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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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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”
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