I founded Splice in the years between those two events, and since then I have commissioned and published several novels, story collections, essay collections, and anthologies, as well as scores of longform essays on contemporary literature that poses a challenge to conventional style and structure.The Miles Franklin shortlist for 2021 was announced on Wednesday: six novels by Australian writers that are deemed by the judges to be of high literary merit in representing "Australian life in any of its phases".īesides being Australia's most prestigious literary prize, it's also one of the richest, with the winning author receiving $60,000. In 2014, I published my début novel, Blood and Bone, which won that year’s Viva La Novella Prize in my homeland of Australia, and my follow-up, At the Edge of the Solid World, was published in 2020. After I relocated to Switzerland in 2012, I sketched out a new direction for my online activities. My motivations for beginning Infinite Patience are outlined in my first post.
My thesis eventually metamorphosed into a monograph published in 2016. I also co-edited the academic journal Antithesisand I edited and published a collection of essays on the work of the American writer Edward P. Between 20, I worked on a PhD thesis which examined the jurisprudential legacy of the nineteenth century frontier in American literature and culture. I began this website as a blog in 2010, when I was a graduate student and tutor at the University of Melbourne.
I’m also an editor and publisher, taking the reins on a small press called Splice. These days I focus exclusively on writing fiction and literary criticism.
In a previous life, I taught literature and history at schools in Switzerland and England. My name is Daniel Davis Wood I’m a writer from Australia now based in Scotland.
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