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Jennifer Severn

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Memoir, Fiction

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Jennifer Severn’s manuscript Long Road to Dry River was shortlisted for the Finch Prize for Memoir in 2018. Her novella manuscript Garnet was short-listed for the Viva la Novella prize in 2022. Now novel-length, Garnet will be published by Vine Leaves Press in early 2026.

Her story ‘Nobody Owns a Fire’, one of eight linked stories that comprise Garnet, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024.

She has contributed to Wordgathering, a digital anthology published by Syracuse University, New York State, US, and fourW, an annual anthology of prose and poetry published by the Booranga Centre at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia.

Her work has also featured on the ABC Country Hour program and Edge FM.

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What We Can Know

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Jennifer Severn said: " Lionel Shriver's usual brilliance and refusal to avert her eyes from the big issues.
British couple Kay and Cyril Wilkinson, in their 50s and in a very happy marriage but dealing with Kay's parents as they descend into the sorrows of dementia, form a ...more "

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A young girl in ninth century France, in love with God, languages and learning, sees a way out of the predestined marriage and motherhood route when she meets a liberal Benedictine monk and escapes her father's house dressed in cassock and cowl. Her ...more
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How lovely to be back in Faha, even if the rain is back. There's a child, eventually, and it turns the lives of Dr Jack Troy and his daughter Ronnie upside down. Nothing stays secret in a small town like Faha - well, not for long. And nothing much ha ...more
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