The Dead Aviatrix Carmel Bird Contemporary Women This is the title story from my new collection, The Dead Aviatrix: Eight short stories. It was inspired by something that happened to me as the writer of a novel some years ago. It was an awful and troubling thing, and I wondered for a long time a...
The Dead Aviatrix: the story behind the stories Carmel Bird Short Stories The Dead Aviatrix is an ebook published by Spineless Wonders in November 2017. It is the first book of short stories in the Spineless Wonders new Capsule Collection series. The eight stories in The Dead Aviatrix are not obviously connected with e...
My Hearts Are Your Hearts Carmel Bird Short Stories What are the hares getting up to among the sunflowers? Who is paying $6000 for a raincoat? The priest is good, kind, adored, believed – but can the schoolgirl trust him? Who kills his wife and dumps the body in the pool? What if you find your deat...
Dear Writer ... Revisited Carmel Bird Fiction People who are beginning to write fiction, particularly people living in remote places, often send their manuscripts to an assessor, and the letters in the original edition of Dear Writer were inspired by correspondence I had with writers when I w...
From Paradise to Wonderland Carmel Bird Short Stories The story appears in my collection 'My Hearts Are Your Hearts' (Spineless Wonders Publishing). It is accompanied in the collection by the essay which I have added here.
Figures in the Landscape Carmel Bird Non-Fiction Figures in the Landscape is a short essay of my musings on literary critics, as well as writers and readers.
