Friends & Dark Shapes
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Friends & Dark Shapes (Text Publishing) is a coming-of-age story where the age is 30.
Judges' Report
Friends & Dark Shapes (Text Publishing) is a coming-of-age story where the age is 30; Bedford captures the almost unendurably protracted end of things, the end of a life, the end of a relationship, the end of a sharehouse, the end of a way of being in, and with, the world.
About the author
Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer with a background in journalism, anthropology and literature. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, the Guardian and Griffith Review, and she was a recent Churchill Fellow exploring migrant narratives.
She works and teaches in Sydney in media and global studies.
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