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Stephen Wright Stephen Wright i(6413700 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Stephen Wright lives in Nimbin on a landsharing community. In 2015, he was writer-in-residence for the Mesmerism new music festivals. In 2017, he was working as a counsellor in a not-government organisation running men's behaviour change programs.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2015 shortlisted The Fair Australia Prize Essay Prize For 'Setting Yourself on Fire'.
2014 shortlisted The Calibre Prize for the essay 'Blows upon a Bruise'.
2009 winner Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon A Second Life Sydney : Seizure , 2017 11647343 2017 single work novella

'In a tiny book-lined office backing onto a supermarket in a small town in northern New South Wales, a woman named Acker sits smoking a cigarette and listening to the music of Philip Glass. Others come to her with their stories of violence and pain and through her writing she attempts to salvage what they have lost. A Second Life immerses the reader in a world that is both familiar and forbidding. It unfolds with horror and beauty to reveal a complicated and unforgettable portrait of a woman who moves through this world carrying secret histories, different ways of seeing, and many stories. 

'With a narrative voice that is at once eerily beautiful and slightly wild, and a premise that is surreal and ambitious, A Second Life stood out to me immediately. It's an exploration of the self and life and death, all of which comprise the psychological fabric of the main character, who occupies many selves and sometimes none at all.' (Publication summary)

2018 shortlisted The Woollahra Digital Literary Award Fiction
2017 joint winner Viva La Novella Award
‘The Most Fucking Intense, Crazy, Rock ’n’ Roll Thing You Could Be Writing about’ 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 220 2015; (p. 85-90)

'In the summer of 2013 I had a nightmare. At that time the cities of Australia were scorching in temperatures in the forties and immense bushfires had come to ravage the southern part of the continent year after year. For months I had been plagued by dreams of pursuit and murder, and in the unbearable summer heat my mind drifted in and out of sleep like flotsam near a desolate shore. I had thrown off the thin sheet covering me and in the midst of a dream in which I was haunted by a fear that I could not place, I heard someone outside of it say the word halal in a sinister tone and I woke up. The room was empty of course, but I was convinced that there had been someone standing over my bed.' (85)

2015 joint winner The Fair Australia Prize Essay Prize
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