Karen Attard (born 1958) is an Australian writer of

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and

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Biography

Attard's first work to be published was in 1975 with a poem published by Meuse Press, entitled ''Like an Omen''. In 1995 she published a poetry collection published by Five Islands Press entitled ''Whisper Dark'' and a short story, '' Harvest Bay'' which was featured in the ''

Eidolon (Australian magazine) Eidolon Publications was a small press publisher based in North Perth, Western Australia. The company previously published the speculative fiction magazine ''Eidolon'' which ran from 1990 to 2000 and published books under the name of Eidolon Boo ...

'' magazine. ''Harvest Bay'' won the 1995 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story. In 1997 she released two more short stories which were both featured in the Eidolon magazine.

Bibliography

Collections

*''Whisper Dark'' (1995)

Poems

*''Like an Omen'' (1975)

Short stories

*" Harvest Bay" (1995) in ''

'', Spring 1995 *"A Momentary Brightness" (1997) in ''Eidolon'', issue 24, Autumn 1997 *"Extracts from a Chronicle" (1997) in ''Eidolon'', Issue 25/26, Spring 1997

References

Australian women poets Living people 1958 births Australian women short story writers Australian fantasy writers 20th-century Australian women writers Women science fiction and fantasy writers 20th-century Australian short story writers {{Australia-writer-stub