![]() ![]() ![]() The mantle of emerging author can be a heavy one, particularly for those whose work has already garnered critical acclaim at manuscript stage. There is an edifying breadth of scope and style here, from the singular artistry of Miles Allinson’s Fever of Animals to the guileless confidence of Murray Middleton’s When There’s Nowhere Else to Run and the confronting domestic drama of The Promise Seed.Īll three are first time authors who have been singled out for recognition – Allinson as winner of the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award, Middleton with the Vogel Literary Award, and Moriarty in the Emerging Author category of the Queensland Literary Awards. These lives are shaped and guided by the pull of responsibility to others the pressures and rewards of family ties, and the ways that family can expand to include those to whom we are not related by blood. In each of these three new works of fiction – two first novels and a debut collection of short stories – characters are confronted by the limits of their control over the trajectories of their own lives. ![]()
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