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Maps Of The World With Dog	This story was commissioned for an anthology to be edited by Debra Adelaide for Random House in 2003. I have given here only the first few hundred words of the text, and will add the remainder when the book is published.
Open For Inspection	A new Courtney Frome novel Chapter One
Papers From Byron Bay	Papers From Byron Bay
Australian federal election 2004	Australian federal election 2004 NOTE: This story will make more sense to Australians. THE CHARISMAGIZ
Fair Game - The Story Of The ‘Princess Royal’	I have drawn historical material from the diary of Catherine Price, from the ship’s records, and from letters exchanged between Governor Arthur of Van Diemen’s Land and Viscount Goderich and other authorities in England.
The Fat/Skin/Jesus Solution	A lecture to students of Creative Writing at Deakin University - May 2002
Gentlemen Start Your Nailguns	Reflections on the Sale of Real Estate in Melbourne (1840 - 2002)
Readers' And Teachers' Guide To - The Essential Bird	A Guide For Readers/\Teachers/\Students Of ~~The Essential Bird~~ In Consultation With The Author
Cherry Black Velvet Thoughts	'Shades of Noir - film and novel' a seminar at the International Federation of Teachers of English, Melbourne 2003
September Eleven Quilt Exhibition	September Eleven Quilt Exhibition
What World is This	from Best Stories Under the Sun 2004
Cape Grimm	The first focus of the narrative is on the far north west tip of Tasmania, at a place called Cape Grimm, named by Matthew Flinders when he and George Bass explored the waters in the region in 1798.
Cats And Dogs Of Spain
Who Am I	This is a story of friendship and the power of the written word.
A Memoir Of Auberon Waugh
About Carmel Bird	an entry from The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
Automatic Teller	A provocative collection of stories and essays in which Carmel Bird meditates on the heart, mind and inspiration.
Automatic Teller: A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow
Automatic Teller: Afterword
Automatic Teller: Conservatory
Automatic Teller: Fact or Fiction - Who Knows, Who Cares
Automatic Teller: Introduction
Burning Desire: a reflection on writing, inspiration and imagination	a reflection on writing, inspiration and imagination
Anthologies	The Penguin Century of Australian Stories The Stolen Children Daughters & Fathers Red Hot Notes Australian Short Stories
Review Of Cape Grimm	REVIEW OF CAPE GRIMM Reviewer: Dorothy Johnston Canberra Times 14/02/04
Writing Manuals	Writing Manuals
Children's Books	Children's Books
Reviews & Interviews	Review Of Cape Grimm Review Of The White Garden Review Of Cape Grimm Interview 2006
Short Stories	"A Telephone Call For Genevieve Snow" "The Isolation of the Deciding Factor" "The Golden Moment" "Made Glorious Summer" "My Beloved is Mine" "Fair Game" "Waiting to be Seated" "Her Voice Was Full Of Money"
Memoirs	Summer at Port Arthur 1953
Essays	"Reflections on Keeping a Writer's Journal" "Mathinna" "Jane Campion's Piano" "Living in the Suburbs" "Guadalupe" "Maps of the World with Dog" "A Memoir of Auberon Waugh"
Literary Novels	Child of the Twilight Cape Grimm Red Shoes The White Garden The Bluebird Café
Collections	The Essential Bird Automatic Teller The Common Rat Woodpecker Point Births, Deaths and Marriages
Latest Books	Home Truth Child of the Twilight
Crime & Comic Novels	Unholy Writ Open for Inspection Cherry Ripe Crisis
Review Of The White Garden	Reviewer: Nicholas Birns - Antipodes 1995
Books	Literary Novels Crime & Comic Novels Short Story Collections How To Write Anthologies Children’s
Australian Short Stories
Carmel Bird - Books At The Beach House
Gender and Writing	The following essay celebrates the 1999 republication of my comic novel Crisis
Eastern Libraries Short Story Competition 2000	The following piece is the transcript of a speech I made at the Belgrave Library where I was invited to judge a competition in the writing of short stories.
Carmel Bird - My First Typewriter
Translating Paradise	This is an essay I wrote for the new collection The Nature of Gardens which is edited by Peter Timms, published by Allen and Unwin
Penguin Century Of Australian Stories	Edited by Carmel Bird First Published by Penguin Australia in 2000 Republished by Penguin 2007
from The White Garden	The Elephant Thoughts Of Ambrose Goddard
Unholy Writ	A crime novel - shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award in 2000
Cherry Ripe	A rich poetic narrative that chronicles the lives of three generations of Tasmanian women
Chinese Carpets	An essay
Crisis	First published under the pen name Jack Power later published under the author's own name
Daughters and Fathers	Reflections In My Father's Mirrors
from Dear Writer	Dear Writer was first published by McPhee Gribble in 1988 and later in the UK by Virago
Dear Writer: Preface	Author's Preface To The New Edition
Dear Writer: Letter One	So You Wanted to be Agatha Christie The importance of writing about about things you know
Dear Writer: Letter Two	'A' for Alive; 'D' for Dead The use of Adverbs and Adjectives
Dear Writer: Letter Three	Top and Tail Looking at Beginnings and Endings
The Isolation Of The Deciding Factor	Published 2003 in Forever Shores - ed Peter Macnamara & Margaret Winch - Wakefield Press
Double Fatality
Cries Unheard	By Gitta Sereny - a brief review
Fresh Blood, Old Wounds: Tasmania and Guns	An essay
The Black Virgin of Guadalupe
Interview From Atlantis Journal	‘Time and Tide’: An Interview with Carmel Bird
Jenni And The Poets	Essay published in Overland, a quarterly magazine of Australian poetry
Keep Off The Grass	Bird On The Wire An online column by Australian writer Carmel Bird. No. 11
The Mouth	A short novel for young teenagers
Made Glorious Summer	Published in Meanjin (November 2002) and also in Best Australian Essays 2002
My Beloved is Mine and I am His
Not Now Jack -- I'm Writing a Novel	A novel… gives readers and writers rare insights into the imaginatiion and life of a fiction writer, into the way a story develops from the germ of an idea to the finished work
P.D. Hepworth, Architect	from The Common Rat
PDF files available for download	From Red Shoes From The White Garden From The Bluebird Cafe From Crisis From Automatic Teller From Dear Writer From The Common Rat From Daughters And Fathers A Story Burning Desire Fresh Blood, Old Wounds A Desperate Act The Piano
Possum	Bird On The Wire An online column by Australian writer Carmel Bird. No. 12
Pussyfoot	Published 2003 in Forever Shores - ed Peter Macnamara & Margaret Winch
Red Hot Notes	An anthology
Red Hot Notes, Introduction
Red Shoes, review by Stephanie Dale	Weekend Magazine, The Australian, February 1998
Red Shoes: Chapter One
Red Shoes: Chapter Two
Red Shoes: Chapter Three
Red Shoes: Chapter Four
Red Shoes: Chapter Five
Red Shoes: Index to sample chapters	Extracts from Red Shoes, a novel and CD-Rom by Australian writer Carmel Bird
Red Shoes: The Footnote	Saint Bartholomew
Red Shoes: The Footnote	Couch
Red Shoes: The Footnote	Scarlet
Red Shoes: The Footnote	The Snow Queen
Red Shoes: The Footnote	Scheherazade
Red Shoes: The Footnote	Catherine de' Medici (1519‚1589)
My Suburb 2001
The Bluebird Cafe
The Cassowary's Quiz	This is a picture book for children from age three.
The Common Rat	Twenty-nine stories and essays bring into sharp focus the beauty violence and irony of everyday life.
The Girl in the Freud Museum
The Man in the Red Car	from Not Now Jack -- I'm Writing a Novel
The Piano	An essay on Jane Campion's film
The Piano, essay by Carmel Bird (pt1)
The Piano, essay by Carmel Bird (pt2)
The Picture of Doreen Gray
The Golden Moment
The Stolen Children - Their Stories	Editor's Introduction
The Stolen Children - Their Stories	Introduction (part one)
The Stolen Children - Their Stories	Introduction (part two)
The Stolen Children - Their Stories	Introduction (part three)
The White Garden	The White Garden is a compelling portrait of a man whose lust for power is expressed in his treatment of psychiatric patients
The White Garden - Chapter 28	The Violetta Letters
The White Garden, review by Nicholas Birns	from Antipodes
TheWhite Garden, review by Michael Sharkey	The Australian, October 1995
Waiting to be Seated
Writing a Novel	A web piece by Carmel Bird
Archive	from Dec 1998 to Nov 2006
Birhs Deaths and Marriages	This is a collection of short fiction published in 1983
Exit Queen Victoria	The essay published in Meanjin the literary magazine from Melbourne University - December 2001
from Cherry Ripe	Chapter One
from Crisis	Chapter One
from The Bluebird Cafe	Chapter One
Federation And Bunyip Bluegum	a brief reflection on an Australian literary canon
from Automatice Teller	The Horse Might Talk
Climbing The Hills Of Nowhere Growing Up As A Writer In Tasmania	The lecture delivered as the Second McDermott Lecture at the University of Barcelona, December, 2001
Indigenous Characters In Australian Fiction	This text was delivered as a talk at the University of Granada in December 2001
jayneyre@window	Part 1
jayneyre@window	Part 2
jayneyre@window	Part 3
Mathinna	A Short Strange Secret Misty Smoky Mysterious History
Reading	An essay
Ties of Blood	Short Story translated into Czech
Review - Century Of Australian Stories	By Sian Pryor on ABC Radio National (Australia)
from The Woodpecker Toy Fact	This collection of short fiction was published in Australia with the title The Woodpecker Toy Fact and in USA with the title Woodpecker Point.
Writing Memoir	The ultimate guide to writing memoir