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.JENN PHIZACKLEA.
Jenn Phizacklea is an author who lives in rural Western Australia.
She writes novels and short stories in the genres of contemporary Australian fiction, literary fiction, and historical fiction which are centred around an exploration of the human condition. She is also a published poet.
She has an Arts Degree from Edith Cowan University, majoring in Creative Writing and English.
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This collection of contemporary short stories is concerned with how women are shaped by the events and relationships in their lives, and how those elements serve as catalysts for personal transformation - the process of becoming something else.
They address the pressure of gender expectations coming from within and without, and particularly how that plays out in relationships, both familial and romantic, or when experiencing serious hardships such as mental health crises, addiction and domestic violence.
They are set in Western Australia during the 2000s and 2010s.
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Double White Lines: A Novel
Can we ever truly know other people?
Does love reveal or obscure us from each other?
Is love really all we need?
In Western Australia in the early 2010s, five women grapple with love - platonic, romantic, familial and fraternal - as they seek their own answers to these questions.
Gracie and her twin sister, Lou, have very different approaches to what they want from their lives and how to exist while not fitting into societal expectations about what love and life looks like;
Bianca, who enters into romantic relationships with blind faith, never thinking too far ahead, follows a pattern that she never interrogates;
Beautiful, confident and spiteful Flick, who lives fast and flirts with danger, thinks she knows exactly what to do when danger flirts back;
and Arity, whose return to her hometown after many years away forces her to face up the legacy of her family's failures, steps into a new future with a determination to do everything differently.
Note: This novel expands on selected themes and characters which were first sketched in Double White Lines: Two Novellas.
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Release Date 30 Sep 2025
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The Hand of Fortuna
The year is 6 CE.
The family Plautii have reached the pinnacle of the Roman social hierarchy and politics, led by the charismatic Aulus Plautius and his cousin Silvanus; but that position will be threatened from unlooked-for sources, both inside and outside the family.
Silvanus has left his wife and children in Rome to take his place as Governor of Pamphylia and Galatia in the east, but behind him, chaos descends as his wife spirals out of control and his son behaves in unexpected, scandalous ways.
Meanwhile, the elder Aulus takes on an investigation into a shadowy figure named Facilus, unaware that the trail will lead him into a case that threatens both his hedonistic cousin, Rufus, and the family name, with disaster.
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What Songs Were Left
The Sequel to the Hand of Fortuna.
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Once, I was Dreaming:
A Collection of poems
Jenn Phizacklea is an Australian poet who has been writing introspective, imagist poetry for many years, published in various journals, webpages and zines; but this is the first time she has gathered her work together in one collection for publication.
The primary focus of her work is the connection between landscape and emotion, with the environment often standing in for the interior life. It explores themes such as childhood, grief, love, loss, and the experience of living in the Australian landscape. The work is closely tied to its place of origin.
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Hollow Lakedaimon
A historical fiction set in 5th Century BCE Sparta.
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Bessie
Set in the early twentieth century in the goldfields of Western Australia, Bessie is a short story about a young woman struggling to find a path for herself.
She is caught between her father's strict religion, and the bent of her own heart.
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STORIES FROM WIACUBBIN
Stories from Wiacubbin is a series of interconnected short stories set in the early years of European settlement in Western Australia, between 1905 - 1940.
At the centre of the stories is the Young family: Frank, who appears stern and unforgiving, but what really drives him? His wife, Eleanor, who suffers from a mental illness that no one knows how to handle; and their daughter Rebekah, who has never seen anywhere but Wiacubbin, yet reads and dreams of other places, and of finding someone who sees behind her enforced silence.
These were times of drought, war and economic depression. The stories revolve around the search for happiness, the strength and weakness of the human spirit, the sorrow and joy in the face of struggle, and at the core of everything, the redemptive power of love.
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