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'Through a multitude of distinct voices, Gildfind’s startling tales explore the absurd, macabre, surreal – and too-real – whilst wrestling with the irrevocable acts, immutable facts, and relentless uncertainties that lie at the dark heart of every life.' (Publication summary)
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- Also braille.
- Also dyslexic edition
- Also large print.
Works about this Work
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Dark, Sad, Depressing and Perhaps Pointless—yet Another Grant-earning Award-winner for Australia!
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 33 no. 1 2019; (p. 171-173)
— Review of The Worry Front 2018 selected work short story'When reading a critically acclaimed collection of short stories penned by an author "with the support of the Australia Council Grant [that] includes [an] award-winning novella," one has to ask who decides that this particular writer or that this particular set of short stories is worthy of such magnanimous support. Who, in other words, decided that the short novella "Quarry" should win an award, and which award? (It is never mentioned anywhere in or on the book which award "Quarry" won or when). Though the cover blurbs—and there are three of them: two on the back cover, one on the front—use such complimentary phrases as "intense," "visceral" (which is used twice), as well as "surprising," "brilliant," "earthly," and "eloquently," these stories are—according to a blurb on the back cover—simultaneously "unsettling" and "macabre," so much so that a second reading of this collection will not likely be forthcoming.' (Introduction)
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Strange Things : New Australian Short Fiction
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2019;
— Review of The Hunter and Other Stories of Men 2018 selected work short story ; The Butcherbird Stories 2018 selected work short story ; The Worry Front 2018 selected work short story -
Happiness in Repetition
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;'One imagines that thumbtacked to the pinboard above H C Gildfind’s writing desk (or perhaps tattooed on the top of her dominant typing hand) are the words, ‘Happiness is repetition.’ If they hadn’t been quoted midway through the penultimate story of her debut collection The Worry Front (or perhaps misquoted: is this a reduction of Milan Kundera’s well-known ‘happiness is the longing for repetition’? then I’d have been forced to pencil them into the text myself.' (Introduction)
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Strange Things : New Australian Short Fiction
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2019;
— Review of The Hunter and Other Stories of Men 2018 selected work short story ; The Butcherbird Stories 2018 selected work short story ; The Worry Front 2018 selected work short story -
Dark, Sad, Depressing and Perhaps Pointless—yet Another Grant-earning Award-winner for Australia!
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 33 no. 1 2019; (p. 171-173)
— Review of The Worry Front 2018 selected work short story'When reading a critically acclaimed collection of short stories penned by an author "with the support of the Australia Council Grant [that] includes [an] award-winning novella," one has to ask who decides that this particular writer or that this particular set of short stories is worthy of such magnanimous support. Who, in other words, decided that the short novella "Quarry" should win an award, and which award? (It is never mentioned anywhere in or on the book which award "Quarry" won or when). Though the cover blurbs—and there are three of them: two on the back cover, one on the front—use such complimentary phrases as "intense," "visceral" (which is used twice), as well as "surprising," "brilliant," "earthly," and "eloquently," these stories are—according to a blurb on the back cover—simultaneously "unsettling" and "macabre," so much so that a second reading of this collection will not likely be forthcoming.' (Introduction)
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Happiness in Repetition
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;'One imagines that thumbtacked to the pinboard above H C Gildfind’s writing desk (or perhaps tattooed on the top of her dominant typing hand) are the words, ‘Happiness is repetition.’ If they hadn’t been quoted midway through the penultimate story of her debut collection The Worry Front (or perhaps misquoted: is this a reduction of Milan Kundera’s well-known ‘happiness is the longing for repetition’? then I’d have been forced to pencil them into the text myself.' (Introduction)
