Elisa Cristallo
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Elisa Cristallo

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Born
Australia
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Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction

Member Since
June 2015


Elisa Cristallo is a writer living and working in Australia. Her dystopian novel ‘The Last Famine’ was shortlisted for the ACT Literary Awards in 2024 and received “highly commended” recognition in the fiction category.

Elisa also wrote the mini-series ‘Welcome to the Family’ which aired on Channel 31 (Melbourne Community TV) and earned four Antenna Award nominations. Her short story 'Mrs Ziotto’s Three Hundred Dollars' was published in the literary journal Verity La.

Elisa is a two-time recipient of Blacktown Council’s Creative Arts fund; a recipient of Culture Bank's Arts grant and served on the board of the arts organisation ‘Voices of Women’.

Elisa holds a Bachelor of Social Science majoring in Criminology from Western Sydney University ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Elisa Cristallo I normally set aside time in my schedule to write – just like any other work. If I'm not in the mood to write the part of a story I had scheduled to w…moreI normally set aside time in my schedule to write – just like any other work. If I'm not in the mood to write the part of a story I had scheduled to write that day, I don’t force it. I’ll move on and write something else, a different section, a different character or even a different story if I feel like it.
If I’m not in the mood to concrete on anything substantive at all there are a few little writing exercises I do. One is to just write some dialogue between two characters, normally in the format of a scene of a play – because I write a lot for the stage I’m really comfortable with this type of writing. Nothing I write down is likely to end up in the story but it helps me to develop characters and sometimes it sparks a new idea.
The most important thing for me is not to give up on my writing time for that day and have an early vino! If I have set aside time to write, even if nothing is flowing very well, I try to find a way to make the time productive. Then maybe have a vino.(less)
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I went to a masterclass a few years ago where the advice was that to make a living as an artist you need to been working on seven different projects a…more
I went to a masterclass a few years ago where the advice was that to make a living as an artist you need to been working on seven different projects at any one time. To me that seems like a lot but I do appreciate that you have to have more than one active project at a time otherwise you may miss opportunity and/or fail to develop your skills over a period of time.

At the moment I’m in the infancy stages of a new novel, set in Sydney, some years into the future with several point of view characters. Like all my work I hope to be developing characters that have shades light and darkness, truthfully captures the cultural diversity of a time and place and promotes complex female characters. My other projects include two plays that will be produced in Sydney in early 2016.
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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
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The Lasting Harm by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell
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I listened to the audiobook version of The Lasting Harm, which is a first-hand, non-fiction account of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.

The word that comes to mind to describe this book is care. There is such care given to the victims - their stories and ...more
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The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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All Fours
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The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell
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The Thistle and The Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor
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