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Kavita Bedford

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About

Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer with a background in journalism, anthropology and literature. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and she was a recent Churchill Fellow exploring migrant narratives. Her first novel, Friends & Dark Shapes, was published in 2021 and was Shortlisted for The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards, 2021 and NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing.

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The Next Big Thing

Small Press Network Book of the Year Award 2022

Esther Anatolitis, Kavita Bedford, Anwen Crawford, Eleanor Jackson, Patrick Lenton, Bella Li, SJ Norman, Poppy Nwosu

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