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#18: Weightlessness by Karen Hitchcock
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#18: Weightlessness by Karen Hitchcock

I first came accross Karen Hitchcock in Best Australian Stories 2006, and she has been in every edition of  Best Australian Stories since. This is not by chance; reading Karen Hitchcock's work, you are drawn in from the first line. She takes her motivations from marginal people, and by this I mean people who find the very act of living throws them to the margins: people who have distant husbands; people who eat for comfort and protection; people who struggle to connect with 'difficult' fathers...

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#1: Scar Tissue by Patrick Cullen
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#1: Scar Tissue by Patrick Cullen

I recently attended a salon celebrating some seriously talented writers, including Emily MaguireSteven Amsterdam and Kalinda Ashton. The final writer was Patrick Cullen , who I had first read in 2007; it was this same writer that I feverishly sought immediately after the Salon, to soak up his words in a new light...

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