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of work by Amy Witting
NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND POETRY
The Visit
Thomas Nelson, Australia, 1977
Mandarin Australia, 1991
Minerva, Australia, 1996
(Assisted by Literature Board of Australia Council)
Travel Diary
Woodbine Press, Lane Cove, NSW, 1985
I for Isobel
Penguin Books Australia, 1989
Penguin Books Australia, 1999
(Winner of FAW Barbara Ramsden Award, 1989)
(Short-listed for 1990 Miles Franklin Award)
(Short-listed for 1990 NBC Banjo Award)
Recorded as a Talking Book, ABC Audio,
Marriages
Penguin Books Australia, 1990
(Short-listed for The Age Book of the Year Awards)
Beauty is the Straw
Collins/Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, Australia, 1991
(Short-listed for the Banjo Poetry Award)
A Change in the Lighting
Viking/Penguin Australia, 1994
Penguin Books Australia 1995
(Short-listed for the New South Wales State Literary Awards)
(Short-listed for The Talking Book of the Year Award)
In and Out the Window
Penguin Books Australia, 1995
Collected Poems
Penguin Books Australia, 1998
Maria's War
Penguin Books Australia, 1998
Isobel on the way to the Corner Shop
Penguin Books Australia 1999
(Short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award 2000)
(Winner, The Age Book of Year Award 2000, including the Fiction Prize)
Recorded as a talking book, ABC Audio
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories
Viking/Penguin Books Australia, 2000
After Cynthia
Penguin Books Australia 2001
Amy Witting won the 1993 Patrick White Award
POETRY IN ANTHOLOGIES and JOURNALS
(by date of publication)
Juvenilia
‘Wanderers’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 July 1934, p.11
‘Craoghfordh’s Lament’, Hermes, Michaelmas Term 1937, Sydney University, p.20
Anthologies
‘Words’,
Up from Below: Poems of the 1980s (ed.) Irene Coates, Nancy Corbett, & Barbara Petrie, Women's Redress Press, 1987
‘Deep Third Man Addresses the Ball’,
The Longest Game: A Collection of the Best Cricket Writing, Alex Buzo and Jamie Grant, (eds.) William Heinemann, 1990, p.288
‘The Blinkered Mind’
‘Beauty is the Straw’
‘A Curse on Herod’
The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse
Selected by Les Murray, Oxford University Press, Australia, 1991, pp.221-222
'untitled poem' in Reach for the Stars, compiled by Walter Mikac and Kim Sporton, Penguin Books, Australia, 2000
Journals (uncollected poems)
‘Commentary’
Quadrant, April 1995, p.65
‘His Love Speaks to Theodore Roethke’
The Bulletin, February 3, 1998
‘For Helen Kay’ (2 October 1973-27 July 1999)
also as a dedication in Faces and Voices: Collected Stories, Penguin Books, 2000
Unpublished
‘Letter to James McAuley’, July 1954
Amy Witting, Literary Papers 1943-1990, The State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library. MLMSS 5303 ML 1913/89
SHORT STORIES in JOURNALS or COLLECTIONS
(by date of publication)
‘The Strait of Hellespont’
Southerly, 1956, XVII, No. 4, pp. 200-204
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘A Bottle of Tears’
Southerly, 1957, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 148-152
Marriages, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1990, p. 40
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
Scorched, Penguin Australia, 2004
‘Peppercorn Rental’
Coast to Coast, 1959/60 (selected by Cecil Hadgraft) Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1960
Southerly, 1961, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 43-45
Marriages, Penguin, 1990, p. 85
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Yellow Dress’
The Bulletin, 5 August, 1961, pp. 38-39
‘The Bottom of the Well’
The Bulletin Book, The Bulletin, 16 December 1961, pp. 16-17
‘The Weight of a Man’
Coast to Coast 1961/62 (selected by Hal Porter) Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1962, pp. 1-12
Short Stories of Australia (selected by Beatrice Davis) Angus & Robertson, 1967
Contemporary Classics - 1965-1995, (ed. Don Anderson) Vintage Paperback, 1996
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Goodbye, Ady, Goodbye, Joe’
The New Yorker, 1965
(Short-listed for 'Distinctive Short Stories in American Magazines, 1965', (ed.) Martha Foley)
Marriages, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1990, p. 48
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Early Settler’
The New Yorker, 18 May 1968, pp. 42-44
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Man with the Impediment’
Coast to Coast, 1969/70 (selected by Thea Astley) Angus & Robertson, 1970
Marriages, Penguin Books, Ringwood, Australia, 1990, p. 64
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘A Piece of This Puzzle is Missing’
Tabloid Short Story, Supplement to Education, 24 July 1974, p. 234
The Tabloid Story Pocket Book, Michael Wilding (ed.) Wild & Woolley, 1978, p. 158
‘Report on a Rejected Manuscript’
Tabloid Short Story, No. 12, November 1974, supplement to On Dit, Adelaide University
Australian Short Stories, Bruce Pascoe & Linden Hyatt (eds.), Pascoe Publishing, 1990, p. 93
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 47
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories, Mary Lord (ed.) Penguin, 2000
‘The Survivors’
Stand (England) c. April, 1975, Vol. 16, No. 2, p. 39
Marriages, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1990, p. 1
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Miss Piper and Everyman’
Melbourne Sun Herald, 18 January, 1978
Personal Best 2, Garry Disher (ed.), Angus & Robertson, 1991, p. 321
In and Out the Window Penguin, Australia, 1995, p. 57
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Lovetalk and the Paranoia Kid’
Westerly, No. 3, September 1978, pp. 11-21
(Joint Prize-winner Patricia Hackett Prize 1978)
‘The Rescue’
Quadrant, January 1983, pp. 127-128
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 19
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Trap’
Marriages, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1990, p. 90
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Birthday Present II’
Scripsi, 1990, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 25-33
as ‘Soft Toys’ in Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Faces and Voices’
Scripsi, 1990, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 39-43
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 85
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Waste of an Evening’
Scripsi, 1991, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 181-186
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 79
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Casual Affair’
Scripsi, 1991, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 79-92
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 3
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Interview’
Southerly, ‘Memory’, Ivor Indyk & Elizabeth Webby (eds.), Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1991, Vol. 51 No. 3, pp. 190-195
‘Home to Roost’
Overland, 1991, No. 124, pp. 15-17
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 41
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Conversation in the Park’
Speaking with the Sun, Stephanie Dowrick & Jane Parkin (eds.), Allen & Unwin, 1991, pp. 159-163
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 65
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Enemies of Time’
Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers, Helen Daniel (ed.), Penguin Books, 1991, p. 133
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 24
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘A Very Important Finish’
Scripsi, 1992, Vol. 8 No. 2, p.57-63
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 94
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘In It to Win It’
The Bulletin, December 1992, Vol. 114, No. 5852, p58
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 37
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Ecumenical Altar’
Eureka Street, May 1994, Vol. 4, No. 4
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 29
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Afterplay’
Quadrant, May 1995, pp. 72-74
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 90
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘A Matter of Honour’
Books, Death and Taxes, (selected by Dinny O’Hearn), Penguin Books, Ringwood, 1995, pp. 124-130
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 53
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Perfect Woman’
In and Out the Window, Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995, p. 71
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Off the Record’
Women Love Sex (ed. Susan Johnson), Random House, 1996, p. 54
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘My Dearest Jane’
Regarding Jane Eyre, (ed. Susan Geason), Random House, 1997, p. 239
as ‘Letters to Jane Eyre’, in Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Secret Sin of Ms Antonia Laker’
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Knight in Armour’
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Walking Away’
Certifiable Truths: Stories of Love and Madness, Jane Messer (ed.), Allen & Unwin, NSW 1998, pp. 81-96
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Writing Desk’
My One True Love, Caro Llywellyn (ed.), Random House, NSW, 1999, pp. 177-199
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘The Witness’
Penguin Australian Summer Stories, Ringwood, Vic, 1999, pp. 271-284
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
‘Theatre Comes to Wombat Creek’
The Bulletin, 29 December 1998/5 January, 1999, pp. 70-75
Faces and Voices, Collected Stories, Viking/Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2000
MISCELLANEOUS
Articles/Essays/transcripts by Amy Witting
‘Words from a stranger’, The Bulletin, 28 December 1993, p. 54
‘Rearing young writers’, Edited transcript of the Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture, Australian Author, Vol. 26, No. 1, Autumn 1994, pp. 16-18
'Good news for the little literati', The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 August 1994, p. 10A
'Surviving', Southerly, (Canonozites - the making of literary reputations in Australia), eds. Delys Bird, Robert Dixon and Susan Lever, Vol. 576, No. 3, Spring 1997, pp. 235-237
'A Journey with the G.A.N.', The Australian's Review of Books, Vol. 2. No. 7, August 1997, p. 21
'The last weeks of November, 1975', The Best Australian Essays 1999, (ed.) Peter Craven, Bookman Press, Melbourne, Victoria, 1999, pp. 1-10
‘Reflections of a couch potato’, The Weekend Australian, 5-6 June 1999, p. 29
'My one true love', The Age, 22 June 1999, p.8
‘Brotherly affection’, The Weekend Australia, 14-15 August 1999, Books Review, p. 13
'Second Sight', The Age, 18 September 1999, p.6
'Posthumous dialogue concerning certain errors in Michael Ackland's Damaged Men', Quadrant, Vol. 45. No. 11, November 2001, pp 37-39
Textbooks
Joan Levick & Chloe Flegman French Vocabulary Part One Rigby, 1961
Joan Levick & Anne Robson Comprendre Pour Communiquer Macmillan, 1973
Joan Levick Each One Teach One–A Course in English The Smith Family, Sydney, 1988
Extracts
Untitled from I for Isobel, in Marmalade's Book of Cats, Liz Cunningham & Anne Melano (eds.), Marmalade Press, NSW 1993, pp.173-177
Untitled from In and Out the Window, The Age, 5 January 1996, p.8
'Go Go Go' from A Change in the Lighting, in Reflections on Marriage, Hazel Hawke (ed), Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1996, pp.136-144
'Isobel, Anna and Stan' (from a work in progress), The Best Australian Stories, 2001, Peter Craven (ed), Black Inc., 2001, pp.15-37
As Editor
Elena’s Journey, Text Publishing, 1997
Television Interviews
Amy Witting interviewed by Peter Ross; discussing A Change in the Lighting ‘Bookchat’, 10 July 1994
Amy Witting interviewed by Dinny O’Hearn; discussing Marriages Video VB 7071, The State Library of NSW
Radio Interviews
Phillip Adams, Michael Heyward, Albert Tucker and Amy Witting discussing Michael Heyward’s The Ern Malley Affair ‘Late Night Live’, ABC Tape, 30 August 1993
Amy Witting interviewed by Cath Keneally; discussing In and Out the Window ‘Arts Breakfast’, 5UV, Saturday 23 September 1995
LITERARY FESTIVALS
Amy Witting has appeared regularly at numerous Australian Writers’ Festivals.
She draws large appreciative audiences and has appeared at:
Adelaide Festival of Arts, Writers’ Week–March 1992 and 1996
Sydney Writers Weekend–January 1998
Melbourne Writers Week–August 1998
Sydney Writers Festival January 2000
Melbourne Writers Festival August 2000
LITERARY PAPERS 1943—1990 — MLMSS 5303 ML 1913/89
Held in The State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library
(This list is a copy of that compiled by The State Library)
1943—1958, 1980 Early Journals RESTRICTED
(There are only two entries for 1980, both short drafts of poems)
1977, 1989 Letters received from Jessica Anderson, 23 April 1977, and Helen Garner, 24 October 1989 RESTRICTED
LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS AND SHORT STORIES
c. 1951 ‘The Garment of Grace’ Carbon typescript with MS annotations
‘The Trap’ Original, edited and final copies. Typescript with MS annotations
‘Lovetalk and the Paranoia Kid’ First version shortened at editor's request. Photocopy of typescript. Photocopy of published version from Westerly, No. 3, September 1978
‘The Birthday Present II’ Photocopy of typescript
1965
‘Goodbye, Ady, Goodbye, Joe’ The New Yorker galleys, 17 February 1965, 16 April 1965 with MS. and typed annotations.
‘Death of a Poet’ Photocopy of typescript. Unpublished 7,000 word story.
Untitled Carbon typescript of unpublished short story
‘The Rescue’ Typescript with MS annotations Published Quadrant 1983. Uncollected
VERSE
1954 ‘Letter to James McAuley’ Written on reading his ‘Letter to John Dryden’, July 1954. Photocopy of typescript, with author's MS note. Unpublished
‘Personal Trivia’ Poems. Carbon typescript with MS annotations
ANNOTATIONS, REMINISCENCES, NOTES
After 1957
Annotations on The First Boke of Fowle Ayres Photocopy of MS annotations added to The First Boke of Fowle Ayres, published 1944
After 1961
Annotations on The Darkening Ecliptic Photocopy of MS and typescript annotations added to The Darkening Ecliptic, p. 22-41, published Lansdowne Press, 1961.
c. 1975 ‘Memories of the constitutional crisis of 1975 and conversations with Sir John Kerr.’ Typescript with MS corrections.
Typescript of verses, ‘Letter from a Labour Voter’ and 'Re Francis James’ to the Editor of the National Times.
Photocopies of news cuttings, 1975.
After 1978
Note on Lynette Phillips, an ex-pupil, and the poem ‘Letter to Lynette from Augsburg’. Carbon typescript
1978—1983
Magazine Dharma which outlines details of Lynette's death.
Printed copies of poems ‘Figure in a landscape, for Lynette Phillips’ and ‘A Letter to Lynette from Augsburg’.
CORRESPONDENCE
1962—1990
Correspondence from 15 April 1962 to 1 January 1990, chiefly being letters received. Correspondents include Hal Porter, 15 April 1962 and Patrick White 6 July 1975
PRINTED MATERIAL
1956—1989
Copies of short stories: ‘The Strait of Hellespont’, 1956
‘A Bottle of Tears’, 1957
‘The Early Settler’, 1968
‘Report on a Rejected Manuscript’, 1974
‘A Piece of This Puzzle is Missing’, 1974 with news cuttings re obscenity accusations.
Reviews of the novels The Visit, 1977—1978 and I for Isobel, 1989
Original wrappings with author's inscriptions
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