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Author - Gary Dunne

Biography and Bibliography

Gary Dunne has been involved with the gay press in one way or another since settling in Sydney from Adelaide in 1975. He edited a number of collections of Australian g&l lit in the 80s and 90s including Edge City (1983) and Travelling on Love in a Time of Uncertainty (1991), Fruit (1995) and nine e-anthologies for gay-ebooks since he and Laurin McKinnon started this site in 2005.

Gary's own published fiction includes If Blood Should Stain the Lino (1983), As If Overnight (1989), Shadows on the Dance Floor (1991), The Queen & I (2006) and Trout Fishing in Melbourne (2009). His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies in Australia and overseas.

In 2011, Gary produced the cover of the GEB anthology When You're A Boy using Ken dolls as models. One thing led to another, and in Feb 2012, he held a successful exhibition of his dollpix photos at the Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst. This recent unhealthy interest in 12 inch action figures proves Gary doesn't get out nearly as much as he should.

Contact Gary via gay-ebooks

Gary has contributed to many gay-ebooks publications including:
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[novella] As If Overnight Feb 2006

Big Wigs Perverse Verse Feb 2006

[novella] The Queen and I May 2006

Laying out Luke Boy's Summer Collection Nov 2006

[extract] A Day in the Country 2006

[Behind the words] Making of 'A Day in...' 2006

The Prince Philip Blues Justified & Ancient Feb 2008

So Earnest They're Boring Justified & Ancient Feb 2008

Bush Xmas and, then, he kissed me March 2011

Photo collection Ken always does as he's told March 2012

Gary Dunne titles on this site:

The Queen and I

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As If Overnight

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Shadows on the Dancefloor (Chap)

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A Day in the Country

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Trout Fishing in Melbourne

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Downloadable is Gary Dunne's collection of Thailand stories The Queen and I (available only from here); finally As If Overnight is available again as a complete pdf rebuild. Also there's a sample chapter from Shadows on the dance floor and a Behind the Words feature on the writing of this chapter. Plus Gary's story that won equal second prize in the 2009 Sex Write-off Competition (Midsumma Melbourne).

Gary's work also appears in:

Boy's Summer collection

Perverse Verse

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And then he kissed me

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As If Overnight

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Audio recordings

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Laying out Luke is downloadable from the first gay-ebooks collection plus there are stories from Gary in Perverse Verse, Justified and Ancient and our audio recordings.

Paperback books (not available for download)

		Edge City on two different plans A collection of lesbian and gay writing from Australia Sydney Gay Writers Collective, September 1983 Editors Margaret Bradstock, Gary Dunne, Dave Sargent, Louise Wakeling 223 pages, 140 x 210mm, ISBN 0 949876 01 0 "Edge City is important not only for the work it contains but equally as the foundation for what is the long overdue emergence of a literary voice of lesbians and gay men in Australia." Denis Altman from the Foreword.
		Travelling on Love in a Time of Uncertainty Contemporary Australian Gay Fiction, BlackWattle Press, September 1991, editor Gary Dunne, 109 pages, 140 x 210mm ISBN 1 875243 06 2 Blurb: A gathering of the best recent Australian fiction written from gay male perspectives. A striking collection of Australian short stories that capture what it is to be gay and living in the 90's. Eighteen pieces, across broad scenarios, that cover a lot of territory - an all night dance party, a down market back room; a family funeral; a coming of age in outer suburbia; a Mardi Gras Veteran; a Whitlamesque drag queen; a deep sub-mariner; and an HIV survivor with attitude.
		Fruit A New Anthology of Contemporary Australian Gay Writing BlackWattle Press, November 1994, editor Gary Dunne, 147 pages, 140 x 210mm, ISBN 1 875243 15 1 Blurb: The pick of the crop. This unique collection of gay writing is by the best of Australia's gay authors; accessible and entertaining stories that illustrate the expanding diversity of our community. A failed intimacy with a touring porn stud. The plottings of a famous novelist. A TV chat show guest is exposed. Overnight lovers in a bush caravan park. A leathery buzzard nighclubs the Los Angeles curfew. A curious schoolboy grows up in Athens. And adventures from Stockholm, Tokyo, Wangaratta and the Gulf of Siam. Exciting new writing that is both upfront and confronting; twenty potent examples of today's Australian gay literature, each one a great read.
		If Blood Should Stain The Lino ISBN 094987602X, inVersions, 1983, 96pages, 140 x 210mm A collection of interconnected short stories. 'The humour is black, but optimistic. The style is tastefully minimal. A new writer to watch out for.'

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