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Narrelle Harris

Narrelle M. Harris (also credited as Narrelle Harris) is a Melbourne-based writer. She wrote the award winning short play Stalemate in 2003. [1]

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Biography

Harris was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. [2]

Harris's earliest writing, dating back to the early 1990s, was through science fiction fandom, including work based in the Star Trek, Blake's 7 and V universes. Fanzines which she wrote and/or edited include Phoenix (B7), Scenario (The Greatest American Hero), Out of the War Zone (V), and Inconsequential Parallax (genzine), which was nominated for a Ditmar Award in 1992. [3]

The Opposite of Life (2007) is a contemporary vampire novel set in Melbourne, told from the point of view of a young librarian. [4] Harris has discussed online and on radio about how the second book in the series — tentatively titled Walking Shadows — was completed but was considered unsuitable, forcing her to start writing it again from scratch. [5] [6] Witch Faith (2007), was considered by Library Journal to have "strong female characters and a gracefully told story." [7]

Harris has also written film and theatre reviews, the latter as a reviewer and feature writer for the now defunct online theatre magazine, Stage Left. This site is now preserved in the Pandora archives. [8]

In 2006, she appeared alongside Scott Brennan in the short film Outland as "Ginny". [9]

Harris was a guest, in 2009, on episode 167 of the Boxcutters podcast, [10] talking about television vampires. She is currently the resident literary "expert" on the weekly radio show "The Outland Institute" on Joy 94.9. [11]

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References

  1. [theatre-oz] Bunbury Winners. Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. "Narrelle M. Harris". Clandestine Press. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  3. The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1992 Ditmar Awards Archived 18 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Bradford, K. Tempest (n.d.). "The Opposite of Life". Fantasy Magazine. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  5. "Book Learning: The Art of Destruction". 13 August 2008.
  6. http://www.cpod.org.au/download.php?id=1833
  7. Cassada, Jackie (15 February 2007). "Witch Faith" . Library Journal. 132 (3): 116. Retrieved 17 January 2016 via EBSCO.
  8. Pandora Archive – Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia
  9. Outland (2006)
  10. "Ep 167: Narrelle M. Harris, Demons, Bigpond Ads - Boxcutters". Archived from the original on 13 February 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
  11. "The Podcast". 24 July 2009.