The Female Factory got an honourable mention for the Norma K. Hemming Award on the weekend (the actual award being taken out by Paddy O’Reilly’s very excellent novel The Wonders)! From the Judges’ Report:
For the 2015 competition, the Judges also saw fit to award an Honourable Mention to the runner up, a collection of stories by Lisa L Hannett and Angela Slatter titled The Female Factory, published by Twelfth Planet Press in November 2014.
The Judges, writer and editor, Russell Blackford; editor, Sarah Endacott; writer, editor and publisher, Rob Gerrand; and writer, Tess Williams, commenting on the runner up, said:
“Lisa Hannett and Angela Slatter’s The Female Factory explores the different stages of human female life: from conception, to childhood, to old age. Reproduction is a fraught thing, with burgeoning wombs and bargaining for ‘surrendered’ babies. Motherhood is just as tortured, and the stories canvass desire, antipathy and resentment. With rich prose and tantalising scenes, the collection is a clever meeting of genres.”