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Annette Marfording Annette Marfording i(8686256 works by)
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1985
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1 Telling Their Story Straight : Annette Marfording Reviews ‘Not Just Black and White’ by Lesley and Tammy Williams Annette Marfording , 2016 single work
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 18 2016;
— Review of Not Just Black and White Lesley Williams , Tammy Williams , 2015 single work biography
1 Great Humanity and Human Decency : Annette Marfording Reviews ‘The Simplest Words : A Storyteller’s Journey’ by Alex Miller Annette Marfording , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , January - March no. 17 2016;
— Review of The Simplest Words : A Storyteller's Journey Alex Miller , 2015 selected work short story prose autobiography poetry
1 Sticking to the Familiar Annette Marfording , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , January - March no. 17 2016;
— Review of The Best Australian Stories 2015 2015 anthology short story
1 An Eclectic Range of Subject Matter Annette Marfording , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , January - March no. 17 2016;
— Review of The Best Australian Essays 2015 2015 anthology essay
1 “It Takes Time and Patience to Be a Good Detective” Annette Marfording , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , January - March no. 17 2016;
— Review of Detective Work : Who Killed Renee Summers? John Dale , 2015 single work novel
1 Room for Reflection : Annette Marfording Reviews ‘Here Where We Live’ by Cassie Flanagan Willanski Annette Marfording , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October – December no. 20 2016; 'Willanski has extensive experience as an environmental volunteer and campaigner as well as a degree in environmental studies from the University of Adelaide, and this collection of short stories, which won the Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript award in 2014, reflects this interest. The collection includes eight short stories and one novella. Rather than falling within the traditional short story genre, however, her stories are offerings of moments of life, often those where mostly female characters face uncertainty, are at a turning point and come to a realisation about what it is that they desire from their lives and how that may affect their relationships. In addition to these environmental and human concerns – which ground the title of the book –, many of the stories are linked to Willanski’s research for her Master of Arts degree ‘about the ways white Australians have written about (and for) Indigenous people’ and her discoveries about white people’s attitudes to Indigenous people, as she explains in her author’s note. As a result, in several stories characters ask each other or themselves whether they are racist, in others, white characters learn about Indigenous history or historical events affecting Aboriginal people.' (Introduction)
1 Intensity and Focus : Annette Marfording Reviews ‘Griffith Review 54, Earthly Delights: The Novella Project IV’ Annette Marfording , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October – December no. 20 2016;
— Review of Griffith Review no. 54 2016 periodical issue 'As the subtitle suggests, this is the fourth year in which Griffith Review has dedicated its annual fiction edition to the novella, ‘those stories’, as editor Julianne Schultz put it in her introduction to the first edition in 2012, ‘that are longer and more complex than a short story, shorter than a novel, with fewer plot twists, but strong characters. Condensed tales that are intense, detailed, often grounded in the times, and perfectly designed for busy people to read in one sitting.’ By undertaking its novella project, Griffith Review has made a significant contribution to the revival of the novella form. Seizure runs an annual Viva La Novella competition, publishing its first winner in 2013 and some individual short fiction collections now include novellas, such as Here where we live by Cassie Flanagan Willanski and Australia Day by one of the contributors to Earthly Delights, Melanie Cheng, which won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.' (Introduction)
1 Annette Marfording’s Best Reads of 2015 Annette Marfording , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015;
1 Gregory Day : Archipelago of Souls Annette Marfording , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2015;
— Review of Archipelago of Souls Gregory Day , 2015 single work novel
1 Mireille Juchau : The World Without Us Annette Marfording , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2015;
— Review of The World Without Us Mireille Juchau , 2015 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Celebrating Australian Writing : Conversations with Australian Authors Annette Marfording (editor), Bellingen : Annette Marfording , 2015 8686271 2015 anthology interview

'It’s time. Time to bury the cultural cringe, time to celebrate Australian writing, and time to discover Australian writers.

These in-depth conversations with contemporary Australian authors delve into their body of work, central themes, strengths, writing methods and what they perceive as central tips for aspiring writers.' (Publication summary)
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