Susan Laura Sullivan Susan Laura Sullivan i(A9674 works by)
Also writes as: Laura Sullivan
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Susan Laura Sullivan is a writer from Western Australia.

In addition to published works, Sullivan has also read a number of her works at writers' festivals, including performances of spoken poetry combined with a band, and for radio, including the 1990 Triple J Word Up series.

In 1997, she was an emerging writer in residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre.

Her prose work 'The Spider Tree' was produced for and read on Radio National's Bush Telegraph in 2013: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/trees-ive-loved/5083354 (Sighted: 9/7/2015).

An interview with Susan Sullivan was published in the newsletter of The Font: A Literary Journal for Language Teachers in 2013: http://thefontjournal.com/an-interview-susan-laura-sullivan/ (Sighted: 31/01/2017).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2012 shortlisted City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for 'Reasons for Song'.
2001 commended Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Award For 'Daniel'.
1999 Department of Culture and the Arts (Western Australia) Funding to complete the novel then called Five Reasons for Song.
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Women of a Certain Age Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2018 12849943 2018 anthology autobiography

'Fifteen very different life stories by women from all walks of life. 

'From a woman who does not expect to live until puberty to teenagers with secret inner lives; from women who strive to belong to women who cannot wait to get away; from women surprised by the arrival of menopause to women embracing the unexpected freedoms of old age. 

'Fifteen voices tell life stories of celebration, affirmation and survival about what it is like to be a woman on the other side of 40, 50, 60, 70 . . .' (Publication summary)
2019 finalist Foreword Reviews : INDIES — INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award — Women's Studies (Adult Nonfiction)
Word Count 2005 single work short story
— Appears in: Acupuncture for Turtles : A Selection of Award-Winning Stories from the Katherine [sic] Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Competition 1988-2002 2005; (p. 36-41)
1998 highly commended Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Award
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