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Tracey-Anne Forbes

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Go straight to current project: "Dangerous Places"

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Academic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Arts: English Literature and French Language and Literature from the University of Queensland (graduated 1982)
  • Diploma in Education: English and French majors from U.Q. (graduated 1983)
  • Master of Arts (Research): Creative Writing, Q.U.T., 2001 (in progress)

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    Publications:

    Fiction:

  • “Pure as Pain” in The Sunday Mail, Oct. 19, 1975
  • “Currents” in Imago, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1994
  • “Choice” in LiNQ, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1994
  • “Juliet of the Underworld” in Muse, No. 154, August 1996
  • “Cries Across the Dark Water” in LiNQ, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1996
  • “Of Mice and Men” in Idiom 23, Vol. 10, No. 2, January 1998 (This story was commended in the 1997 Bauhinia Awards)
  • “Hair” in Imago, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1998
  • “The Mistral” (an extract from The Sandcastle Thieves), in Imago, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1999
  • “Great Expectations” (an extract from White Flowers Falling), in Imago, Vol 13, No. 3, 2001 (to be published)

    Poetry:

  • “Schoolies’ Week” in Muse, No. 153, July, 1996
  • “Return Trip” in Redoubt, 23, 1996
  • “Huntress” in Muse, No. 160, April, 1997
  • “Rites of Passage” in Redoubt, 25, 1997
  • “New Year’s Day” in Imago, Vol 13, No. 2, 2001 (to be published)

    Novels completed:

  • "Honey Dew and Blue Glass" (c. 1990)
  • "The Sandcastle Thieves" (c. 1999)
  • "The Myth and the Madonna" (c. 2000)

    Novels in progress:

  • "Dangerous Places" Read the first chapter of this novel
  • "White Flowers Falling"

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    Professional development:

  • 1990: fiction workshop with Rosie Scott (full day);
  • 1991: Meanjin Teachers-who-write weekend at Springbrook, with Nigel Krauth.
  • 1996: Advanced Fiction workshop with Venero Armanno (weekend);
  • 1997: poetry workshop with David Reiter (full day)

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    Professional associations:

  • Membership of Q.W.C. since its inauguration
  • Membership of Q.W.C. writers’ group - Novels in Progress - since 1996
  • Brisbane Writers’ Festival volunteer
  • Subscription to Imago and, until recently, Island

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