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Finalist Best Fantasy Novel 2017 Aurealis Awards

Odyssey_final_files — Published by Odyssey Books

Cassie is a farmer’s daughter with a fortune teller gifts. She tries to use her psychic gift to help the people she loves and mostly fails. Her genius neighbour Athena offers her help, except Athena is a Greek goddess reincarnate. It might be Australia in the 1980s but the remaining Greek gods still think humans are their plaything. Reviews on Goodreads

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The Dark Poet

Some people are so broken they can only cut us.

With poetic dexterity Aurealis Award finalist Kathryn Gossow interweaves eight short stories of longing and alienation featuring outcasts and the misunderstood. From a homeless storyteller to a gardening soothsayer, to a copy editor who owns a pair of stubborn chickens, readers will come face to face with the humanity of people easily judged by a rigid society. At the heart of these stories is the Dark Poet, a charismatic and broken man, who leaves a trail of debris drifts in and out of people’s lives. Reviews on Goodreads

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Stories and Flash Fiction

Memory Games, in StylusLit

Turning the Corner, Unsettling Wonder

Grandma’s House,” Gingerbread House

Soulmates, Black: Australian Dark Culture

Cold Kiss, Black Box Anthology

Dance Home, Cezanne’s Carrot

Boys and Cars, elimae

Women who do Lunch, Salome Magazine

Reflections on a Town Bike, Diddle Dog

The Applicant, Antipodean SF

Worm, Cezanne’s Carrot

Creative Resilience

September 30, 2019 by Kathryn Gossow, posted in This is me..., Writing Fix

Life can be crappy. Not only does it throw curveballs, sometimes it throws cricket balls right at your face. Bang! When you’re not even looking. What I like about the idea of resilience is that you don’t have to be born with it. It’s not like my inability to ever be tall. I will never … Continue reading Creative Resilience

Serious Readers Only

August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 by Kathryn Gossow, posted in Book Fix, Pocket Book Club

It’s difficult to write about Pocket Bookclub’s recent read, The Plains by Gerald Murnane. This book requires some patience to read and interrogate. It generated considerable discussion at our meeting, a lot of it about magic mushrooms. I will begin with the man. Murnane was born in 1939 in Victoria and has never flown anywhere. … Continue reading Serious Readers Only

Fiction & non-fiction in harmony

August 16, 2019August 16, 2019 by Kathryn Gossow, posted in Book Fix, Pocket Book Club

When Pocket book-club read The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman I knew how it would end and I knew which book I had to re-read next. A few years ago I read Zealot: The Life an Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan. Aslan describes himself as having come from a family of lukewarm Muslims … Continue reading Fiction & non-fiction in harmony

For the love of Toy Story

August 4, 2019August 4, 2019 by Kathryn Gossow, posted in Film FIx

After my book launch, we went to see Toy Story 4. I figured it would be a good way to recoup after all the peopling I had done. Introvert therapy. We went to see Toy Story 1 before we had children. We love movies and the fact that it was a kids movie was irrelevant. … Continue reading For the love of Toy Story

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