His Dad’s long gone, the dickhead principal kicked him out of the Comprehensive, the coppers won’t quit hassling him, his Ma’s nagging’s doing his head in, his best mate’s a piss-head slacker, his brother’s gone down for beating on his ex and his new job nets him less than the pension … but this time it’s not just Harlem Jones that’s angry: it’s half of fricken England.
My fiction piece, Harlem Jones, has just been shortlisted for the Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize. You can read the shortlist here: http://overland.org.au/blogs/editors-blog/2012/10/shortlist-for-the-overland-victoria-university-short-story-prize/ (sorry, the insert link-in-word-button-thing on blogspot isn't working). Really exciting to see that, in a blind-read competition, there are so many women on the shortlist.
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