, the imagined and the wanted. They are the shaking ground beneath our feet. A powerful call to arms. They compel us to stand tall. To break free. To defy the gaze. To claim our space.

'Wild, Fearless Chests is the sound of a certain revolution.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2018 shortlisted The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers as 'She Is Bright Light And All Brilliance'
2019 shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript as 'She Is Bright Light And All Brilliance'
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