Trent Jamieson is an Australian writer of

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Biography

Jamieson was first published in 1994 with the short story "Threnody" which was published in the winter edition '' Eidolon (Australian magazine)''. In 2003 Jamieson was nominated for the Ditmar Award for best professional achievement but lost to

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. In 2005 Jamieson won the Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story with his story " Slow and Ache". In 2008 he won his second Aurealis Award. " Cracks" won the Aurealis Award for best young-adult short story, beating works by Deborah Biancotti, Dirk Flinthart and Kevin MacLean. In 2010 his first novel, ''Death Most Definite'', was published by

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and was nominated for the Aurealis Award for best horror novel and the Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel. ''Death Most Definite'' is the first part of the ''Death Works'' series and was followed by a sequel ''Managing Death'' in early 2011. Jamieson is currently writing a duology for Angry Robot Books and the third novel in the ''Death Works'' series. Jamieson is a former teacher at Clarion South Writers Workshop and is a seasonal academic at the

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. He is also a former editor for the magazine ''Redsine''. Jamieson currently lives in

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, Australia and works at The Avid Reader Bookshop.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

;''Death Works'' *''Death Most Definite'' (2010) *''Managing Death'' (2011) *''The Business of Death'' (September 2011) ;Other *''Roil'' (30 August 2011) *''Night's Engines'' (2012) *''Day Boy'' (2015) *''The Stone Road'' (2022)

Short fiction

*"Threnody" (1994) in '' Eidolon'' Winter 1994 (ed.

, Jeremy G. Byrne) *"Naked" (1999) in ''

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'' No. 3 (ed. Robert N. Stephenson, Jim Deed, Andrew Collings) *"Carousel" (2000) in '' Aurealis'' #25/26 (ed. Dirk Strasser,

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) *"A Thief Is a King in the Halls of the Night" (2001) in '' AustrAlien Absurdities'' (ed. Chuck McKenzie, Tansy Rayner Roberts) *"Tar Baby" (2002) in '' Agog! Fantastic Fiction'' (ed.

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) *"The Catling God" (2002) in '' Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'' No. 1 (ed. Ben Payne) *"Wind Down" (2002) in ''Aurealis'' No. 30 (ed. Keith Stevenson) *"Endure" (2004) in '' Agog! Smashing Stories'' (ed. Cat Sparks) *"Don't Got No Wings" (2004) in '' Encounters'' (ed. Maxine McArthur, Donna Maree Hanson) *"Generous Furniture" (2004) in ''Glass Onion'' (ed. D. F. Lewis) *"Porcelain Salli" (2004) in ''Aurealis'' #33–35, (ed. Keith Stevenson) *"Five Bells" (2005) in ''

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'' (ed. Robin Pen,

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) *"Tumble" (2005) in ''Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2006'' (ed. Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Angela Challis) *"Neighbours" (2005) in '' The Devil in Brisbane'' (ed. Zoran Zivkovic) *"Slow and Ache" (2005) in ''Aurealis'' No. 36 (ed. Ben Payne, Robert Hoge) *"Marco's Tooth" (2006) in ''Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'' No. 22 (ed. Tansy Rayner Roberts) *" Cracks" (2008) in ''Shiny'' No. 2 *"Delivery" (2008) in
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, Wilson da Silva) *"The New Deal" (2008) in '' Dreaming Again'' (ed.

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) *"The Lighterman's Tale" (2009) in ''Canterbury 2100: Pilgrimages in a New World'' (ed. Dirk Flinthart) *"The Neighbourhood of Dead Monsters" (2009) in ''Aurealis'' No. 42 (ed. Stuart Mayne) *"Iron Temple" (2009) in ''X6'' (ed. Keith Stevenson) *"Temptation" (2010) in ''

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'' (ed. Amanda Pillar, Pete Kempshall)

Anthologies

*''Fantastical Journeys to Brisbane'' (2008) edited with Geoffrey Maloney and Zoran Zivkovic

Collections

*''Reserved for Travelling Shows'' (2006)

Children's Books

*''The Giant and the Sea'' (2020) *''Mr Impoppable'' (2023)

Editor contributions

*''Redsine'', fiction editor for the magazine *''

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'' (2003), a novel by K. J. Bishop

References

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