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Fiction
Paperback book with dust jacket
Beth Border, the narrator of this vividly realised short novel, shares with the reader her fixation with an imaginary friend, Anastasia. ‘Together’, they try to navigate Beth’s place in a world undermined by her deep complex sense of responsibility for the death of a friend, Tully Herbert. As perceptive as it is alert and ironic, this work sweeps the reader into the specifically fraught and shifting psychology of an adolescent girl, while achieving the fine double act of feeling timeless and universal.
Philip Canon is a writer and educator who teaches English and English Language in an independent secondary college in Melbourne. He has also worked in a range of educational contexts in Auckland, London and Frankfurt. He has taught creative writing through the RMIT Short Courses program, and his short fiction has been published in literary journals and anthologies.
Fiction
Paperback book with dust jacket
Beth Border, the narrator of this vividly realised short novel, shares with the reader her fixation with an imaginary friend, Anastasia. ‘Together’, they try to navigate Beth’s place in a world undermined by her deep complex sense of responsibility for the death of a friend, Tully Herbert. As perceptive as it is alert and ironic, this work sweeps the reader into the specifically fraught and shifting psychology of an adolescent girl, while achieving the fine double act of feeling timeless and universal.
Philip Canon is a writer and educator who teaches English and English Language in an independent secondary college in Melbourne. He has also worked in a range of educational contexts in Auckland, London and Frankfurt. He has taught creative writing through the RMIT Short Courses program, and his short fiction has been published in literary journals and anthologies.