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Amanda Curtin

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Author of KATHLEEN O’CONNOR OF PARIS, ELEMENTAL, INHERITED and THE SINKINGS

 Perth, Western Australia
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Joined November 2014
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Reading wrap-up for the year… amandacurtin.com/2023/12/31/…
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Amanda Curtin - Concert Celebrating Kathleen O'Connor fb.watch/kQbCX06SKq/ via @FacebookWatch
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Join us for a special celebration of the life and art of Kathleen O’Connor. Amanda Curtin - Author, award-winning author of “Kathleen O’Connor of Paris” will be narrating the concert and give us...

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Happy Anniversary, Meggie! amandacurtin.com/2023/05/01/…
Happy Anniversary, Meggie!

Happy Anniversary, Meggie!

What a shock to realise that Meggie Duthie Tulloch, red-haired gutting girl of the North Sea, came into the world, bookishly speaking, 10 years ago today. It just doesn’t seem so long ago to me. I …

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In concert amandacurtin.com/2023/04/17/…
In concert

In concert

I love the way artists of different artforms and genres draw inspiration from each other in the creation of new works, adaptations, reinventions, collaborations. Think of the many paintings inspire…

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Precious… amandacurtin.com/2023/04/03/…
Precious…

Precious…

My father died recently, and I have spent a lot of time among the personal possessions he left behind, sorting, gifting, recycling, discarding, and thinking about what makes something ‘precious’—pr…

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‘The marriage of Elspeth and Francis might be considered an embodiment of the intersection of cultures—in this case, Francis’s Singaporean Eurasian culture and Elspeth’s Anglo-Australian culture.’ amandacurtin.com/2023/03/03/…
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Talking (new) fiction: Simone Lazaroo’s Between Water and the Night Sky amandacurtin.com/2023/03/03/…

Talking (new) fiction: Simone Lazaroo’s Between Water and the Night Sky

The work of three writers most influenced me in the years when I was studying literature and writing, all the while daring to hope I might one day be able to write, myself. Those three writers were…

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Hello 2023 amandacurtin.com/2023/01/01/…

Hello 2023

I suppose I should say farewell to 2022, but I don’t actually feel it deserves the courtesy. But here we are on the first day of a new year and I, for one, am hopeful it will be one to remember—in …

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It’s that season again… amandacurtin.com/2022/12/19/…
It’s that season again…

It’s that season again…

Visit the post for more.

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The 2022 AACTA Award for Best Sound in a Documentary goes to Jeremy Ashton, Ric Curtain and Xoe Baird for Facing Monsters 🌊🏆
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Talking (new) fiction: Brooke Dunnell’s The Glass House amandacurtin.com/2022/11/01/…

Talking (new) fiction: Brooke Dunnell’s The Glass House

Unpublished manuscript awards such as the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award and the Fogarty Literary Award have brought into the light many new writers with impressive manuscripts. It’s my great p…

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Congratulations to Molly Schmidt, winner of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award! @FremantlePress @CityofFremantle
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2022 Hungerford Award winner amandacurtin.com/2022/10/20/…
2022 Hungerford Award winner

2022 Hungerford Award winner

Huge congratulations to Fremantle writer Molly Schmidt, winner of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award! Molly takes home a cash prize of $25,000, and her winning novel, Salt River Road, will…

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The short and the short of it amandacurtin.com/2022/10/04/…
The short and the short of it

The short and the short of it

What a year 2022 has been for short stories. I began my reading year with Rashida Murphy’s powerful collection The Bonesetter’s Fee (Spineless Wonders), and since then I’ve had the pleasure of read…

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ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlist amandacurtin.com/2022/09/28/…

ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlist

I’m thrilled to see that Robyn Mundy’s brilliant novel Cold Coast has made the shortlist of the prestigious ARA Historical Novel Prize. Congratulations to Robyn and to the two other shortlistees, G…

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Historical novelists longlisted amandacurtin.com/2022/09/20/…

Historical novelists longlisted

The longlists for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize, run by the Historical Novel Society Australasia, were announced last week, and I was absolutely thrilled to see several favourite writers list…

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Bonesetting… amandacurtin.com/2022/07/22/…
Bonesetting…

Bonesetting…

Well, not quite, but I love the word, and The Bonesetter’s Fee is the name of Rashida Murphy’s 2022 collection of short and flash fiction. I began this year’s posts by talking about this one, and s…

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WA Premier’s Book Awards winners amandacurtin.com/2022/06/27/…
WA Premier’s Book Awards winners

WA Premier’s Book Awards winners

Congratulations to the winners of the WA Premier’s Book Awards: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer: Elfie Shiosaki, Homecoming (Magabala Press)Premier’s Prize for Writing for Children: Shirley …

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WA writers shining,,,
Writing WA (@writingwa) profile pictureWriting WA@writingwa7 Jun 2022
'This is a time when good writing — writing that helps us understand ourselves and the world we live in — is vital.' - Sharon Flindell, CEO, Writing WA thewest.com.au/opinion/sharo…
Getting into WA’s flourishing writing scene

Getting into WA’s flourishing writing scene

WA’s most important resources are, in my opinion, above the ground, said Writing WA Chairman Guy Boyce at the launch in February of the Best Australian Yarn short-story competition.

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‘Mary Ann was decried publicly as a bad wife and bad mother…Cath was arrested for using offensive language…I wanted to bring both women out from under the weight of the records.’ Sharron Booth on her debut novel, The Silence of Water amandacurtin.com/2022/06/03/…
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