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Jodi Cleghorn

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Jeanette Winterson; Italo Calvino;

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Jodi is an author and poet (former editor and publisher) with a penchant for the dark vein of humanity. She is the editor of 7 anthologies and publisher of a further 5. Her short stories and poems have appeared in local and international publications.

"Elyora" (also published as "River of Bones"), an Australian gothic horror set in the New England Highlands, is her debut novella (short listed for an Aurealis Award). She is also the co-author of the epistolary serial "Post-Marked: Piper's Reach" with her writing partner Adam Byatt (due for release with Vine Leaves Press 07/19)

Her flash fiction collection "No Need to Reply" was followed by the curated collection "The Heart is an Echo Chamber". "The Starling Requiem", a noir science fiction nov
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Average rating: 4.29 · 454 ratings · 134 reviews · 33 distinct works
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No Need To Reply

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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2024
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Postcardia-cum-Poetica #107

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Image by Thomas Dworzak, Russia, February 2001. Words from Care of the Soul.

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