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Bronwyn Rodden was born in Sydney, Australia, but now lives on the Mid North Coast of NSW. She won the Patricia Hackett Prize (for short fiction) and was selected for the first New Poets Program Workshop (Scarp). She holds an MA Writing from UTS and her poetry and short fiction have been published in literary journals in Australia and the U.K. and broadcast on radio. She was awarded an Emerging Writer Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and a residency at the Writers Cottage, Bundanon. She was also selected for the QWC/Hachette Publishing manuscript retreat. She released her first novel, The Crushers, on Amazon Kindle and another novel, Life at Sea, was shortlisted for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel of the Year Competition 2012. She ...more

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The Society of Women Writers NSW have recently published a Q&A with me around my career and self-publishing in their Autumn Magazine, Women's Ink.
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