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1 3 y separately published work icon Hold Your Fire Chloe Wilson , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2021 20775256 2021 selected work short story

'Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us what we usually deny – the uneasy truce we make with our ruthless desires and gothic fears, and how easily it can be broken. Prize-winning author Chloe Wilson’s stories will pin you to the page.

'First published in Granta Magazine, the title story takes us into the cold war of a contemporary family: a missile-making mother doubts her husband’s guts and the steel of her son, until a playground incident escalates and brings them into the most surprising of alliances.

'Needle sharp, effortlessly surprising and beautifully controlled, every story is transfixing. A young couple move into a house in which there’s been a recent murder, and fall under the spell of their peculiar, commanding neighbours. Two sisters are determined to detoxify themselves into perfection. A diver pushes herself and those around her to higher and higher jumps.

'Interspersed with these transfixing tales are lightning strikes of flash fiction: we glimpse a leopard in the apartment next door; plants grown out of a strange and miraculous soil; the spirit of a girl who’s been thrown down a well. At each turn, Chloe Wilson offers a unique insight, a tear in the veil of our comfortable moral certainties.

'Hold Your Fire exposes the battles we wage beneath the surface.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 Regency Romance i "I would have written but I drank my ink in a fit of thirst. My", Chloe Wilson , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry 2020; (p. 184)
1 Damnatio Memoriae i "No one messes with Venice. When", Chloe Wilson , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 40 2019; (p. 131-132)
1 Blonde Landslide i "It’s difficult to find credible,", Chloe Wilson , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 40 2019; (p. 129-130)
1 Hippophobia i "Someone's taint or blot. That's", Chloe Wilson , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 156 2019; (p. 16)
1 The Somnambulist i "I have one life", Chloe Wilson , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , August no. 2 2018;
1 The Memory of Snails Chloe Wilson , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Buying Online : Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2018 2018; (p. 23-27)
1 Phossy Jaw i "White phosphorus was the source", Chloe Wilson , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 7 no. 2 2017; (p. 10)
1 y separately published work icon Return Flight MEL > EDI Elizaveta Maltseva (editor), Megan Anderson (editor), Tony Birch , Chloe Wilson , Roz Bellamy , Clifton Hill : Going Down Swinging , 2017 11999243 2017 anthology prose interview
1 Chloe Wilson Reviews David McCooey Chloe Wilson , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;

'At first, David McCooey’s Star Struck appears to be a collection comprising four sections, each self-contained and corralled from the others. These sections range from a series of lyric poems meditating on a ‘cardiac event’, to poems investigating light and dark, a sequence of eighteen ‘pastorals’ on pop stardom (and fandom) and, finally, two longer narrative poems. A quotation at the beginning of the pastoral sequence seems to hint at the collection’s attitude. From William Empson’s Some Versions of Pastoral, it reads: ‘Probably the cases I take are the surprising rather than the normal ones, and once started on an example I follow it without regard to the unity of the book.’ (Introduction)

1 The First Four Hours i "However blunt the blade was", Chloe Wilson , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017; The Best Australian Poems 2017 2017; (p. 166-167)
1 The Dry Down Chloe Wilson , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Shibboleth & Other Stories : Margaret River Short Story Competiion 2016 2016;
1 Sticky Ink Chloe Wilson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 20 no. 1 2016;

— Review of Exhumed Cassandra Atherton , 2015 selected work poetry ; Trace Cassandra Atherton , 2015 selected work poetry
1 Chloe Wilson Reviews Tracy Ryan and Jill Jones Chloe Wilson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 53.0 2016;

— Review of Hoard Tracy Ryan , 2015 selected work poetry ; Breaking the Days Jill Jones , 2015 selected work poetry
1 The Woman Who Turned into Soap i "It didn’t happen with a snap", Chloe Wilson , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 37 2016; (p. 186)
1 A Shrine to the Fragment Chloe Wilson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 20 no. 2 2016;

— Review of Pulse : Prose Poems 2016 anthology poetry
1 Medico Della Peste i "Picture his visit from the perspective", Chloe Wilson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 5 no. 1 2015; (p. 128-129)
1 Not Fox nor Axe i "This is for you – this rough assembly of memento mori:", Chloe Wilson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2015 2015; (p. 58-60)
1 Ice i "Polar bears have no choice", Chloe Wilson , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Prayers of a Secular World 2015; (p. 38-39)
1 4 y separately published work icon Not Fox nor Axe Chloe Wilson , Melbourne : Hunter Publishers , 2015 9082075 2015 selected work poetry

Women knit at the foot of the guillotine. Hundreds of blackbirds tumble suddenly from the sky. Red Riding Hood's grandmother speaks from the belly of the wolf. Santa Lucia offers you her eyes on a platter. These poems present a panorama, by turns historical, mythical, and modern, of horrors and absurdities both familiar and obscure.

''Perhaps not fox nor axe, but something gives us chase' - and the only thing more difficult than bearing witness is turning away.' (Publication summary)

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