Author/Editor: Francesca Rendle-Short

Biography
Francesca Rendle-Short
Francesca Rendle-Short grew up in Queensland, the fifth of six children. She has worked variously as a radio producer, teacher, editor, freelance writer and arts journalist. She is a novelist, author of Bite Your Tongue (Spinifex Press), Imago (Spinifex Press), and Big Sister (Redress Novellas). Her short fictions, photo-essays, exhibition text, and poetry for the page and for the wall, have been published in literary journals and magazines, online and in exhibitions. Francesca has a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong and is the Program Director of Creative Writing at RMIT. She lives in Melbourne.

Website: http://www.francescarendleshort.com/

Events
16 Nov 2011 Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds at Byron Bay
November 23: Bite Your Tongue by Francesca Rendle-Short is to be launched in Byron Bay at the Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds 16th  Annual Conference o... more

News
02 Sep 2011 Angel Bread: Writing My Mother, Francesca Rendle-Short on writing her memoir

Check out this heartfelt piece in Axon by Francesca on the writing of Bite Your Tongue and also two great reviews from Overland and Readings. Francesca also... more


Book Awards
Imago: 1997 ACT Book of the Year Award

Books published by, or available from, Spinifex
Bite Your Tongue
Imago

Out Now
Valence

Valence


Susan Hawthorne

Valence
    in chemistry, the number of bonds in an
    element’s atom
    in linguistics, the number of arguments
   ...

Anticlimax

Anticlimax


Sheila Jeffreys

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

“A rigorous, savvy contemporary intellectual history … Read this book.” – Andrea...


Bite Your Tongue

Bite Your Tongue


Francesca Rendle-Short

Available Now

Mrs Angel Rendle-Short said that a book given to her daughter, Francesca, as an English textbook at school...


A Handwritten Modern Classic

A Handwritten Modern Classic


Finola Moorhead

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

This quirky manifesto about writing was first published in 1983. Finola Moorhead, one of...


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