Spineless Wonders Novella Prize 2024
- Kathryn Crowley
- Nov 26, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 2, 2024
I'm beyond delighted to have my unpublished Novella in Flash "My Mother Didn't Want Me to Get a Tattoo" highly commended in the Spineless Wonders Novella Prize 2024 in Australia.
The judges' report was very encouraging. The next challenge is to find a (publishing) home for it!
Highly Commended:
My Mother Didn’t Want Me To Get A Tattoo – Kathryn Crowley
Judges’ Report:
The judges enjoyed immensely this understated, but brilliantly-handled story of a relationship between a daughter and her mother. The title, which deceptively evokes some kind of fraught or clichéd conflict with a maternal figure, conceals instead a story which transmits the nuance of intergenerational care, difference and respect. Using original prose techniques and a play of mixed genre formats that totally engage the reader and carry them beyond tired, over-dramatised aesthetics into something that has its own voice, pacing and emotional intelligence, the work is fresh, awake and wryly kind.
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