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 The ''ABR'' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is an annual short fiction competition run by the ''Australian Book Review''. The Prize, with total prize money of AU$12,500 and "generating over a thousand new stories each year", is "hotly contested" ...

. Cole also has judged some of Australia's leading writing prizes. As a professor of creative writing at both the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (UOW) is an Australian public university, public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately south of Sydney. , the university had an enrolment of more than 33,000 s ...

and RMIT University, Melbourne and as a senior lecturer at

University of Technology, Sydney The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1988, though its origins as a technical institution can be traced back t ...

, 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 Alec Derwent Hope (21 July 190713 July 2000) was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic. He was referred to in an American journal as "the 20th century's greatest 18th-century ...

, whom she later wrote about in her memoir, ''The Poet Who Forgot'' (2008). 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. 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

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Residences

* 2015: Inaugural Visiting Writing Fellow,

Sun Yat-Sen University Sun Yat-sen University (; SYSU) is a public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education, SASTIND, and Guangdong Provincial Government. The university is p ...

, Guangzhou, China * 2008: Visiting Fellow,

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...

, United Kingdom * 2002: Writer in Residence, Keesing Studio, Cite International des Arts, Paris, France * 2001: Asialink Fellow, The Gioi Publishing, Hanoi, Vietnam

Awards and honours

Cole has won, been shortlisted, and/or been commended for the following awards: * 2000: Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel, ''Dry Dock'', finalist * 2002: Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel, ''Skin Deep'', finalist * 2004: Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel, ''Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks,'' finalist * 2005: Asher Award Melbourne University award * 2015:

, "Forever Re-Starting", commended tile * 2015: Fool For Poetry International Chapbook Competition, finalist * Davitt Award for Australian Crime Writing * Munster Poetry Prize * Peter Blazey Prize for Non-Fiction Manuscript Cole also has judged some of Australia's leading writing prizes, including the Age Book of the Year, the

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, and The National Jazz Writing Competition.

Publications

Books

Non-fiction

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Fiction

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Short story collections

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Short stories

* * * * ''Her Annotated Hair'', 2009, Trunk: Hair #1

Poetry

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Essays and reviews

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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.) *

Radio

* ''The Road to Austinmer Beach'', 2014 June,

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References

External links

Official website
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