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Kate Murdoch

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Melbourne, Australia
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kate Grenville, Zadie Smith, Doris Lessing.

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April 2016


Artist turned writer Kate Murdoch is the author of Stone Circle (2017) and The Orange Grove (2019).

Her short-form fiction has been published in literary journals and anthologies in Australia, UK, US and Canada.

Stone Circle was a First in Category winner in the Chaucer Awards 2018 for pre-1750’s historical fiction. The Orange Grove was a finalist in the Chaucer Awards 2019 for pre-1750’s historical fiction.

Kate was awarded a KSP Fellowship at the KSP Writers’ Centre in 2019. In 2024, she will travel to France for a writing residency at the Chateau d'Orquevaux.


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Kate Murdoch A story about a girl orphaned by the 1908 Messina earthquake in Sicily who is adopted by a wealthy Palermo family.
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Come along this Saturday and join Bella Ellwood-Clayton, Dani Netherclift, Andrea Barton and me, share a glass of champagne and buy a signed copy of our books.

Saturday December 14, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

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“The music, the flames, and the night were as much a part of them as the blood coursing through their veins. The pace quickened and they followed, twisting and turning with fluidity.' Stone Circle”
Kate Murdoch, Stone Circle

“The music, the flames, and the night were as much a part of them as the blood coursing through their veins. The pace quickened and they followed, twisting and turning with fluidity.”
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