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This is one of the most substantial and memorable collections of short fiction by an Australian writer that I have read for a very long time.  
​Kerryn Goldsworthy
My favourite short story collection of the year ... utterly brilliant.    Simon Savidge














    

THIS TASTE FOR SILENCE

9/20/2024

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THIS TASTE FOR SILENCE was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in the UK. 
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First Prize!

9/2/2024

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I'm absolutely delighted to have been awarded First Place in the 2024 Write By The Sea Writing Competition in Ireland for my story, "After My Father". I'm only sorry that I can't be in lovely Wexford for the accompanying literary festival in late September. Looking forward to seeing my story published in beautiful literary journal, The Waxed Lemon, soon. ​https://writebythesea.ie
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Novel Excerpt Longlisted!

7/16/2024

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I'm really delighted that a 5000w section of my novel ms has been longlisted in Uncharted Magazines's Novel Excerpt Contest.
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Amanda is writing a novel ....

6/16/2023

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Thank you for your interest in my writing.
I'm busy writing a novel at the moment.
​I'll post here again when it's done. 


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Best feeling ever!

3/13/2022

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Sitting up in bed with a painful, swollen face after an unexpectedly traumatic visit to the dentist, I felt well enough to catch up on some of Simon Savidge's always excellent "Savidge Reads" book reviews on Youtube. Simon is the UK's foremost book blogger, and has praised my collection in the past. In this particular episode he was celebrating the five year anniversary of his hugely successful channel, "Savidge Reads". I got such a shock when he held up my book, THIS TASTE FOR SILENCE, and said it was the only short story collection on his five-year favourites list, and that the book was "the best collection [he'd] ever read...possibly ever."
​Wow! Horror dental trip forgotten. What a great feeling! 

​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO73F7SxiVg
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    Amanda O'Callaghan is an award-winning writer of short stories and flash fiction. She has been published and won awards in Australia, Ireland and the UK.

    Debut collection,
    ​This Taste for Silence
    ​University of Queensland Press (UQP, 2019)


    TWITTER: @ocallaghanac
    EMAIL: [email protected]

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