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researcher Lucy Sussex. Click on the links above for more
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Awards Lucy has won, her
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News -
Lucy Wins the Sir Julius Vogel award!
| 16.Apr.08 |
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Lucy won the Sir Julius Vogel award for her short story "Mist
and Murder".
Click here for the details.
Full list of winner can be found
here. |
| 19.Mar.08 |
To find out what's inside the box, go to
the Brimstone Press website (www.brimstonepress.com.au)
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| 18.Mar.08 |
Lucy has had her short story "Mist and Murder"
nominated for a Sir Julius Vogel Award in New Zealand - more
details
here. |
| 01.Oct.07 |
Lucy will be conducting a speculative fiction writing workshop at the
Victorian Writers Centre, 1sr floor, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston
St, Melbourne on Sat. 6th October. 10am-4pm. Victorian Writers Centre
members $90. Non-members $120.
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| 04.Sep.07 |
Current projects: Lucy is writing a piece in the forthcoming
Meanjin about how a resident's action
group took issue with a 10-storey development planned for Brunswick (a rather flat suburb).
They took the issue to VCAT and won without a lawyer. Then the developer turned out to be Tony Mokbel.
Says Lucy: I'm not interested in the usual gangland books fare--which lowlifes did what to whom--but rather the issue of how much drug money underpins the market, and how crime becomes legitimate, through the need to launder profits.
Lucy is teaching a workshop on Speculative Fiction at the Victorian Writers' Centre on October 6th.
Workshop: How do you speculate in fiction? Can you write science fiction without being a scientist? And how can crazy ideas be turned into credible stories? This workshop is aimed at beginning to intermediate writers of the non-realistic, the futuristic, and the fabulous.
Click Victorian Writers' Centre for more details and scroll down to the October events.
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| 23.Aug.07 |
You can find the 2007 Snapshot interview with
Lucy
here.
Lucy has a story in the speculative fiction anthology c0ck anthology: Adventures in Masculinity
edited by Keith Stevenson. You can find more information and
order the book from
Couer de Lion Publishing. |
| 11.Jun.07 |
Updated Book of the week.
- Short story The Revenant in
Eidolon I. |
| 06.Jun.07 |
Lucy has a new story called Mist and
Murder available in the next edition of
New Ceres. |
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News Archive |
Reviews - Book of the Week
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THE WORLD
ACCORDING TO BERTIE
Alexander McCall Smith Polygon, $34.95
The super-prolific Alexander McCall Smith has ranged from
books academic to his famous Botswana detective stories. His
Scotland Street series is a portrait of his native Edinburgh -
one very removed from the darkness of Ian Rankin. Here the Scots
bourgeoisie take their children on outings, visit art galleries,
and drink coffee. Chattering classes? Not in the Tory,
pejorative sense. The characters first appeared in a newspaper
serial, which involved Smith writing 850-word chunks daily. It
is a happy form, for him, a series of vignettes in which
individuals can be followed through a novel-length
narrative. The Bertie of the title is a hapless six-year old
with a new baby brother. His mother is so devoted to raising the
perfect child that Bertie has no real fun in life. Other
characters include Angus, who has a troublesome dog, and cafe
owner Big Lou. Some of the satire is laid on with a trowel and
an expression may be imprecise, but the book is perceptive and
amiable. Somebody should do the same for Melbourne.
Alexander McCall Smith is a guest at the Age Melbourne Writers'
Festival.
www.mwf.com.au |
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The Keep - Jennifer Egan
Abacus, $32.00
The Keep is about the redemptive power of writing. The premise is unlikely, for anyone who knows bitter and twisted authors, and The Keep is certainly not about writing best-sellers. It interrogates the gothic mode, as a vehicle for self-examination and psychic truth. The novel begins with Danny, an aimless young American in Europe. His cousin Howard is renovating a castle in the Czech Republic, and Danny has come to help - and also avoid trouble back in New York. The two once shared a love of Dungeons and Dragons, until they were estranged by an act of cruelty. Now all is forgiven, or is it? That is one layer of the book, the next being its author, Ray. He has his own dungeon, being imprisoned for murder. A creative writing class becomes a passion. And his new love of writing is as much about creativity as it is about his teacher, Holly. There are those who hate clever women writers: they will loathe this book. Others will enjoy the perfect balance between horror and realist modes, anchored by a strong depiction of the three main characters. Egan toys with a happy romantic ending, and then dumps the reader in icy water. For grown-up readers.
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