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1 2 form y separately published work icon Run Rabbit Run Hannah Kent , ( dir. Daina Reid ) Australia : Carver Films , 2022 19573908 2022 single work film/TV thriller horror

'Sarah (Snook) is a divorced fertility doctor whose daughter, Mia, begins acting strangely on the eve of her seventh birthday. The girl’s disturbing drawings, fierce attachment to a cardboard rabbit face mask and sudden insistence that her name is Alice drive Sarah to despair and towards a reckoning with her troubled past.'

Source: Sydney Film Festival. 

1 Show Your Working : Hannah Kent Hannah Kent , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2021;
4 11 y separately published work icon Devotion Hannah Kent , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2021 22127333 2021 single work novel historical fiction

'Prussia, 1836

'Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature — she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity...until she meets Thea.

'Ocean, 1838

'The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at odds with their King's order for reform. Forced to flee religious persecution the families of Kay board a crowded, disease-riddled ship bound for the new colony of South Australia. In the face of brutal hardship, the beauty of whale song enters Hanne's heart, along with the miracle of her love for Thea. Theirs is a bond that nothing can break.

'The whale passed. The music faded.

'South Australia, 1838

'A new start in an old land. God, society and nature itself decree Hanne and Thea cannot be together. But within the impossible ... is devotion.

'This long-awaited novel demonstrates Hannah Kent's sublime ability with language that creates an immersive, transformative experience for the reader. Devotion is a book to savour.' (Publication summary)

1 form y separately published work icon The Good People Hannah Kent , Australia : Aquarius Films , 2018 13195142 2018 single work film/TV
1 Australia in Three Books Hannah Kent , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 75 no. 4 2016; (p. 23-25)
I read Elizabeth Jolley's 'The Well' in the first year of my postgraduate study after recognising, in vague, dispiriting shame, that I was ignorant of most writing by Australian women. I'd fed myself on a steady diet of British and North American writers in the heady days of my first years at university, and while I would have earnestly regarded myself as widely read, a feminist and a lover of literature, I had, in my zealous pursuit of 'culture', entirely neglected my own countrywomen. Feeling embarrassed, I picked up 'The Well' out of dry, almost punitive duty to educate myself about my antipodean literary heritage.' (Publication abstract)
11 17 y separately published work icon The Good People Hannah Kent , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2016 10172836 2016 single work novel historical fiction

'The fires on the hills smouldered orange as the women left, pockets charged with ashes to guard them from the night. Watching them fade into the grey fall of snow, Nance thought she could hear Maggie's voice. A whisper in the dark.

'"Some folk are born different, Nance. They are born on the outside of things, with a skin a little thinner, eyes a little keener to what goes unnoticed by most. Their hearts swallow more blood than ordinary hearts; the river runs differently for them."

'Nóra Leahy has lost her daughter and her husband in the same year, and is now burdened with the care of her four-year-old grandson, Micheál. The boy cannot walk, or speak, and Nora, mistrustful of the tongues of gossips, has kept the child hidden from those who might see in his deformity evidence of otherworldly interference.

'Unable to care for the child alone, Nóra hires a fourteen-year-old servant girl, Mary, who soon hears the whispers in the valley about the blasted creature causing grief to fall upon the widow's house.

'Alone, hedged in by rumour, Mary and her mistress seek out the only person in the valley who might be able to help Micheál. For although her neighbours are wary of her, it is said that old Nance Roche has the knowledge. That she consorts with Them, the Good People. And that only she can return those whom they have taken...' (Publication summary)

1 Hannah Kent and Alex Craig Hannah Kent , Alex Craig , 2014 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Between Us : Women of Letters 2014; (p. 261-271)
24 54 y separately published work icon Burial Rites Hannah Kent , 2013 Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2013 Z1828606 2013 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 1 units)

'In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men.

'Agnes is sent to wait out the time leading to her execution on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderess in their midst, the family avoids speaking with Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes's spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her, as he attempts to salvage her soul. As the summer months fall away to winter and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes's ill-fated tale of longing and betrayal begins to emerge. And as the days to her execution draw closer, the question burns: did she or didn't she?

'Based on a true story, Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about personal freedom: who we are seen to be versus who we believe ourselves to be, and the ways in which we will risk everything for love. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, where every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?' (Publisher's blurb)

1 'Keep Calm and Carry On' : An Unexpected Path to Publication Hannah Kent , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , April no. 13 2013; (p. 9-26)
'Just over two years ago, I was - to put it plainly - shitting myself. It was January 2011, and the novel I needed to write, the historical novel that was to be the creative component of my PhD in Creative Writing at Flinders University, could no longer be avoided. While, in the first few years of my degree, I had managed to stave off my supervisors' queries with promises that I was performing 'very crucial' research into nineteenth-century Iceland, the time had come for me to finally produce my first attempt at a novel. My supervisors, their smiles slipping, were asking to see the goods. My scholarship - my only income - was rapidly drawing to a rude halt. The problem was, I had no idea how to write a book, and that terrified me...' (Publication abstract)
1 A Year of Reading Kerry Greenwood , Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Emily Maguire , Robert Adamson , Brenda Niall , A. P. Riemer , Helen Garner , Peter Carey , Lisa Gorton , John Bradley , Clare Wright , Alexis Wright , Geraldine Brooks , Hannah Kent , Dennis Altman , Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 28-28) The Age , 14 December 2013; (p. 22)
'Australian authors and critics sift through the piles of books they read in 2013 to highlight the treasures they found.'
1 Preoccupations with Ghosts Hannah Kent , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: ACTWrite , September vol. 18 no. 8 2012; (p. 4-6)
'Hannah Kent looks at the development of her manuscript, Burial Rites, and the benefits of mentorships.' (Editor's abstract)
1 Kill Your Darlings in Conversation with Kelly Link Hannah Kent (interviewer), 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , April no. 9 2012; (p. 117-136)
1 Untitled Hannah Kent , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 4 no. 1 2011;

— Review of Animal People Charlotte Wood , 2011 single work novel
1 8 y separately published work icon Kill Your Darlings Rebecca Starford (editor), Hannah Kent (editor), Alan Vaarwerk (editor), 2010 Fitzroy North : Kill Your Darlings , 2010-2017 Z1667520 2010 periodical (29 issues)

Kill Your Darlings publishes fiction, feature articles and investigative journalism, essays and other creative non-fiction, as well as reviews of contemporary books, theatre, music and film are also welcomed.

Kill Your Darlings ceased production of print issues in 2017, and was superceded by Kill Your Darlings [Online] Magazine.

1 [Review] Red Dress Walking Hannah Kent , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 311 2009; (p. 63)

— Review of Red Dress Walking S. A. Jones , 2008 single work novel
1 [Review] Cooee Hannah Kent , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 310 2009; (p. 63)

— Review of Cooee : A Novel Vivienne Kelly , 2008 single work novel
1 [Review] Taking Off Hannah Kent , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 307 2008; (p. 41)

— Review of Taking Off Matt Howard , 2008 single work novel
1 Fiction in Brief Hannah Kent , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 304 2008; (p. 24)

— Review of Yearning for Acceptance Lisha Miller , 2008 single work novel
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