Sylvia Petter

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About Sylvia Petter
Australian in Austria. Writer of short, long, serious, sexy and fun. The story collection, The Past Present, was published in 2000/2001 in paperback and ebook formats by IUMIX, UK. Back Burning won the IP Picks Best Fiction Prize and was published in 2007 by IP, Australia. Mercury Blobs was published by Raging Aardvark, Australia in 2013, and stories appear in German translation in Geflimmer der Vergangenheit in 2014. Stories also appear in the charity anthologies, 100 Stories for Haiti, 50 Stories for Pakistan, A Pint and a Haircut - True Irish Stories, 100 Stories for Queensland, New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan, and Refugees Welcome.
Writing as AstridL, erotic tales may be found at amazon.com/author/astridl
And here´s what a reader in France says in a 4-star review of Mercury Blobs: "You can't take one without the other!
Some stories remind us that everyone leads two lives. Mix and match Sylvia Petter's 'Mercury Blobs' with AstridL's 'Consuming the Muse and you'll see why. A Home is a Home and nice to get back to even after a Picnic at Niagara.
The Christmas Goose may not seem as exciting as a Cherry Strudel but it can sometimes help you get over what was Just Lunch.
Giggles? Laughter? The odd tear or two? I am now sure that The Ways of Love and The Wages of Bliss are the two sides of the same coin."
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Blog postIn 2013/14, I crowdfunded a collection of my stories in German. Eberhard Hain, my first colleague at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Geneva 1973/74), (see previous blogpost) had translated my stories and had given me his rendering thereof on a floppy disc after the Wall had come down. I wanted to have...1 month ago Read more
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Blog post…and we had a super launch at the Schmetterlinghaus in Vienna for the German translations of Ed´s Wife and Other Creatures. Some pix and details are here. And the wonderful audio book of Winds of Change in German translation again by dan*ela beuren is impressively narrated in German by Michael Hain. You can listen to a...1 month ago Read more
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Blog postAll sorts of changes are in the air with the prospect of elections subverting science and sabre rattling to save the political status quo. On that note, I intend to keep testing and wearing my masks. And today, Russia invaded Ukraine! It´s hard thinking about writing, but writing is all I can do, so here´s...3 months ago Read more
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Blog postI heard them outside in Sydney. They were chanting and banging on drums. Free Dom! Free Dom! Who is Dom? What is he? (Don´t answer that or you´ll be sued.) Why do people commend him and want him to be free? Is Dom a master? A mistress? A domestic dominant dominion? An honorific title like...4 months ago Read more
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Blog postAs we move towards the end of another year let me share with you the latest issue of WordCity Literary Journal with its call for submissions for the next issue with the theme Towards the Light. We´re just finalizing that issue now. I´d also like to share my home candles that were lit last Sunday...5 months ago Read more
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Blog postWe are currently in lockdown again but Buch Wien, the Vienna Book Fair, made it through just in time. I went twice thanks to a discounted ticket from the Fair and a complimentary one from Shakespeare & Company where I had just picked up my copy of The Stoning by Peter Papathanasiou. I was thrilled to see...6 months ago Read more
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Blog postBook News! Things have been moving in the background with Flo Do Books now having five books available, of which one is only available there. Hint: it´s in German only. And there is a lovely human interest story percolating in the background of the German version of Winds of Change. May I just put in a plug for...7 months ago Read more
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Blog postScan your QR code and go to my blog. Let me know that it´s you with a captcha. Calm down with a cup of tea. Swill some of it in your mouth. Don´t spit. Open your mind. Think of my daughter in Sydney trying so hard to get a vaccine. Vaccinated ones can still get...9 months ago Read more
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Blog postOn 30 December 1968, I was revaccinated in Sydney for smallpox. I needed proof to be able to leave the country, so the deed was entered into a yellow international certificate of vaccination to adhere to international sanitary regulations covering travel across the world. On 21 June 1973 I was revaccinated in Vienna, and on...9 months ago Read more
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Blog postOf Cats and Cyberspace Hi! My name’s Toulouse. No, not the town in France – one of the aristocats! We were in the SPA, minding our own business with our Mom, Duchesse, when the woman that fed us – we’d just been dragged away from Mom’s milk a couple of days before, but we still...10 months ago Read more
Titles By Sylvia Petter
Crocodiles in the city, street food fandom, a psychic club in a Penang beach resort.
Asian Anthology: New Writing Vol. 1 is a showcase of short stories and place writing by both new and more established prize-winning writers. Some unexpected, a few surreal and others traditional, these are 23 compelling stories of irony, humanity and satire, exploring a range of subject matter to reveal a glimpse of modern Asian society and culture: a funeral in India, a hotel encounter in Japan, a sleepless night in Hong Kong. Modern themes such as the chilling consequences of the environmental impact of logging, deforestation and the barbarism of the shark’s fin soup delicacy press on our collective conscience. Stories of work and travel give insight into the white-guy-in-Asia trope: backpacker, courier and expat company manager. But no Asian fiction is complete without stories of food, family conflict, redemption and reconciliation.
Contributors
Rumaizah Abu Bakar, Patrick Burns, Cheung Louie, E.P. Chiew, Mason Croft, MK Eidson, Marc de Faoite, Jenny Hor, Nenad Jovancic, Lynett Khoh, Doc Krinberg, V.S. Lai, Ewan Lawrie, Winston Lim, Y.K. Lim, Yvonne Lyon, Sandeep Kumar Mishra, Ivy Ngeow, Krishnaveni Panikker, Sylvia Petter, Shafiqah Alliah Razman, San Lin Tun and Yang Ming.
Surprising and entertaining, this anthology captures the paradox of richness, diversity and humor that is Asian culture.
★ Discover fascinating new writing set in Asia today. ★
This year, many Australian communities have been affected by bushfires. People—and animals—have lost their lives and their homes. The Australian Speculative Fiction community asked the question, ‘What can we do to help?’
‘Stories of Hope’ was born from the smoke and ashes, an anthology of fantasy and science fiction tales based on the theme of ‘hope.’ All money raised from the sales of this book will be donated to WWF's Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund and the Red Cross Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund.
This is no ordinary anthology, it’s a message of hope for the future.
This anthology, the fourth from the Bath Flash Fiction Awards, contains 137 micro fictions of 300 words or under by writers from all over the world. The stories cover many topics: relationships in all their forms, familiar, strange, tragic or benign; war and displacement; the climate emergency; historical subjects; the fantastical and surreal. So many different styles and themes. So much to enjoy, make you think, and inspire you to write your own stories.
“From lush description to plot surprises to current events and complicated relationships of all kinds... a wonderful cross-section of flash fiction.”
~Nancy Stohlman, author of Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities
“There’s humor and pathos in these stories, conventional plots alongside innovative structures... personal stories and those concerning larger cultural themes.”
~Christopher Allen author of Other Household Toxins
“A real cornucopia of flash skills...all sparking joy.”
~Vanessa Gebbie author of The Coward’s Tale
This anthology was prepared by an international team of volunteers and includes the donation of a poem in German with English translation by award-winning Austrian poet and writer, Friederike Mayröcker.
Greg Mc Queen, founder of 100 Stories for Haiti and 50 Stories for Pakistan says this:
"You're holding a book that beat the odds. A book made from determination. From compassion. And by holding it - buying it - reading it - telling others about it - you stand with the writers and artists who created it: ordinary people who watched the lives of strangers destroyed and decided that they needed to help."
Celebrate with us Japan and its people.
“Scenes of a young love told with a hopeful and wise view of human powers. Particularly suitable for encouraging young people.” - Stefan T. Hopmann, educational scientist
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"Eine zarte Liebesgeschichte zwischen zwei Jugendlichen, leichtfüßig geschrieben, in der angespannten Zeit des 1. Lockdowns" - Günther Kaip
"A tender love story between two young people, written with a light touch, in the tense time of the 1st lockdown" - Günther Kaip
"One can think of few topical high wires more difficult than sex for a serious writer to leap upon and dance across. The four splendid writers whose thirteen stories comprise Sex with Friends have succeeded in this act with astonishing elan and nuance. These stories are at times, yes, stirring, but they are also redolent of serious literary subtext. And they are, as they should be, a ravishing delight. Sex and art in an intimate embrace. What could be better?"
- Robert Olen Butler, author of 25 books, and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A collection containing all the stories from The Past Present (IUMIX, UK, 2000/2001), Back Burning (IP, Australia, 2007) and Mercury Blobs (Raging Aardvark, 2013), plus some new ones.
About The Past Present:
‘…a good mix of thought-provoking work leavened by the occasional humorous piece. All in all, this is a very strong first collection.’ – Zoe King, Editor, Buzzwords Magazine, UK.
About Back Burning, Best Fiction Award at IP Australia, 2007:
‘Sylvia Petter is a cartographer of dislocated lives. With compassionate precision, she charts the detours, the disruptive incursions of passion, loneliness and loss, the ever-shifting conceptions of home and of the self. Her characters are always on the move through complicated terrain, and the journey is richly rewarding for the reader.’ – Janette Turner Hospital, prizewinning author of the short story collection, Forecast: Turbulence
About Mercury Blobs:
‘The brilliant stories in Sylvia Petter’s Mercury Blobs are sometimes very funny and sometimes very moving, and often they are both at once, which is one of the best tests of a truly serious writer. Moreover, she is a master of the very short fictional forms that have become a crucial expressive medium of the 21st-century sensibility. This is a splendid collection from a gifted writer.’ – Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.
„Winds of Change“ handelt davon, wie gewöhnli- che Menschen auf politische Veränderung reagie- ren und damit zurechtkommen. Die Geschichte spielt in der ostdeutschen Stadt Chemnitz und folgt dem Leben von Dieter S., einem Stasi-Mitar- beiter, und Kai T. , jenem Mann, den er während des DDR-Regimes ausspioniert. Beide stehen loyal zur DDR, wurde sie doch als Bollwerk gegen den Faschismus gegründet.
„Wen können wir lieben? Wem vertrauen? In einer kühnen Neuinterpretation der Gattung Flash Fiction komprimiert Sylvia Petter ein ganzes Epos auf kleinstem Raum. Es ist eine packende, eindringliche und poetische Schilderung histori- scher Ereignisse, voll von Geheimnissen, Aufleh- nung, Revolution, Befreiung und dem Wind politi- scher Veränderung, den wir alle spüren.“
Nancy Stohlman, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction
Now, 20 years on, more than forty creators return to celebrate the survival of this maverick venture with the very best of work past, current and future. Their message to you is that independent publishing houses like IP are, and always will be, an essential part of the cultural landscape even in the face of globalisation and aspiring robots.
Who are these daring writers whose work is Just off Message?
You know how to find them.
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