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'Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote? Abandon Every Hope is a lament, a deranged encyclopedia, and a diary of anxiety. How can anyone document the vastness of violence against animals in a bloated industrial age? Hayley Singer investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse to map the contours of a world cut to pieces by organised and profit-driven death. In her compelling and poetic prose, Singer asks how we may write the life of the dead; the smell of an egg factory; of multispecies PTSD; of planetary harm and self-harm: of the horror we make on earth. Where does the slaughterhouse begin and how can it end?'
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The Stella Prize 2024 : A Reading Guide to the Six Shortlisted Books
2024
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , April 2024;
— Review of Body Friend 2023 single work novel ; The Swift Dark Tide 2023 single work autobiography ; Feast 2023 single work novel ; Abandon Every Hope : Essays for the Dead 2023 selected work essay ; Hospital Arunava Sinha (translator), 2023 single work novel -
Unruliness, Activism and Emotional Intensity: Your Guide to the 2024 Stella Prize Shortlist
2024
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 May 2024;'For more than a decade now, the Stella Prize, an award celebrating Australian women’s writing, has been changing Australia’s literary landscape. It has taken a monkey wrench to the way literary esteem is bestowed in this country. Its annual whack has shifted the calibration of what kinds of books are valued.' (Introduction)
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[Book Review] Hayley Singer's Abandon Every Hope
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology , March no. 10 2024;
— Review of Abandon Every Hope : Essays for the Dead 2023 selected work essay 'Most of the ever-growing body of creative and critical literature that explores human and nonhuman animal relationships addresses the various ways that humans think about and connect to living beings. Scholars focus on the lives of kin and the ways that humans have exploited or preserved our interdependencies with both domestic and wild nonhuman beings. The discipline of animal studies over decades has emboldened discussions about and activism towards the rights of nonhuman animals, working incrementally towards nonhuman animal rights to habitat, shelter, food, voice and a life and death with dignity. For nonhuman animals to someday enjoy the same rights as homo sapiens remains at the forefront of scholarly and activist efforts. Few writers enter the territory of how humans and nonhumans share death. Hayley Singer’s collection of ‘essays for the dead’ opens hearts, minds and souls to this important junction by drawing attention to the scourge of industrial-scaled deaths in abattoirs and slaughterhouses.' (Introduction)
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[Book Review] Hayley Singer's Abandon Every Hope
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology , March no. 10 2024;
— Review of Abandon Every Hope : Essays for the Dead 2023 selected work essay 'Most of the ever-growing body of creative and critical literature that explores human and nonhuman animal relationships addresses the various ways that humans think about and connect to living beings. Scholars focus on the lives of kin and the ways that humans have exploited or preserved our interdependencies with both domestic and wild nonhuman beings. The discipline of animal studies over decades has emboldened discussions about and activism towards the rights of nonhuman animals, working incrementally towards nonhuman animal rights to habitat, shelter, food, voice and a life and death with dignity. For nonhuman animals to someday enjoy the same rights as homo sapiens remains at the forefront of scholarly and activist efforts. Few writers enter the territory of how humans and nonhumans share death. Hayley Singer’s collection of ‘essays for the dead’ opens hearts, minds and souls to this important junction by drawing attention to the scourge of industrial-scaled deaths in abattoirs and slaughterhouses.' (Introduction) -
The Stella Prize 2024 : A Reading Guide to the Six Shortlisted Books
2024
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , April 2024;
— Review of Body Friend 2023 single work novel ; The Swift Dark Tide 2023 single work autobiography ; Feast 2023 single work novel ; Abandon Every Hope : Essays for the Dead 2023 selected work essay ; Hospital Arunava Sinha (translator), 2023 single work novel -
Unruliness, Activism and Emotional Intensity: Your Guide to the 2024 Stella Prize Shortlist
2024
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 May 2024;'For more than a decade now, the Stella Prize, an award celebrating Australian women’s writing, has been changing Australia’s literary landscape. It has taken a monkey wrench to the way literary esteem is bestowed in this country. Its annual whack has shifted the calibration of what kinds of books are valued.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2024 shortlisted The Stella Prize