Adrienne Sallay

Short Story Awards

geraldinel — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:55:15 +0000

21/09/2008 2008 FAW Manly Peninsula Short Story First Prize
“Napalm”

21/09/2008 2008 FAW Manly Peninsula Short Story Commended
“Recovery”

16/02/2005 2004 National Literary Awards, FAW Victoria Second Prize
FAW Malvern News Sheet
Community Writers’ Award
Short Story Anthology
“The World Is No Longer What It Seems”

15/11/2004 Macquarie University Postgraduate First Prize
Prose and Poetry Competition
Short Story 2000 words
“Redemption”

17/10/2004 Southern Cross Literary Competition Ballarat Third Prize
Short Story Section 2000 words
“Someone Else’s War”

23/05/2002 Glen Eira Literary Awards Commended
“Just a Job”

5/07/2001 Wimmera Regional Library Corporation Commended
Short Story Competition

15/05/2001 Yellow Moon 9 Literary Competition 2001 Second Prize
Haibun (A Haiku Journey) 600 words
“Lemon Year”

7/5/2001 Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Inc Highly Commended
2001 Short Story Competition 2000 words
“Beef Stew”

2/5/2001 2001 Glen Eira Literary Awards Shortlisted
Caulfield RSL ‘My Brother Jack’ Short Story Award
1500-3000 words
“Dave OO7 Bond”

22/2/2001 Midlands Vacation Literary Competition Commended
2000 word Short Story
“Unfathomable”

17/2/2001 Fellowship of Australian Writers (Victoria) Highly Commended
National Literary Awards 2000
FAW Community Writers’ award for a group anthology
“Hard Proof and Other Stories”

9/12/2000 Fellowship of Australian Writers Commended
(Manly Pacific Region) 3000 word Short Story award
“May Lin”

Published Short Stories

geraldinel — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:47:27 +0000

“The Yellow Sarong”. Philament. Sydney University: June 2009.
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/issue14_pdfs/SALLAY_yellow%20sarong.pdf

“Moroccan Bathhouse.” Emerge: New Australian Writing. Eds. Phillip Edmonds and Dominique Wilson. Rundle Mall, S.A.: Wet Ink Magazine Inc., 2006. 111-119.

“Triage.” Confessions and Memoirs. Eds. David Myers and Michael Wilding. Best Stories Under the Sun. Vol. 3. Rockhampton: Central Queensland UP, 2006. 64-72.

“Redemption.” MUPRA 2005 Survival Guide. Macquarie University Postgraduate Representative Association. 15-17.
“Lemon Year.” Yellow Moon. 9, 2001. 14-16.

Published Essays

geraldinel — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:19:26 +0000

Published Essays:

“Haircut in Three Parts”. Hair. Boccalatte, Suzanne and Meredith Jones, eds. Trunk Series. Boccalatte, Surry Hills, NSW, 2009. 161-163.

“Tweed Jackets and Virgin Sock-washers: The Short Story in the 1970s”. Adelaide, Debra and David Brooks, eds. Southerly 68 2 (2008): 181- 94.

“A Writer’s Guide to Venice.” NewsWrite. Dec. 2000. Rozelle: NSW Writers’ Centre. 12-13.

Bio Adrienne Sallay

geraldinel — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:13:17 +0000

Adrienne Sallay attended North Sydney Girls’ High School, and Sydney (Bachelor of Science, Dip Ed.), University of Technology (as Tech College: Librarianship), Charles Sturt (Master of Ed.) and Macquarie (PhD) Universities. She has completed a doctorate in English, is married with two grown-up sons and lives at Roseville. Over the last 10 years she has received numerous community and university awards for her fiction. She has worked as a high school teacher, as a primary, secondary and tertiary librarian and as a lecturer at Macquarie University. She is currently working as a facilitator with community reading & writing groups and as a novelist in her spare time.

Currently Working On:

Loaded Hearts (2008) is Adrienne’s first completed novel. Spanning four continents, three decades and two generations, it delves into family secrets, the counter culture, identity, place and belonging. White Wedding, her second novel, is a domestic drama examining blissful wedding preparations and their aftermath. Adrienne is also developing a collection of short stories, The Change Room, written into a discontinuous narrative and weaving together the tales of six women who attend aquarobics at the local pool each morning.

Recent Publications and Prizes:

“Napalm.” First prize, Manly-Peninsular FAW short story competition, September 2008.
“Recovery.” Commended, Manly-Peninsular FAW short story competition, September 2008.
“Haircut in Three Parts.” Hair. Boccalatte, Suzanne and Meredith Jones, eds. Trunk Series. Boccalatte, Surry Hills, NSW, 2008
“Virgin Sock-Washers and Tweed Jackets.” Adelaide, Debra and David Brooks, eds. Southerly 68 2 (2008): 181- 94.
“Triage.” Confessions and Memoirs. Best Stories Under the Sun, eds David Myers and Michael Wilding. Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 2006. 64-72.
“Moroccan Bathhouse.” Emerge: New Australian Writing. Eds Phillip Edmonds and Dominique Wilson. Rundle Mall, S.A.: Wet Ink Magazine, 2006. 111-119.
“Redemption.” MUPRA 2005 Survival Guide. Macquarie University Postgraduate Representative Association, 2005. 15-17.
“Lemon Year.” Yellow Moon. 9, 2001. V 9, Oct. 2001: 4-5.
“A Writer’s Guide to Venice.” NewsWrite. Dec. 2000. Rozelle: NSW Writers’ Centre.

Qualifications:

PhD, Creative Writing, 2008 Macquarie University

Master of Education with Distinction, 1993

Graduate Diploma of Education, 1991

Librarianship Certificate 1972, Sydney Technical College

Teachers’ Certificate 1965, Sydney Teachers’ College

Bachelor of Science, Sydney University, 1964.

Book Review

geraldinel — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:48:22 +0000

This delightful book, based on well-researched material, provides colourful visuals and useful insights that elevate women’s craftworks. Like my friend, Reet, who celebrates the art of drawn-thread work with a group of women that meets each week to work on the curtains for their Estonian church, women use crafts as a way of preserving cultural heritage, connecting, creating, giving and staying sane.

Essays

geraldinel — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:45:07 +0000

The word “scratchings” also invokes a hastiness, an unedited, first-thoughts approach to one’s work; perhaps even a sort of illiteracy. Viidikas’ use of the metaphor might imply a view of her early work as unpolished, indicating that she undervalued her work in those years. She had amassed some two hundred and fifty typed short pieces which, according to Wilding, she kept in a suitcase under her bed.

Novels

geraldinel — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:05:16 +0000

He pulled the rest of the fabric from the tangle on the table and shook it out. Light as a breath, the cloth billowed into the air and shimmered. Long afterwards, whenever Maxine thought about their meeting, it was framed in blue with specks of gold and purple floating across her vision of Wayan, standing so straight, bringing her future to her on a wave of coloured silk.

Published Short Stories

geraldinel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:43:40 +0000

His hands, hardened from carrying the gun, torn from thorns, bitten by mosquitoes and sucked by leeches, moved down the calf of her leg. He dribbled water onto her knee. Massaged her ankle. Somehow he was licking her, he was following the trail of water with his tongue. Up her calf, over her knee, along her thigh. The musky taste of her overtook him.