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Sophie Constable

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Australia

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy

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I love writing speculative and historical fiction and am particularly interested in cross-cultural issues and identity.

My alternate history of Russia in 1939 pitted the rights of an individual child against the stability of the State and was shortlisted in the top six of the Terry Pratchett First Novel prize 2013. My 2011 short story Khmoc set in Cambodia was awarded the NT Literary Award- short story section. I've published short stories in several anthologies. ...more

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	Menial: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction by Kelly Jennings (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shay Darrach (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Angeli Primlani (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind the Wattles by David Vernon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Poole (Contributor), Kerry Lown Whalen (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yellow Pearl: Eighteen Short Stories from the Stringybark Australian History Awards by Sophie Constable (Goodreads Author), Sophie Constable (Goodreads Author) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stew and Sinkers by David Vernon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Debra Booth (Contributor), Silda Trainor (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Writing Beyond the Self

Writing outside your own experience has received a lot of heat recently. This has been both distressing and compulsive viewing for me, because I find imagining the human experience in different contexts as an important way of reaching out and understanding each other, and humanity as whole.I am compelled to do this by exploring the issues in writing, but at the same time, I am afraid, as are many

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In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka

by Kyōka Izumi

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Mar 17, 2015 05:02PM

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“I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.”
― Kate Forsyth

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