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Emily Gallagher Emily Gallagher i(11732556 works by)
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1 Emily Gallagher Review of Cathy Perkins, The Shelf Life of Zora Cross Emily Gallagher , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Biography and History , August no. 5 2021; (p. 259-264)
— Review of The Shelf Life of Zora Cross Cathy Perkins , 2019 single work biography Cathy Perkins’s The Shelf Life of Zora Cross begins with a scene not unfamiliar to readers of Australian literary history: a ‘little schoolgirl’ scribbling away on the ‘splintery verandah’ of her family’s bush home. According to family lore, the nine-year-old had been destined for the inky way long before she gripped her first pencil. An ode was written soon after her birth foretelling her career as a writer, and when the poet Mary Hannay Foott met the two-year-old in 1892 she was impressed to discover the youngster could compose rhymes.

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1 Is Blood Everything? Four New Young Adult Novels Emily Gallagher , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 417 2019; (p. 54-55)
— Review of My Father's Shadow Jannali Jones , 2019 single work novel ; This is How We Change the Ending Vikki Wakefield , 2019 single work novel ; It Sounded Better in My Head Nina Kenwood , 2019 single work novel ; The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling Wai Chim , 2019 single work novel 'A whistleblower’s child hides from a drug ring in the Blue Mountains. A sixteen-year-old rolls through life like an armadillo. A Melbourne high-school graduate wrestles with her insecurities. The daughter of a Chinese restaurateur juggles her responsibility to care for her siblings as her mother’s health deteriorates.' (Introduction)
1 Crawling with Stories : Four New Young Adult Novels Emily Gallagher , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June - July no. 412 2019; (p. 38-39)
— Review of Highway Bodies Alison Evans , 2019 single work novel ; The Honeyman and the Hunter Neil Grant , 2019 single work novel ; Four Dead Queens Astrid Scholte , 2019 single work novel ; How It Feels to Float Helena Fox , 2019 single work novel

'On 20 August 2018 the ABC aired a ‘special literary edition’ of Q&A during the Melbourne Writers Festival. It had a stellar line-up: John Marsden, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Sofie Laguna, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, and Trent Dalton. Viewers must have been optimistic. Were Q&A’s producers indulging in a long hour of lively literary debate? Unfortunately, they were not. But even though politics overshadowed much of the discussion that evening, the panellists made a considerable effort to draw on their expertise as writers rather than as political commentators when answering questions from the audience.' (Introduction)
1 A Love of the Past Emily Gallagher , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly Blog , August 2017;
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