Catherine Cole is an Australian author and academic. She lives between Australia, South West France and the UK. Cole's work in the fields of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and academic writing has been widely published both in Australia in the UK, US, China and Vietnam.

Her book Dry Dock was a finalist for the 2000 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. In 2015, her short story "Forever Re-Starting" was commended for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Cole also has judged some of Australia's leading writing prizes.

As a professor of creative writing at both the University of Wollongong and RMIT University, Melbourne and as a senior lecturer at University of Technology, Sydney, Cole has supervised some of Australia's leading and emerging writers in their postgraduate degrees.

Literary career

Cole began her literary career publishing poetry in a range of Australian poetry journals with the support of her mentor, A.D. Hope, whom she later wrote about in her memoir, The Poet Who Forgot (2008).[1] Her first published prose fiction was short story, followed by the novels Dry Dock (1999), Skin Deep (2005), then The Grave at Thu Le (2006), which examines French colonialism in Vietnam.[2]

Cole's Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks, published in 1996, explores the lure of crime fiction and its increasing popularity across international cultures. In 2009, Cole, along with Vicki Karaminas and Peter McNeil, co-edited Fashion in Fiction, Fashion in Textiles, Television and Film. In 2010, her lifelong fascination with Vietnam was further explored in the collection The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam.

Some of Cole's recent short stories have been published in Australian journals and anthologies and have been produced by and read on BBC Radio 4.[3]

Residences

  • 2015 Inaugural Visiting Writing Fellow, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China[4]
  • 2008 Visiting Fellow, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
  • 2002 Writer in Residence, Keesing Studio, Cite International des Arts, Paris,France[5]
  • 2001 Asialink Fellow, The Gioi Publishing, Hanoi, Vietnam[6]

Awards and honors

Cole has won, been shortlisted, and/or been commended for the following awards:

Cole also has judged some of Australia's leading writing prizes, including the Age Book of the Year,[10] the Barbara Jefferis Award,[11] and The National Jazz Writing Competition.[12]

Publications

Books

Non-fiction

  • Private dicks and feisty chicks : an interrogation of crime fiction. Curtin University Books. 2004. ISBN 9781920731281.
  • The poet who forgot. Crawley, W.A: University of Western Australia Press. 1 January 2008. ISBN 9781921401046.[1]
  • Slipstream: On Memory and Migration. Valley Press. 2023. ISBN 9781915606341.

Fiction

Short story collections

  • The Perfume River: An Anthology of Writing From Vietnam. UWA Publishing. 2010.[14][15]
  • Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark. UWA Publishing. 2017. ISBN 9781742589503.

Short stories

  • "Creative Work: The Rabbit". Animal Studies Journal. 3 (2): 57–60. 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  • The Sleepers Almanac. Sleepers Publishing. 2014. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2023.[16]
  • Kennedy, Cate (ed.). The Best Australian Stories 2011. Black Inc.[17]
  • Her Annotated Hair 2009 Trunk: Hair #1

Poetry

Essays and reviews

Other works

  • Travelling Partners: Using Literary Studies to Support Creative Writing about Real Spaces Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. Eds. Brien D., Cole C., & Freiman M. (Lobb, J.)
  • Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television. Co-edited with Peter McNeil and Vicki Karaminas. Bloomsbury. 2009.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

Radio

References

  1. 1 2 Pierce, Peter (11 April 2008). "The Poet Who Forgot - Book Reviews - Books - Entertainment - smh.com.au". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 Modjeska, Drusilla (1 July 2005). "A sort of homecoming [Review article.]". The Monthly: 54–56.
  3. ↑ "The Road from Austinmer Beach, by Catherine Cole". BBC. July 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Research & Teaching - The First Sun Yat-sen University International Writers' Residency Held | 中山大学 SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY". Sysu.edu.cn. Retrieved 15 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ "Judges | National Jazz Writing Competition". Njwc.extempore.com.au. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Vietnam". Asialink. Retrieved 15 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. 1 2 3 "Cathy Cole". Stop, You're Killing Me!. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "News from the Editor's desk - September 2015". Australian Book Review. September 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  9. ↑ "Cork International Poetry Festival". Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Steger, Jason (28 August 2010). "'Simple love story' wins Age award". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 25 October 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "Barbara Jefferis Award Winner 2011". Australian Society of Authors. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Judges | National Jazz Writing Competition". Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  13. ↑ "Dry Dock". Australia Crime Fiction. 7 February 2008. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  14. ↑ "Book reviews: The Perfume River". Transnational Literature. 3 (2). May 2011.
  15. ↑ Sussex, Lucy (26 April 2010). "The Perfume River: Writing From Vietnam". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  16. ↑ Richardson, Owen (25 April 2014). "New voices to the fore in medley of short, sharp and sweet bites". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  17. ↑ "Review: 'The Best Australian Stories 2011'". 4 January 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2016.

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