Jane Downing, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Jane Downing

Jane Downing’s stories and poems have been published around Australia and overseas, including in Griffith Review, Big Issue, Antipodes, Westerly, Island, Overland, Meanjin, Cordite and Best Australian Poems. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and in 2023 won the AAALS (American Association of Australasian Literary Studies) Fiction Award. Her novel, ‘The Sultan’s Daughter,’ was released by Obiter Publishing in 2020. She can be found at janedowning.wordpress.com

Literature·Storytelling

Something Gave

Something Gave He told her to eat with her eyes first.It was a degustation menu. She played up her naïveté and asked if that had anything to do with disgusting. Ivo missed the twinkle in her eye, the mock coquette in the

by Jane Downing

Fictional Arts·Literature·Storytelling

After Lazarus

She left the bright lights of the promenade when the crowd began to feel unpredictable. She could breathe more easily as she headed away from the coastline with its seething beach and festival atmosphere, and into the balm of the darker streets.

by Jane Downing

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Something Gave

After Lazarus