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1 State Library Victoria : A Wellspring for Kick-starting Creativity Didem Caia , Lee Kofman , Nicola Redhouse , Emilie Collyer , Kate Mildenhall , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , December no. 108 2023; (p. 108-115)
1 The Hummingbird Effect : An Extract Kate Mildenhall , 2023 extract novel (The Hummingbird Effect)
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2023;
1 3 y separately published work icon The Hummingbird Effect Kate Mildenhall , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2023 26227419 2023 single work novel

'An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault.

'One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a bagging girl at the Angliss meatworks, a place buzzing with life as well as death, where the gun slaughterman Jack has caught her eye – and she his.

'How is her life connected to Hilda’s, almost a hundred years later, locked inside during a plague, or La’s, further on again, a singer working shifts in a warehouse as her eggs are frozen and her voice is used by AI bots? Let alone Maz, far removed in time, diving for remnants of a past that must be destroyed? Is it by the river that runs through their stories, eternal yet constantly changing – or by the mysterious Hummingbird Project, and the great question of whether the march of progress can ever be reversed?' (Publication summary) 

1 y separately published work icon Live Recording: Anna Downes and Christian White in Conversation Kate Mildenhall (interviewer), Melbourne : Readings , 2021 23567593 2021 single work podcast interview

'A special crime event to celebrate the new novels from authors Christian White(Wild Place)and Anna Downes (The Shadow House). Coincidentally, both novels ask the question: why do good people do bad things?' (Production abstract)

1 5 y separately published work icon The Mother Fault Kate Mildenhall , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2020 19372427 2020 single work novel

'You will not recognise me, she thinks, when I find you . . .

'Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him – especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them ‘safe’.

'But suddenly Ben can’t be tracked. And Mim is questioned, made to surrender her passport and threatened with the unthinkable – her two children being taken into care at the notorious BestLife.

'Cornered, Mim risks everything to go on the run to find her husband – and a part of herself, long gone, that is brave enough to tackle the journey ahead.

'From the stark backroads of the Australian outback to a terrifying sea voyage, Mim is forced to shuck off who she was – mother, daughter, wife, sister – and become the woman she needs to be to save her family and herself.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 What I’m Reading – Kate Mildenhall Kate Mildenhall , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2017;
1 8 y separately published work icon Skylarking Kate Mildenhall , Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2016 9188849 2016 single work novel historical fiction

'Kate and Harriet are best friends who are growing up together on an isolated Australian cape in the 1880s. As daughters of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything, until a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings of envy and longing. Ultimately, a moment of skylarking in McPhail’s hut changes everything.

'Inspired by a true story, Skylarking, reimagines the events learning up to the shooting at Cape St George Lighthouse and the lives of two determined young women coming of age at that point in Australian history.' (Publication summary)

1 A Sensitive Exploration of Homosexuality Kate Mildenhall , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 June 1998; (p. 21)

— Review of Hide and Seek : Stories About Being Young and Gay/Lesbian 1996 anthology short story poetry
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