Sue Reidy

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Sue Reidy
LanguageEnglish, Italian
NationalityNew Zealander
GenreFiction, poetry, short stories
Website
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Sue Reidy is a New Zealand author and designer.

Reidy has a professional background in graphic design and illustration, including designing book jackets. [1] She has taught at the Auckland University of Technology and been a judge in the PANZ Book Design Awards. [2]

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Published fiction by Reidy includes:

Work by Reidy has also been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies, including: New Zealand Listener , Metro , Landfall, Sunday Star Times , Australian Women’s Weekly, Penguin 25 New Fiction (Penguin, 1998), Penguin Book of Contemporary Short Stories (Penguin, 1989), Wee Girls (1996, Spinifex Press), and Good-bye to Romance (1989, Allen & Unwin). [1] Her work was commended by Paula Green in the 2007 Best New Zealand Poems collection. [3]

Reidy is based in Auckland, New Zealand. [1]

Awards

Reidy won the 1987 Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award. In 1995 she was the runner-up for the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award. [1]

The Visitation was shortlisted in fiction section of the 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. [1]

In 2000 she was awarded the Buddle Finlay Sargeson Writers Fellowship, with James Brown and Charlotte Grimshaw. [4]

In 2015, her manuscript Small Steps to Happiness was shortlisted in the Ashton Wylie Book and Manuscript Awards. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Sue Reidy". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  2. "PANZ Book Design Awards Archive". PANZ Book Design Awards. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  3. "Best New Zealand Poems 2007". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  4. "Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship". Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  5. "Book Awards". Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust. Retrieved 2 December 2017.