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Paddy O'Reilly

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Paddy O'Reilly is a writer from Victoria, Australia. Her work has been published and broadcast widely both in Australia and internationally.

Paddy's short story collection, The End of the World was released to critical acclaim in April, 2007. The stories in the collection have won a number of national and international story awards including 'The Age', the 'Judah Waten', 'Zoetrope All-Story' and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation .

The End of the World was chosen as one of the year's best books in various publications from Australian Book Review to The Financial Review. It was shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

Paddy's debut novel, The Factory, was also in the best books of the year lists in Australian Book Review and the Sydney Morning Herald and was Highly Commended in the FAW Christina Stead Award for Fiction. It was broadcast in fifteen episodes as the ABC Radio National Book Reading during July 2009.

Her novella 'Deep Water' was published in 2007 as one of four in the novella anthology, Love and Desire .

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She has also written screenplays and worked as additional screenwriter for films which have been nominated for AFI awards and screened nationally and internationally.

Paddy has been Asialink writer-in-residence in Japan, a fellow at Varuna: the Writers' House, writer-in-residence at Kelly Steps Cottage, Tasmania, and The Lockup, Newcastle, presenter and reader at the International Conference on the Short Story in Toronto and a full fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, USA.

Paddy has spent several years living in Japan, working as a copywriter and translator.

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Books from Paddy O'Reilly

Peripheral Vision: Stories

The Best Australian Stories 2016

The Great Unknown

The Sleepers Almanac 2006 - The Nervous System

Father Figures: in Praise (and Defense) of Dads

Stingers / The Nightmares (RAF Vol 10 issue 6)

Friday Nights / A Thousand Miles (RAF Volume 4: Issue 2)

Meanjin Vol 82, No 4

The Factory

The Wonders

The End of the World