Edwina Preston
NationalityAustralian
Occupation(s)writer and musician
Notable work
  • Not Just a Suburban Boy
  • The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer

Edwina Preston is a Melbourne-based writer and musician. Preston is the author of a biography of Australian artist Howard Arkley, Not Just a Suburban Boy (Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002),[1][2] and the novel The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer (University of Queensland Press, 2012).[3][4][5] Her writing and reviews have appeared in The Age, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Heat, Island and Griffith Review.[6]

She released a spoken-word CD, Hirsute, in 1997 (ABC Audio) and performed around Melbourne. Alicia Sometimes described Preston as "melting the stage with a harpist by her side".[7][8] She plays keyboards and sings in Harry Howard and the NDE (Spooky Records) with Harry Howard, Dave Graney and Clare Moore, and in ATOM (IT Records)[9][10] with Harry Howard and Ben Hepworth (Repairs, Exek). She is a featured vocalist in the occasional performing group Pop Crimes: The Songs of Rowland S Howard.[11]

In May 2021, Wakefield Press announced that they will publish Edwina's new novel, "provisionally titled Veda Grey" in May 2022.[12] The book was subsequently published as Bad Art Mother and shortlisted for the 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[13] and shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "An imagination in need - Document - Gale OneFile: News". go.gale.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  2. ↑ Simmonds, Diana (16 February 2002). "Imperfect Portrait". The Australian.
  3. ↑ Krauth, Kirsten (26 October 2012). "Greatest show on Earth". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "Edwina Preston". www.australianbookreview.com.au. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Austin, Michelle (7 May 2013). "Review of The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer by Edwina Preston". Transnational Literature Review – via Trove.nla.gov.au.
  6. ↑ "The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer". www.female.com.au. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  7. ↑ Edwina Preston – Hirsute (1997, CD), retrieved 7 June 2021
  8. ↑ Sometimes, Alicia (1 June 2014). "Radio Laneways and the Melbourne Sound". Archived from the original on 12 June 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  9. ↑ "In Every Dream Home, by Atom". Atom. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  10. ↑ gimmiezine (31 March 2020). "ATOM's Harry Howard: "Universally in art, death and sex and love are the big themes… I'm constantly writing songs that mention death"". Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie Zine. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  11. ↑ "pop crimes". The I-94 Bar. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  12. ↑ "Wakefield Press acquires Edwina Preston's bohemian 'Veda Grey'". Wakefield Press. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  13. ↑ "Bad Art Mother". State Library of NSW. 3 February 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  14. ↑ Harmon, Steph (29 March 2023). "Stella prize 2023 shortlist: small publishers dominate Australian literary award". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 March 2023.


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