Zenda Vecchio

Tiger! Tiger!
Ginninderra Press - 2008

We all either hunters or hunted by one another. Obsessed fromchildhood with William Blake's poem 'The Tiger', Zenda Vecchio has used it in this collection of short stories to explore the relationship between predator and prey in the lives of her characters

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Children at the Gate
Ginninderra Press - 2005

Childhood is another country; they do things differently there. Zenda Vecchio's double gift is to be able to remember that strange land (which adults generally forget or uncounsciously falsify) and to represent it in elegant, economical prose. These - often dark stories are compelling reminders of a world we all once lived in.

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Listen for the Nightingale |
Greater Glider Productions - 2002

While the serpent whispers an end to despair, the nightingale sing of courage and strength. Kathleen's confsion about her family leads her to thoughts of suicide. Her inner resilience takes over and the poetic nightingale becomes a symbols of hope.

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A Conversation with Emily and other stories
Ginninderra Press - 2001

Literary creation and motherhood are often likened to each other. In this collection, Zenda Vecchio shows that the similarity need not be a playful way of speaking so much as a bizarre reality. A Conversation with Emily introduces a fictional character who is told she need not be put in a story - and that makes the story she is in. The other four stories deal with invented 'characters' who in turn invent 'characters'. who is creating this world of mirages?

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Mavis
Ginninderra Press - 2000

A change-of-life baby or a changeling?A magic morror or a paranoid delusion?
Dreams or realities?

Mavis projects the forest-dark world of ancient folklore into modern mddle-class domesticity.

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