Short Stories and Drama

Brian Castro's published short stories and dramatic works


Play

1994 Secrets. Monologue for the Sydney Festival, performed by John Derum. 27th-30th
ANZ Theatre, Darling Harbour, January, 1994. Broadcast on ABC FM and Radio National, March, 1994. Published in George Papaellinas ed. Republica, No.1 (1994).

Screenplay

1993 After China (with Jim Sharman) (Unpublished)

Published Short Stories

2001 ‘Danser Shanghai’, Extract from Shanghai Dancing in Vacarme, No 15, Printemps,
Paris. Trans. Isabelle Lee.
2000 ‘Peripeteia’ Extract from Shanghai Dancing in Meanjin
2000 ‘Cathay’ Extract from Shanghai Dancing in Island magazine
1999 ‘For Richer, For Poorer’ Extract from Shanghai Dancing in Best Australian Stories of
1999, Peter Craven ed.
1999 ‘The Pillow Book’, Heat Vol.11, March, 1999.
1999 ‘Sonatina’, in The Penguin Century of Australian Short Stories, Carmel Bird ed., Penguin, (ISBN: 0-670-89233-5).
1999 ‘Hopscotch’, in Enough Already, an anthology of Jewish writing, Alan
Jacobs ed., Allen & Unwin, (ISBN 1-86448-756-9)
1997 ‘Nightsafe Area’, a monologue, in Heat Vol.3, February, 1997.
1996 'Hopscotch' in A Sporting Declaration Manfred Jurgensen ed., Phoenix
Publications.
1996 'Shanghai-dancing' in Risks Brenda Walker ed., Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
1996 'Sonatina' in Red Hot Notes Carmel Bird ed., University Of Queensland Press (February, 1996). First published, Sydney Morning Herald, 26/3/94.
1995 Extract from Stepper in Australian Book Review, October 1995.
1994 Extract from Drift in Scripsi Vol 9 No 2
1994 Extract from After China in Reading From the Left Wendy Jenkins ed., Fremantle
Arts Press.
1993 Extract from Drift in Harbour,George Papaellinas ed., Picador.
1993 'Poet's Ridge' in Murder at Home, Stephen Knight ed., Allen & Unwin.
1993 'You Must Remember This', Picador New Writing No. 1. Robert Dessaix & Helen
Daniel eds. Trans. Czech, Alexandra Büchler, Vanoce V Busi, Apsida, Praha 2000.
1993 'Death Of A Morphologist', Microstories, Imprint, Angus & Robertson, Rosemary Sorensen ed. First published in Australian Book Review, no.145, October 1992. Chung-wai Literary Monthly, No. 301, Taiwan, trans. Ouyang Yu, p 209.
1992 'Portfolio' in A Corpse At The Opera House Stephen Knight ed., Allen & Unwin.
1992 'Carried Away On A Flower Boat', Scripsi, Vol 7 No. 3.
1987 'Grand-Master', in Displacements 2: Multicultural Storytellers, Deakin University, First
published in Outrider, Vol 2, No. 2, 1985.
1983 'The Cave' Meanjin, 42, No.1.
1982 'The Last Card Game' inprint, 6, No.3.
1982 'The Tyranny of Form' Brave New World, No.2.
1982 'Three Hemingway Pieces' The Nepean Review (Vol. 8) Short Story Competition
First Prize.
1982 'A Ten-Minute Story Into The Night' Going Down Swinging, No.4.
1982 'Miniatures' The Nepean Review, (Vol. 9).
1981 'Mythos', in The Hat Trick, Australian Short Stories, B.H.P./F.A.W.
1981 'Indolent Notes Towards Heaven' inprint 5, No. 2.
1980 'Writing From The Clinic' Mattoid 2, No. 9.
1975 'The Man Who Breathed' New Literature Review.
1973 'Estrellita' The Union Recorder (Vol 53, No. 22), Sydney University Short Story
Competition First Prize.

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