Jane Turner Goldsmith

Jane Turner Goldsmith has published a novel, Poinciana, which was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Prize, and short stories online and in various literary magazines including Overland, The Saltbush Review, Wordrunner eChapbooks, and the Boroondara Literary Awards anthology. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, her topic being “The Essential Worker: Psychological First Aid and the Composite Novel.” This eChapbook is an excerpt from her composite novel by the same name, and the second collection by Jane we have published. In 2016 we published her seven-story collection Beyond the Line.

Four of the stories in The Essential Worker were previously published as follows:

• “Chicken,” Social Alternatives Journal, Vol. 41:3, 2021
• “Dumpster Zone,” Jump: The Time Is Now anthology (themed 'Courage'), 2022, Hawkeye Publishing
  Also shortlisted in the Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition 2021
• “Floral Arrangements,” The Saltbush Review, Issue 3
• “Shiny Shoes” placed equal second in the Boroondara Literary Awards and was published in their 2021 anthology.