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Chloe Wilson Chloe Wilson i(A77997 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Chloe Wilson was selected to be part of the 2009 Macquarie Group Foundation LongLines Varuna Workshop in Poetry. She is a former poetry editor for Voiceworks. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2019 winner The Newcastle Poetry Prize for Soft Serve
2019 winner Iowa Short Fiction Award for Tongue-Tied
2019 longlisted Peter Carey Short Story Award for 'Joy Riders'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Hold Your Fire Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2021 20775256 2021 selected work short story

'Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us what we usually deny – the uneasy truce we make with our ruthless desires and gothic fears, and how easily it can be broken. Prize-winning author Chloe Wilson’s stories will pin you to the page.

'First published in Granta Magazine, the title story takes us into the cold war of a contemporary family: a missile-making mother doubts her husband’s guts and the steel of her son, until a playground incident escalates and brings them into the most surprising of alliances.

'Needle sharp, effortlessly surprising and beautifully controlled, every story is transfixing. A young couple move into a house in which there’s been a recent murder, and fall under the spell of their peculiar, commanding neighbours. Two sisters are determined to detoxify themselves into perfection. A diver pushes herself and those around her to higher and higher jumps.

'Interspersed with these transfixing tales are lightning strikes of flash fiction: we glimpse a leopard in the apartment next door; plants grown out of a strange and miraculous soil; the spirit of a girl who’s been thrown down a well. At each turn, Chloe Wilson offers a unique insight, a tear in the veil of our comfortable moral certainties.

'Hold Your Fire exposes the battles we wage beneath the surface.'

Source : publisher's blurb

2022 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award
2022 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
Hippophobia i "Someone's taint or blot. That's", 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 156 2019; (p. 16)
2018 second place Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize
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