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Emma Ashmere Emma Ashmere i(A36267 works by) (a.k.a. Emma Dorothy Ashmere)
Also writes as: Emma Hartwood ; Emma Hopton
Born: Established: Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

'Emma Ashmere has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, and a PhD in English from La Trobe University. In 2011 she was living in northern New South Wales.'

Source: Biography courtesy of author.

For additional works not individually indexed on AustLit, see Notes.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Emma Ashmere has also published the following works, which are not individually indexed on AustLit:

    • 'Delma's Collection', Artlink: Taste Meets Kitsch, Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 15.4 (1995): 35-36.
    • 'The House of Asha' (flash fiction), second place in the Inner City Life Short Story Competition (2011) from the Australian Writers Network. (Story available here: http://www.irinadunn.com.au/inner-city-life-2011-winners).
    • 'The Sketchers', National Gallery of Victoria Magazine 6 (Sep-Oct 2017), pp.20-21. A commissioned writer response to Grace Cossington-Smith's 'The Bridge In-curve'.
    • An untitled eight-word story, published on digital billboards around Brisbane in the week of 13 November, as part of the #8wordstory competition run by Queensland Writers Centre (https://8wordstory.com/).
    • 'Nightfall', shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, was subsequently published on Adda, the online magazine associated with Commonwealth Writers (https://www.addastories.org/nightfall/)
  • In addition to reviews individually indexed on AustLit, the following reviews of Emma Ashmere's work have also appeared:

    • Lisa Walker, 'Local Author’s Debut Novel Impresses' [review of The Floating Garden], Northern Rivers Echo, 21 May 2015, p.20.
    • Cameron Woodhead, 'In Short Fiction', Spectrum [SMH], 16-17 May 2015, p.32.

Personal Awards

2024 finalist The Joanne Burns Award National category
2021 shortlisted The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for 'Missing'.
2019 highly commended Newcastle Short Story Award for 'A Thousand Eyes'.

Awards for Works

Stigmata 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Travel : An Anthology of Microlit 2022; (p. 105)
2022 finalist The Joanne Burns Award
The Historic Present 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Dreams They Forgot 2020; (p. 82-83)
2017 finalist The Joanne Burns Award
Nightfall 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Dreams They Forgot 2020; (p. 17-31)
2019 finalist Commonwealth Short Story Prize
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