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Category Archives: Australian Women Writers Challenge 2017
AWW2017: Cherry Crow Children by Deborah Kalin
Tulliæn spans a fractured mountaintop, where the locals lie and the tourists come to die. Try the honey. Briskwater crouches deep in the shadow of a dam wall. Ignore the weight of the water hanging overhead, and the little dead … Continue reading
AWW2017: The Female Factory by Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter
In The Female Factory, procreation is big business. Children are a commodity few women can afford. Hopeful mothers-to-be try everything. Fertility clinics. Pills. Wombs for hire. Babies are no longer made in bedrooms, but engineered in boardrooms. A quirk of … Continue reading
AWW2017: Lotus Blue, by Cat Sparks
Seventeen-year-old Star and her sister Nene are orphans, part of a thirteen-wagon caravan of nomadic traders living hard lives travelling the Sand Road. Their route cuts through a particularly dangerous and unforgiving section of the Dead Red Heart, a war-ravaged … Continue reading
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AWW2017: Crossroads of Canopy by Thoraiya Dyer
At the highest level of a giant forest, thirteen kingdoms fit seamlessly together to form the great city of Canopy. Thirteen goddesses and gods rule this realm and are continuously reincarnated into human bodies. Canopy’s position in the sun, however, … Continue reading
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AWW2017: Secret Lives of Books by Rosaleen Love
Secret lives, replete with possibilities. Elsewhere exists as a better place, in a better time, for a better life. The trick is how to get there from here. These stories give the answers. Share in the secret lives of books. … Continue reading
AWW2017: Bitten by Amanda Pillar
The city of Pinton has never been safe…and now a serial killer is on the loose. Doctor Alice Reive is the city’s coroner, and she’s determined to help find the murderer. Enlisting the assistance of the Honorable Dante Kipling and … Continue reading
AWW2017: Asymmetry by Thoraiya Dyer
An Australian Air Force base patrolled by werewolves. A planet where wages are paid in luck. A future where copies are made of criminals to interpret their dark dreams. A medieval cavalry of mothers who are only permitted to take … Continue reading
Australian Women Writers Challenge 2017
I’m signing up again for the Australian Women Writers Challenge for 2017. This year I’m going for the Franklin level again – read at least 10 books by Australian women, and review at least 6.
The Forest of Books 