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Wendy James

Wendy James’s first novel, Out of the Silence, was short-listed for the 2006 Dobbie Award for women’s writing.

Commentary | A Defence of Creative Writing by Wendy James

June-July 2006, no. 282 01 June 2006
In her review of Arabella Edge’s The God of Spring (ABR, March 2006), Melinda Harvey asserts that the novel is ‘classifiable as “artist fiction”, that boom genre of literary fiction ...’ a genre that involves, she declares, ‘a kind of “painting by numbers”, which is why it’s not surprising that many of its best exponents, Edge included, are graduates of Creative Writing departmen ... (read more)