Nigel Featherstone
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Nigel Featherstone

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Nigel Featherstone is an Australian writer who has been published widely. His latest novel, MY HEART IS A LITTLE WILD THING, published in 2022 by Ultimo Press/Hardie Grant, has been described as a ‘A triumph of a book’ (Peter Polites), ‘A poignant and ultimately hopeful novel’ (Delia Falconer), and ‘A must-read piece of Australian literature’ (Holden Sheppard). His war novel, BODIES OF MEN, was published by Hachette Australia in 2019 and was longlisted for the 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize, shortlisted in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards, and was shortlisted for the 2019 ACT Book of the Year. His other works include the story collection JOY (2000), his debut novel REMNANTS (2005), and THE BEACH VOLCANO (2014), which is the third in an award-winning series of novellas. He wrote the libretto for THE WEIGHT OF LIGHT, an adventurous and highly regarded contemporary song cycle that was developed by The Street Theatre in Canberra had its world premiere in 2018. Nigel's short stories have appeared in many literary journals, including the Review of Australian Fiction, Meanjin, and Island. His creative nonfiction has been published by the Chicago Quarterly Review, The Guardian (Australia), the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Canberra Times. Nigel has held residencies at Varuna (Blue Mountains, New South Wales), Bundanon (Shoalhaven River, New South Wales), UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, and along with novelists Robyn Cadwallader and Julie Keys, he was awarded the inaugural 2020 Write North Residency, an initiative of the Byron Writers Festival. Nigel Featherstone is represented by Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary, Sydney.
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