{"id":6,"date":"2016-07-08T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2022-11-27T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T06:15:17","slug":"short-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Autumn<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tailwind<\/em> launched at the WriteAroundtheMurray Festival in September, 2016 by Anson Cameron<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the launch speech\u00a0Anson said: “Here\u2019s how Beverley organizes a car crash,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a cruel thing to do to a man, get him involved in a car crash when he\u2019s daydreaming sexy daydreams about his wife. Even crueler, the accident leaves him catatonic, a virtual vegetable\u2026 but his wife (or Beverley, or both) goes on to heal him with music\u2026 the very music he was listening to when he had the crash. The story is called Strawberry Toes, and it\u2019s a tough story, but in the end it\u2019s a story full of hope. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Which seems to me to represent Tailwind<\/em> pretty well. There\u2019s drought, domestic violence, there are all of life\u2019s travails. The book, in a sense asks that old Shakespearean question\u2026 \u201cTo be, Or not to be\u2026\u201d And always comes down on the side of \u201cBe\u201d.\u00a0 A wonderful affirmation that, despite all, we can cope. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I urge you all to buy a copy of Tailwind. <\/span><\/span>Bev I hope the book flies off the shelves like a flock of galahs. Congratulations.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Beverley Lello and Anson Cameron at the launch of Tailwind, September 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you would like to read one of\u00a0the stories included in Tailwind<\/em>,\u00a0click on the following link:<\/p>\n

Saffron<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Publication and Awards (2018 – 2022)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Borrowed Spaces<\/em> (short story anthology) 2018 (see separate page)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One hundred and eight stairs<\/em> – second place in the Friends of Paynesville Library Short Story Competition 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motel<\/em> – second place in the Sutherland Shire Literary Competition, 2019 and published in Fabian<\/em> (The Australian Fabians Review) Issue 3 – Summer 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seedlings<\/em> – published in Lasting Conversations Stories on Ageing <\/em>– edited by Dr Susan Ogle and Melanie Joosten 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Memory Keeper<\/em> – published in Close to Heaven and other award-winning stories,<\/em> Stringybark Publishing 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walk, don’t run<\/em> – shortlisted for the Tasmanian Writers Prize, 2020 – published in Forty South Short Story Anthology 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Red Rosettes<\/em> – first place in the Margaret Hazzard Short Story Competition, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pippa & Son<\/em> – third place in the Friends of Paynesville Library Short Story Competition, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Coffee Drinkers<\/em> – second place in the Mid North Coast Writers’ Centre Short Story Competition 2021 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Old Black Kettle<\/em> and Nestin<\/em>g – highly commended in the Short Stories Unlimited Four Seasons Anthology 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tailwind launched at the WriteAroundtheMurray Festival in September, 2016 by Anson Cameron\u00a0 In the launch speech\u00a0Anson said: “Here\u2019s how Beverley organizes a car crash,\u00a0a cruel thing to do to a man, get him involved in a car crash when he\u2019s daydreaming sexy daydreams about his wife. Even crueler, the accident leaves him catatonic, a virtual … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beverleylello.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}