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AN INCREASED appetite for short stories during last year\u2019s lockdowns came as a pleasant surprise for Geelong writer Charlotte Guest.<\/p>\n

Charlotte, an award-winning writer and PhD candidate at Deakin, experienced their popularity first-hand from behind the counter of The Book Bird bookshop in Geelong West where she is assistant manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a bookselling point-of-view for 2020 we were run off our feet,\u201d said Charlotte, who even delivered customer orders on her pushbike to meet demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a number of new customers find us because of how 2020 was affecting them and their home life and what they wanted to read to try to escape.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSome were drawn to short stories because of attention span and the immediacy of a short story that you can experience a micro-world within the period of one sitting or an hour\u2019s worth of reading, which is as rich as anything you would encounter in a novel.\u201d<\/p>\n

This month Charlotte will host an online panel discussion exploring the short story genre facilitated by Geelong Regional Library Corporation in partnership with publisher Kill Your Darlings and The Book Bird.<\/p>\n

Titled Short and Sweet \u2013 New Australian Fiction 2020, the event will feature readings and contributions from Elizabeth Flux, Laura McPhee-Browne and Jack Vening, whose work features in New Australian Fiction 2020.<\/p>\n

The annual collection of short fiction features some of the country\u2019s best-loved writers alongside exciting new voices, touching upon issues such as genetic experimentation and nuclear fallout, as well as stories of human connection.<\/p>\n

Charlotte said short fiction forced writers to be economical with language, making every word count, as was the case with New Australian Fiction 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach piece is almost like a thought experiment \u2013 it has something very specific that it either wants to portray or explore within the confines of 4000 words,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe constraint around shorter pieces is where a lot of the interesting creativity and innovation comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlotte nominates Lydia Davis, Lorrie Moore, Elizabeth Tann and Wayne Marshall as her favourite short fiction writers.<\/p>\n

As for her own writing journey, Charlotte explains she was an outdoors type who took to writing later than most.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favourite book when I was a child was the Faraway Tree,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad had this huge garden with a massive tree and he created a Faraway Tree which had all the different levels with Topsy Turvy Land at the top and all the characters in the tree.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent all my time in the garden and I didn\u2019t write or read much until late primary school or early secondary school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlotte has made up for lost time, publishing a book of poetry titled Soap in 2017 and writing for The Guardian, Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Crikey and others.<\/p>\n

Last year she received the Tina Kane Emergent Writer Award, the Deakin University Community Bank Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Peter Carey Award.<\/p>\n

\u200bA major focus this year is a debut novel \u2013 an absurdist inspired piece she is writing as part of her PhD.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am interested in taking something that seems preposterous and then trying to imagine it as a real scenario or something quite serious in nature, I find that really interesting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy novel is a rewriting of a story from the late Roman Republic about the influential poet Catullus who is thought of as Rome\u2019s first erotic poet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe poetry he wrote was all dedicated to this woman called Clodia and the idea of the novel is to resurrect these characters but rewrite them in an Australian 1980s setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlotte is looking forward to the Short and Sweet event which she said should appeal to readers of short fiction and writers alike.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know there is a fantastic writing community on the Surf Coast and in Geelong central and I think it will be a really appealing event for emerging as well as established writers too,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Discover more about Charlotte Guest at charlottelucyguest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Short and Sweet \u2013 New Australian Fiction 2020 will be held online on Wednesday, January 27 at 7.30pm. To register go to: https:\/\/events.grlc.vic.gov.au\/event\/4716186<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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