Cate Kennedy

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residence = Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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Cate Kennedy is an author born in Louth, Lincolnshire, England who moved to Australia in her childhood. She graduated from University of Canberra and has also taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne. [Kizilos (2005)] . She currently resides in north-east Victoria.cite web |title= The richer, the poorer by Katherine Kizilos |publisher= The Age |url= http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/the-richer-the-poorer/2005/08/22/1124562798814.html |accessdate= 2007-07-16]

Kennedy's writing has appeared in such publications as "The New Yorker", "Crime Factory", "Redoubt", "Phoenix Review" and "Blast Magazine". She has twice won The Age Short Story Competition. Other stories have won the HQ-Sceptre Short Story Award, and the University of Canberra Short Story Prize.

Literary career

Cate Kennedy started writing as a teenager, when she won the school section of "The Canberra Times" short story award. She went on to study professional writing in Canberra "and stopped writing, as everyone does; analysis takes all the joy and mystery out of it".Sullivan (2006)] Her tutors included Australian writers Rodney Hall and Frank Moorhouse.

She returned to writing short stories when she was in her thirties and working as a librarian in Daylesford. While there, she entered the Scarlet Stiletto short story prize run by Sisters in Crime. She entered two stories and won. The win encouraged her to return to short story writing and, while she experienced many rejections, she kept writing.

She moved to Mexico with her then partner, working for two years with Australian Volunteers International. This experience resulted in her first collection of poetry, "Signs of other Fires" which was published in 2001 and highly commended in the Victorian Premier's Awards. After this period, she returned to Australia where she married a farmer and settled in Benalla.

She told the Australian journalist, Jane Sullivan, that her formative literary influences include "Roald Dahl, Barbara Baynton, John Steinbeck, Peter Carey, Tim Winton, Ray Bradbury and Harper Lee". She said that she re-reads "To Kill A Mocking Bird" every year and that her favourite short story is Maurice Sendak's children's story "Where the Wild Things Are".

Awards

* 2004: IP Picks. Winner for "Joyflight"
* 2004: Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition. Winner
* 2002: Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize for "Signs of Other Fires"
* 2001 Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Highly Commended for "Signs of Other Fires"
* 2000 & 2001: The Age Short Story Award
* 1997: ANUTECH Literary Prize. Short Story Winner for "White Flight"
* 1996 & 1997: HQ/HarperCollins Short Story Competition. Shortlisted
* 1994 & 1995: Scarlett Stiletto. Winner

Other awards: The "Herald/Sun" Short Story Award

The 2007 Sisters in Crime Scarlett Stiletto Awards include a category named for Kennedy: "The Cate Kennedy Award for Best New Talent ($350)"

Works

Poetry, short story collections

* "Signs of Other Fires", (Five Islands Press, c2001) ISBN 0864187289
* "Joyflight" (Interactive Press, 2004) ISBN 187681926X [http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=5313 API review]
* "Dark Roots", (Scribe, 2006) ISBN 1920769994 [http://www.theprogram.net.au/reviewsSub.asp?id=4106&state=1 review]
* "Crucible and Other Poems", (Picaro Press, 2006)

Memoir

* "Sing, and Don't Cry : a Mexican Journal", (Transit Lounge, 2005) ISBN 0975022814

Published short stories

* 'Cold Snap', (in "Dark Roots"), published in "The New Yorker" (as "Black Ice") on 11 September 2006

Edited

* "Labour of love : tales from the world of midwives", with Amanda Tattam (Macmillan, 2005)
* "Love & desire : four modern Australian novellas" (Five Mile Press, 2007)

External links

* [http://www.scribepublications.com.au/author/catekennedy Cate Kennedy, Scribe Publications] Accessed July 17, 2007
* [http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1782162.htm Di Morrissey and Cate Kennedy in conversation with Richard Fidler, ABC The Backyard, November 6, 2006]
* [http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=5313 Hegemann, Helen "Review of "Joyflight" in "API Network", June 2005]

Notes

References

* [http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Newsletters_and_Journals/ANU_Reporter/_pdf/vol_28_no_12/anutech.html "Canberra Writers win ANUTECH Competition", in "The ANU Reporter", Vol. 28 No. 12]
* [http://www.bookedout.com.au/authors/Cate_Kennedy/index.html Cate Kennedy bio for Booked Out Agency] Accessed: 2007-07-23
* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/the-richer-the-poorer/2005/08/22/1124562798814.html Kizilos, Katherine (2005) "The richer, the poorer" in "The Age" August 22, 2005]
* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/back-to-her-roots/2006/09/14/1157827093579.html Sullivan, Jane (2006) "Back to her roots" in "The Age" 2006-09-14] Accessed: 2007-07-23

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