Writing name for: Lisa Bennett
Gender:
Female
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Most Referenced Works
Notes
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Lisa Hannett's Little Digs was set for publication by ChiZine in 2020, before the company's financial and professional issues triggered its reduction (and probable closure) in November 2019.
Awards for Works
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Songs for Dark Seasons
Nedlands
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Ticonderoga Publications
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2020
18569990
2020
selected work
short story
'With a twang in its heart and a song for luck on its tongue, Songs for Dark Seasons takes readers back to the lonesome dream counties introduced in the World Fantasy Award-nominated collection, Bluegrass Symphony.
'Trailer parks and graves are only temporary homes for souls in these tales, where gods dwell in churches and parking lot groves. Friday night football stars mingle with sirens; hunters’ wives help their kids not to shoot, but to fly; Chanticleers spar their way into local government; and rash-afflicted men take dryads for lovers. In backwater towns, some witches have the know-how to pin pageant queens pretty, while others relieve girls of highfalutin aspirations. Local crow-boys and bloodthirsty Ursines are the best miners around.
'In these thirteen stories, forests are imbued with the deepest, saddest strains of country music, cornfield horizons stretch as long as a lone fiddle’s wail, and distant hills make mandolin promises: sweet and catchy and short-lived.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2021 nominated Ditmar Awards — Best Collected Work
- 2020 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Best Collection
Last amended 14 Nov 2019 15:39:20
