Edwina Preston

Edwina Preston is a Melbourne-based writer and musician. Preston is the author of a biography of Australian artist Howard Arkley, Not Just a Suburban Boy (Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002),[1][2] and the novel The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer (University of Queensland Press, 2012).[3][4][5] Her writing and reviews have appeared in The Age, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Heat, Island and Griffith Review.[6]

Edwina Preston
NationalityAustralian
Occupation(s)writer and musician
Notable work
  • Not Just a Suburban Boy
  • The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer

She released a spoken-word CD, Hirsute, in 1997 (ABC Audio) and performed around Melbourne. Alicia Sometimes described Preston as "melting the stage with a harpist by her side".[7][8] She plays keyboards and sings in Harry Howard and the NDE (Spooky Records) with Harry Howard, Dave Graney and Clare Moore, and in ATOM (IT Records)[9][10] with Harry Howard and Ben Hepworth (Repairs, Exek). She is a featured vocalist in the occasional performing group Pop Crimes: The Songs of Rowland S Howard.[11]

In May 2021, Wakefield Press announced that they will publish Edwina's new novel, "provisionally titled Veda Grey" in May 2022.[12] The book was subsequently published as Bad Art Mother and shortlisted for the 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[13] and shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize.[14]

References
  1. "An imagination in need - Document - Gale OneFile: News". go.gale.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  2. Simmonds, Diana (16 February 2002). "Imperfect Portrait". The Australian.
  3. Krauth, Kirsten (26 October 2012). "Greatest show on Earth". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  4. "Edwina Preston". www.australianbookreview.com.au. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  5. Austin, Michelle (7 May 2013). "Review of The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer by Edwina Preston". Transnational Literature Review – via Trove.nla.gov.au.
  6. "The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer". www.female.com.au. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  7. Edwina Preston – Hirsute (1997, CD), retrieved 7 June 2021
  8. Sometimes, Alicia (1 June 2014). "Radio Laneways and the Melbourne Sound". Archived from the original on 12 June 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  9. "In Every Dream Home, by Atom". Atom. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  10. gimmiezine (31 March 2020). "ATOM's Harry Howard: "Universally in art, death and sex and love are the big themes… I'm constantly writing songs that mention death"". Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie Zine. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  11. "pop crimes". The I-94 Bar. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  12. "Wakefield Press acquires Edwina Preston's bohemian 'Veda Grey'". Wakefield Press. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  13. "Bad Art Mother". State Library of NSW. 3 February 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  14. Harmon, Steph (29 March 2023). "Stella prize 2023 shortlist: small publishers dominate Australian literary award". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 March 2023.


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