by Annabel Smith | Dec 12, 2014 | Interviews
Paddy O’Reilly won the Age Short Story Award in 2002, and has since published three novels and a short story collection in Australia, Europe and the USA. Heart of Pearl, a short film for which she wrote the screenplay, was nominated for an Australian Film...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Aug 18, 2012 | Article
Today’s guest post is by author Paddy O’Reilly. When Elizabeth Lhuede asked me to write about why I wouldn’t want my book classified as ‘women’s fiction,’ my first thought was that I don’t actually know what the classification ‘women’s fiction’ means. I...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Aug 17, 2012 | News
Cross-posted from Australianwomenwriters.com. (Will this appear in “News”?) This week the Australian Women Writers Challenge reached a milestone: over 1000 reviews have been linked to the site. We should be celebrating, right? Or should we? Over at Meanjin...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Mar 5, 2012 | Article, Guest Posts
(Imported from Blogger; formatting glitches to be fixed) Short stories are perfect for the age of short attention spans, according to some. But not according to P.A. O’Reilly. O’Reilly, whose novel The Fine Colour of Rust was released on March 1, finds...