Writing Credits

Linda Visman’s Published Work

Now and Then: My Thompson/Atkinson Antecedents: First edition, self-published in Burra, South Australia, 2002. Second, expanded edition, self-published in Wangi Wangi, NSW, 2005

“I Remember When”, title poem, published in I Remember When: A Collection of Memories Volume 1, compiled and edited by Julie Athenasiou, Legacy Books, Ringwood North, Victoria, Australia, 2006

“Just Like This”, short story: published in Blue Crow Magazine, First edition, Mary Celeste Press, Sydney, NSW Australia, April 2010

The following poems and short stories were published in We Are Australian, (memoir anthology) editor & publisher Linda Brooks, Cooranbong, NSW, Australia, 2011:

Short Stories:  “Pray for us, Sinners, October 1961”

“Coming a Cropper”

“Census – Bush Style”

“Fruits of Our labour”

      Poems:    “Sunrise from Dad’s Window,  July 2008”

“Save the Preacher!”

“Rivers of Life”

“The Past Lies Forgotten”, poem: published in Wood, Brick and Stone: the Making of the Hunter, Catchfire Press, Dangar, NSW, Australia, 2011

“Petrol for Sex”, poem: published in No Printer Zone Magazine, Mary Celeste Press, Sydney, NSW Australia, October, 2011

Ben’s Challenge, children’s, young adult and adult novel, written, edited and published by L.M. Visman, Wangi Wangi, NSW, Australia, 2011.

“Story of a Dream”, published in Skive Magazine: Real Dreams issue, Mary Celeste Press, Newcastle, NSW Australia, June 2012.

“Our First parents’ Meeting”, published in Skive Magazine: Memoirs issue, Mary Celeste Press, Newcastle, NSW Australia, September 2012.

Small stone poem included in A Blackbird Sings: a Small Stone Anthology, Fiona Robid & Kaspalita Thompson (eds.), Woodsmoke Press, Malvern, U.K., October 2012.

Two poems: “Old Man Kangaroo” and “Lace Monitor at Neath”, published in Animal Encounters, Catchfire Press, Dangar, NSW, Australia, November, 2012.

The following short stories have been published in Waltzing Matilda & other Australian yarns,  editor & publisher Linda Brooks, Cooranbong, NSW, Australia, 2014:

“Quartpot’s Hippo”

“Black and White”

“Introduction to a Remote Community”

“Disaster Strikes”

“First Impressions”

“Census – Bush Style”

Thursday’s Child, Y.A. and adult historical novel, self-published Wangi Wangi, N.S.W. Australia, February, 2018

I have also had numerous poems, short stories and articles published in many issues of Hunter Professional Arts magazine from 2012 to the present.

 

Competitions:

“Rivers of Life”, poem: Commended in Grenfell Henry Lawson Literary Festival Competition, NSW, 2008.

“First Impressions”, short story: third prize in Writer’s Friend Literary Competition, W.A., 2009

“Black and White”, short story: winner of Alice Sinclair Memorial Writing Competition 2010, Lake Macquarie Fellowship of Australian Writers, N.S.W.

Poems “In Stitches” and “Hunters”, Commended in the Morisset Show Poetry Competition, NSW, 2016.

Poem, “Tosca, Northern Territory”: second place in Alice Sinclair Memorial Writing Competition 2018, Lake Macquarie Fellowship of Australian Writers, N.S.W.