Stephanie Johnson is the author of several collections of poetry and of short stories, some plays and adaptations, and many fine novels. The New Zealand Listener commented that “Stephanie Johnson is a writer of talent and distinction. Over the course of an award-winning career – during which she has written plays, poetry, short stories and novels – she has become a significant presence in the New Zealand literary landscape, a presence cemented and enhanced by her roles as critic and creative writing teacher.” The Shag Incident won the Montana Deutz Medal for Fiction in 2003, and Belief was shortlisted for the same award. Stephanie has also won the Bruce Mason Playwrights Award and Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, and was the 2001 Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland. Many of her novels have been published in Australia, America and the United Kingdom. She co-founded the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival with Peter Wells in 1999.The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature describes Johnson”s writing as “marked by a dry irony, a sharp-edged humour that focuses unerringly on the frailties and foolishness of her characters . . . There is compassion, though, and sensitivity in the development of complex situations”, and goes on to note that “a purposeful sense of . . . larger concerns balances Johnson”s precision with the small details of situation, character and voice that give veracity and colour”.Her writing has been described as “skilful, insightful, witty”, displaying “a truly light touch” (New Zealand Herald). Belief, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana Book Awards, was called by Sara Wilson in The Historical Novel Review (UK) “a powerful novel, unsentimental and unflinching in its portrayal of the potentially destructive power of love and faith”. In North & South, Warwick Roger wrote that Music from a Distant Room saw Johnson in “top form”- a novel which is “immensely satisfying, utterly believable”.Reviewing The Open World in The New Zealand Listener, John McCrystal praised the “deftness of touch” with which Johnson renders her characters: “it”s often no more than a little detail, such as the habitual movement of a muscle in a face that brings a character to life”. After commending the lightness with which she wears her obviously extensive research, he noted the care she takes with language – “Best of all is her feel for the elegance of the Victorian turn of phrase.”Novels include: Crimes of Neglect (1992; short-listed for Wattie”s Book Awards 1993); The Heart”s Wild Surf (1996, and Dymock”s/Quote Unquote Readers” Poll”s Best New Zealand Book 1996; published in the United States in 2003 as The Sailmaker”s Daughter); The Whistler (1998; third prize in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 1999); Belief (2000; short-listed for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2001); The Shag Incident (2002;Deutz Medal for Fiction, Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2003); Music From A Distant Room (2004; long-listed 2009 Impac Prize, Dublin); John Tomb”s Head (2006; long-listed 2006 Impac Prize, Dublin); Swimmers” Rope (2008; long-listed 2009 Impac Prize, Dublin); The Open World (2012); and The Writing Class (2013).Short story collections include: The Glass Whittler (1989); All the Tenderness Left in the World (1993); and Drowned Sprat and Other Stories (2005).Poetry collections include: The Bleeding Ballerina (1986) and Moody Bitch (2003).Stage plays include: Accidental Phantasies; Folie a Deux; Strange Children; and Goodni…
26 Ebooks by Stephanie Johnson
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Direct and Indirect Human Contributions to Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes
Human-induced climate change is an important environmental issue worldwide, as scientific studies increasingly demonstrate that human activities are changing the Earth’s climate. Even if dramatic red …
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Direct and Indirect Human Contributions to Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes
Human-induced climate change is an important environmental issue worldwide, as scientific studies increasingly demonstrate that human activities are changing the Earth’s climate. Even if dramatic red …
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Stephanie Johnson: John Tomb’s Head
Returning to the biting and hilarious satire of contemporary New Zealand conveyed so well in the prize-winning The Shag Incident, this is a daring, astute and rollicking novel. John Tomb saw more of …
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Stephanie Johnson: Music from a Distant Room
A moving novel about a blind son with a love for music that surpassed sight and gave him a vision uniquely his own. A fortnight after jazz pianist Carl Tyler’s funeral, his lover Tamara has one week …
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Stephanie Johnson: Belief
An epic novel of love and religion that sweeps across New Zealand and America at the turn of the nineteenth century. In 1899 William Mc Quiggan leaves his young Australian wife and new-born twins in …
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Stephanie Johnson: Whistler
A brilliant novel about history, the forgetting and rewriting of it, and a satire on a society that has lost compassion in the process.Smooch is a ‘Whistler’, a genetically altered lapdog with specia …
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Stephanie Johnson: Drowned Sprat and Other Stories
A collection of short stories to dip into and devour, by a prize-winning writer.These 23 stories show the breadth of Stephanie Johnson’s fine writing. It features poignant insights as well as her sha …
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Stephanie Johnson: Heart’s Wild Surf
Romantic, funny and surprising, this novel is a bold exploration of love in a time of confusion. In Fiji at the end of 1918, the distant Great War is drawing to a close and Spanish flu is raging. Twe …
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Stephanie Johnson: Swimmers’ Rope
A powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours at the turn of the twenti …
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Stephanie Johnson: Shag Incident
Darkly satirical and wickedly funny, this prize-winning novel takes a tilt at a wide range of contemporary matters. What happened that connects a diverse group of characters, along with an ex-All Bla …
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Stephanie Johnson: Writing Class
This unique novel is both a compelling love story and an insightful writing manual. ‘Writers take what we learn of human nature and, fuelled by our longings for other existences and other times, forg …
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Stephanie Johnson: Open World
A fascinating novel about secrets, finding a home and early colonial New Zealand. ‘I miss my smiling son more than any other man before or since.’London 1866. Elizabeth Smith is struggling to survive …
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Stephanie Johnson: Night I Got My Tuckie
Wry and insightful, this short story is told by a young American girl, who is all too knowing about her own world, but ignorant about the Kiwi strangers she meets. When Ruthie’s father needs a drink, …
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Hardy Griffin & Stephanie Johnson: Novel Slices Issue 1
Novel Slices is a publication dedicated solely to novel excerpts. Each issue includes five previously unpublished novel excerpts for connoisseurs of literature across genres. Each excerpt is a winner …
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Stephanie Johnson: West Island
Five notable twentieth-century New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation by award-winning author Stephanie Johnson.Roland Wakelin …
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Stephanie Johnson: West Island
Five notable twentieth-century New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation by award-winning author Stephanie Johnson.Roland Wakelin …
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Hardy Griffin & Stephanie Johnson: Novel Slices Issue 3
Novel Slices is the only publication dedicated solely to novel excerpts. Each issue includes five previously unpublished novel excerpts for connoisseurs of literature across genres. Each excerpt is a …
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Hardy Griffin & Stephanie Johnson: Novel Slices Issue 4
Novel Slices is the only literary journal dedicated solely to novel excerpts. Twice a year, we publish new and early-career novelists who are the winners of our biannual contest in September/October …
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Hardy Griffin & Stephanie Johnson: Novel Slices Issue 5
Novel Slices is the only publication dedicated solely to novel excerpts. This issue includes the following novel excerpts: A Forever Opposition by Sean Connell The Satin Gunmetal Sky by Shawn Goodman …
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Stephanie Johnson & Erin VanLaningham: Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies
The concept of ‘vocation’ has garnered significant attention as a means of speaking about purposeful living and the multiple responsibilities of civic life, which converge with the broader goals of l …
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Stephanie Johnson & Erin VanLaningham: Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies
The concept of ‘vocation’ has garnered significant attention as a means of speaking about purposeful living and the multiple responsibilities of civic life, which converge with the broader goals of l …
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Hardy Griffin & Stephanie Johnson: Novel Slices Issue 6
Novel Slices publishes novel excerpts twice a year of any genre. In this isue, our featured authors are: Dinah Cox, Samantha Facciolo, Darian Bianco, B.J. Atwood-Fukuda, and Gina Margolies, with cove …
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Stephanie Johnson: Booze & Cheers
Step into a World of Unforgettable Parties Imagine a world where every party you throw becomes the talk of the town, a memory etched in the minds of your guests long after the music fades. Booze & Ch …
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Hardy Griffin & Stephanie Johnson: Novel Slices Issue 7
Novel Slices Issue 7 includes prize-winning novel excerpts by Lauren Goodsmith (The Path of the Sun), Faith Shearin (Great Dismal Swamp), Olivia Strauss (Nat & Z), Sean Gill (The Hoard: A Novel of Di …
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S. L. Johnson & Margaret Lê: Deck of Tales
Featuring stories by Kayla Al-Shamma-Jones, Laurel Busby, A. S. Klatt-Diego, S. L. Johnson, Margaret Lê, M. C. S. Levine, and J. J. Mongk. An accidental goddess comes of age. Failure stimulates an un …
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