north east regional extra | 7 - 13 November, 2018
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7 - 13 November, 2018
Returns,
connection and place
By KYLIE WILSON
◆ INSPIRED BY SURROUNDINGS: Margaret Hickey in her home near Glenrowan. PHOTO: Kylie Wilson
GARDEN HINTS
PET CARE
WINE TALK
TECH & SCIENCE
with MANDI
with FRANKIE
with ANITA
with CHRIS
CONSTANTLY inspired by the world around her, Glenrowan writer Margaret Hickey has little time to rest on her laurels. And this year has been a particularly busy one for the prolific author, who is known across the North East and beyond for her prose and plays alike. She came second in the state for the 2018 Victorian Writers Grace Marion Award – and first in regional Victoria - for her short story, Binky, which was written about a failed playwright returning to the places of his childhood, a farm in the Western District. She also flew to Perth in October to receive first prize in the Australasian Association of Writers and the Australian Short Story Festival emerging writers prize for her short story, Fowler’s Bay. The Fowler’s Bay short story was set in South Australia, in “an incredible landscape of history and change,” Margaret said. “Both Binky and Fowler’s Bay are about people returning to the rural places of their childhood.” Margaret said she was very happy to be recognised for her work. “Winning those two awards so close in succession was very satisfactory,” she said.
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