Jane Downing Jane Downing i(A9924 works by)
Born: Established: 1962 Brisbane, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Although born in Australia, Jane Downing has spent many years living in Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, Ireland, Indonesia, the (then) USSR, China, the Marshall Islands and Guam. Her short fiction and poetry have been published widely in Australia and overseas.

In 2012, she was living in Albury, NSW.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Author writes in these languages: ENGLISH

Personal Awards

2024 second place The Furphy Literary Award for 'Are You There Margaret? It's Me, God.'
2023 winner AAALS Creative Writing Competition — Fiction and Nonfiction for 'Slippery Jacks'.
2023 shortlisted The Booranga Prize — The Booranga Prize for Fiction for 'The Thing about Things'.
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Awards for Works

Buena Vista 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: FourW (New Writing) , no. 31 2020; (p. 43-49)
2020 winner The Booranga Prize — The Booranga Prize for Fiction
As Time Goes By 2016 single work prose
— Appears in: Offset , no. 16 2016;
2015 shortlisted The Booranga Prize — The Booranga Prize for Fiction
Killiney Beach 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: New Writing : Twenty Five 2014; (p. 33-35)
2014 shortlisted The Booranga Prize — The Booranga Prize for Fiction
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