The Salt Madonna
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Catherine Noske is a lecturer in creative writing and editor of Westerly Magazine. She grew up in south-west Victoria, spending as much of her time as possible riding horses out in the bush. Now, she lives and works at the University of Western Australia in Perth, but still spends all her spare time with Izzy the horse.
Catherine’s PhD considered white Australian anxieties in the writing landscape, and her current writing and research focuses on the legacy of colonial narratives in place-making within contemporary Australian literature. She was awarded the AD Hope Prize (2013) from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for work in this area, as well as the Elyne Mitchell Prize for Rural Women Writers (2008 and 2009), and shortlisted in the Dorothy Hewett Award (2015). Catherine has been a judge for the ALS Gold Medal, the WA Premier’s Book Prize and the TAG Hungerford Prize, and she is currently serving as a board member for Writing WA. This is her debut novel.
This is a work of fiction. Characters, institutions and organisations mentioned in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously without any intent to describe actual conduct.
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Excerpt from The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Published by Vintage. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited © 2017.
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