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pip Yelland
life | death | hope
pip yelland
writer
About
READERS HAVE FORSAKEN post-modernism’s relativism, paranoia and fragmentation and are tired of pseudo-modernism’s ignorance, fanaticism and anxiety. Readers are exhausted – they want gripping stories in which characters grow and do not vacillate like fronds in sea kelp forests, moving but not going anywhere.
My worldview is optimistic about people’s efforts to live good lives while sceptical about their ability to do this in a zeitgeist of philosophical materialism. My protagonists and antagonists are complex with redeeming and damning qualities.
Characters face serious problems, sometimes using dry humour to see truths about other characters. My writing styles include fiction (literary and historical), third-person narrative, black humour and faction.
Awards include Fellowship of Australian Writers (Far North Coast, Macarthur, Manly Peninsula), Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival, Judah Waten National Short Story, Karkaroc Short Story, National Australia Bank Biennial Article, University of Canberra National Short Story, Warana Festival Brisbane and Writers’ World.
Publications in which my work’s been published include Ash Magazine, Australian Writers’ Journal, Heartland, Hermes University of Sydney Union, Muse, Naked Pomegranate Collected Women’s Writing, New England Review, Redoubt University of Canberra, Social Alternatives, University of Central Queensland Press, Verso and WILDfictions stories of love sex death (Cliff St Publishing).
My journalism has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian. Awards include a residential scholarship in Tokyo (Australia-Japan Foundation) and photography (The Courier-Mail). #
My worldview is optimistic about people’s efforts to live good lives while sceptical about their ability to do this in a zeitgeist of philosophical materialism. My protagonists and antagonists are complex with redeeming and damning qualities.
Characters face serious problems, sometimes using dry humour to see truths about other characters. My writing styles include fiction (literary and historical), third-person narrative, black humour and faction.
Awards include Fellowship of Australian Writers (Far North Coast, Macarthur, Manly Peninsula), Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival, Judah Waten National Short Story, Karkaroc Short Story, National Australia Bank Biennial Article, University of Canberra National Short Story, Warana Festival Brisbane and Writers’ World.
Publications in which my work’s been published include Ash Magazine, Australian Writers’ Journal, Heartland, Hermes University of Sydney Union, Muse, Naked Pomegranate Collected Women’s Writing, New England Review, Redoubt University of Canberra, Social Alternatives, University of Central Queensland Press, Verso and WILDfictions stories of love sex death (Cliff St Publishing).
My journalism has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian. Awards include a residential scholarship in Tokyo (Australia-Japan Foundation) and photography (The Courier-Mail). #