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Sniggerless Boundulations

A short-story collection 
from indie Australian author 
Morgan Bell

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"A highly talented author" (Thomas Mobius) 

"So intangible" (Ann Smith)

"A deeply imaginative mind" (Tom Slick)

morgan bell article on wikipedia
Bell’s voice retains her witty absurdism, but it is complemented by a greater confidence that allows more depth of situation and character. ...  What makes a book that includes both ‘Sharpening The Knives’ and ‘The Lost Art of Transportation’ coherent is a shared ethos, a suspicion against the placating comforts of the mundane as and essential dishonesty of the everyday. This is what makes Laissez Faire so unsettling and so worthwhile reading. It’s a series of concentrated and focussed interrogations of the weirdness behind the expected.

Rowan Tree Editing UK

Morgan Bell is a young Australian woman, born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1981. She attended primary school in the regional areas of New South Wales, including the Northern Rivers, and the South Coast, and attended secondary school in the southern suburbs of Newcastle. She currently lives in Sydney and works in Local Government as an engineer. Morgan is university educated in civil engineering, traffic engineering, technical communications, linguistics, and literature. She is a member of Hunter Writers Centre, Newcastle Writers Group, and Newcastle Speculative Fiction Group. Her short story "It Had To Be Done" was first published in the Newcastle Writers Group Anthology 2012, and her short story "Midnight Daisy" was published by YWCA Newcastle in 2013 as part of the She: True Stories project, being awarded a Story Commendation at the exhibit launch, and with live readings on ABC 1233 in February 2014 and Newcastle Writers Festival in April 2014.  In March 2014 Morgan's short story "Don't Pay The Ferryman", an anti-travel piece, was shortlisted for the Hunter Writer's Centre Travel Writing Prize 2014.


Sniggerless Boundulations

Debut single-author collection (2014)

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Laissez Faire


Follow-up single-author collection (2017)

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Sproutlings: A Compendium of Little Fictions

An anthology of fantasy flash fiction (2016)

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Salty Popcorn

Morgan is an occassional film critic and book reviewer for the Salty Popcorn website, the brainchild of Jason King. Morgan and Jason have been blogging buddies from way back and are both opinionated movie buffs.

Movie Reviews

I Am Divine (2013)

Black Sea (2015)

The Longest Ride (2015)

The Age of Adaline (2015)

The Gunman (2015)

Far From The Madding Crowd (2015)

Love & Mercy (2015)

The Foxy Merkins (2015)

Finders Keepers (2015)

99 Homes (2015) + Ramin Bahrani interview

What Lola Wants (2015)

Nina Forever (2015)

Daddy's Home (2016)

Spotlight (2016)

The Girl King (2016)

Library Wars: The Last Mission (Japan)



Book Reviews

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Holy Cow by David Duchovny

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Good House by Ann Leary

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower

The Astrologer's Daughter by Rebecca Lim

The Novel Habits of Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe by Alexander McCall Smith

The Pleasure of Reading edited by Antonia Fraser

Hush, Little Bird by Nicole Trope

Circling The Sun by Paula McLain

Nein. A Manifesto by Eric Jarosinski

Gun Baby Gun by Iain Overton

More Letters of Note by Shaun Usher

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

I Call Myself A Feminist (essay collection)

Mindfulness For Creativity by Dr Danny Penman

Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter

Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay

Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler

On Writing by Charles Bukowski

Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix


The Interviews

On the blog tour for Sniggerless Boundulations, Morgan Bell has been interviewed or guest-posted on the following sites:

Author Spotlight on Missy Writes

Author Interview on Peace, Love & Writing

Author Interview on Roberta's Dreamworld

Author Spotlight on World of Writing

Author Interview on Bunny's Book Reviews

Book Interview on Lovely Reads

Author Interview on Book Club Reading

Author Interview on Jeanz Book Reviews

Author Interview on Kathryn Elizabeth Jones

My Author Friends Interview on Author Alliance 

Interview on Jennifer Douglas Literary Publicist

Interview on Susan M Leitz

Interview on Alice J Black

Australian Author Spotlight on Lauren Dawes

Port Stephens Examiner

Smashwords Interview

Interview on Fantasy & Sci-Fi Network

Author Interview on Read Freely

Interview on Samantha Marie

News Of The Area


Guest Post on Laura Brown (Topic: Mental Illness)

Guest Post on Creative Conversations (Topic: My Desk)

Author Interview on The Pen & Muse

Author Interview on Writers on Wednesday

Author Interview on IndieView

Author Interview on What The Experts Say (Simply Tips)

Author Interview on Indie Author Land

Author Snapshot on Rowena Holloway

Interview on Authors Interviews

Fan Questions on Indie Author Appreciation Week

Snapshots from Sydney on Words With JAM

Guest Post on Featured Author (Topic: Write What You Know)

Guest Post on Hunter Writers Centre blog (Topic: Comma Splice)

Guest Post on Peter Sutton (Topic: Kickstarting An Anthology)

Guest Post on Sheree Christoffersen (Topic: Getting Back Into Reading

Author of the Month on CJ Rose

Guest Post on KA Denver (Topic: The Power of Independence)

Guest Post on Jeannie Wycherley (Topic: Women In Horror Month)


Newcastle Writers Festival 2016

Sproutlings

Back Blurb
VENGEFUL VEGETATION
Morgan Bell’s Sproutlings is a mesmerising collection of exquisite peculiarities. Welsh and Cornish mythology. Australian campfire tales. Astral and fantastic. The pertinency of forty-three modern authors is punctuated by bites of botanical fiction from Poe, Lawson, Orwell, Lawrence, Wells, Alcott, and Wilde in this tour de force of tiny stories.

Sproutlings: A Compendium Of Little Fictions is a community publishing project from Hunter Anthologies in Newcastle NSW Australia, edited by Morgan Bell, on the theme of wicked plants.  There will be 40 contributing authors in this anthology. Authors were asked to be wild, be wonderful, and write things that have never been written before. New words, new phrases, new twists on old ideas. Inspiration included Jack & The Beanstalk, The Day of the Triffids, Little Shop of Horrors, Alice in Wonderland.
For a $20 advance paperback pre-order via the [ Kickstarter ] - NOW CLOSED
and help out by joining [ Thunderclap 1 ] [ Thunderclap 2 ] - NOW CLOSED

UPDATE 1!
The Kickstarter was successful!
It ended 25 October 2015. However, there is still time to pre-order: [ SPROUTLINGS pre-order web-store ]
UPDATE 2!
Sproutlings ebook was launched Thursday 1 April 2016, it is $0.99 for a limited time: [ SPROUTLINGS on Smashwords ]

Final cover art by Tallulah Cunningham [ Facebook | Patreon ]

Book trailer by Moosey Productions [ Facebook | Website ]

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - NOW CLOSED
(closed 11:59pm Sunday 31 May 2015)
Flash fiction 150 words to 2,000 words on the theme of "Wicked plants"
A Hunter Anthologies project, edited by Morgan Bell
Formatting style guidelines | More info | Official Hunter Anthologies page

Trouble By The Jarful

Morgan has contributed to a Prints Charming childrens story anthology with a middle-school piece called "Trouble By The Jarful", a modern fable about magical jars and the ingredients for generousity.

Cover reveals

Morgan's next collection of short stories is due out in early 2015, it is called Laissez Faire. The third instalment in the flash fiction series will be Tardigradous.

Novascapes Volume 2 (2015)

NOVASCAPES VOLUME 2  

SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED

Submission Period: 1 October 2014 – 31 January 2015



Morgan will be a contributor on this project. Her speculative fiction story "A Deer In The Shunting Yard" has been selected for inclusion in Novascapes Volume 2.

Upcoming novel - Daughters of Mallory

DAUGHTERS OF MALLORY

Morgan is working (slowly) on a speculative fiction novel: Daughters of Mallory. It is a feminist dystopia with an episodic structure and a third-person narrator, and includes literary charactens from Dickens and Austen and a few fairy tales.

Daughters of Mallory on NaNoWriMo

Novascapes Volume 1 (2014)

Morgan contributed a short story to Novascapes, the 2014 Hunter Speculative Fiction Anthology, called “The Switch” which is based on Germanic folklore. It was published 30 September 2014 alongside award-winning authors such as Margo Lanagan and Kirstyn McDermott. 

UPDATE: Novascapes now listed on Goodreads (ISBN13 9780992554804  Invisible Elephant Press)
UPDATE: Novascapes available for purchase | ebook | paperback

Newcastle Writers Festival 2015

BLOG POST: Novascapes session at Newcastle Writers Festival 2015


SUNDAY 22 MARCH

Novascapes

  • Sunday, March 22, 2015
  • 10:00am 11:00am
  • Mulubinba Room
  • Newcastle City Hall 
  • 290 King St Newcastle, NSW, 2300 Australia


Novascapes: Readings by local writers who feature in the Hunter Region’s inaugural speculative fiction anthology.

Hosted by the editor, Cassandra Page.


Free session

Newcastle Writers Festival 2014

Morgan spoke at the She:True Stories session, reciting her story Midnight Daisy. She also manned the Hunter Writers Centre info booth in the Maclean's Festival Bookshop (where Sniggerless Boundulations sold out), and was a volunteer at the signing tables and an escort for fantasy fiction author and icon Kate Forsyth, who left the festival with a copy of Sniggerless Boundulations.

She: True Stories Exhibition Launch

The exhibition for She: True Stories, ordinary and extraordinary, a YWCA Hunter Region Newcastle community portrait project, opened February 14 at the Lovett Gallery. The exhibition was open until  until March 22, 2014. Morgan Bell was awarded a prize for her story Midnight Daisy, which was marked as a commended entry in the exhibit.

International Womens Day Art Exhibit

Held at the See Street Gallery at Meadowbank, the exhibition ran from Thursday 6 March to Saturday 22 March 2014. Morgan Bell's art work was entitled "Chastain", a digital print.

Tighes Hill Community Gardens Poetry Prize 2013

Morgan Bell was guest judge for the 2013 Poetry Prize for students of Tighes Hill Public School, sponsored and organised by Tighes Hill Community Gardens. The theme was the community garden, which all the children participate in maintaining. Poems ranged from acrostic to rhyming couplets to haikus. For each year group Morgan selected a shortlist of five poems, which she announced on the day, with the top three of each class receiving a prize of lollies and garden seed packets. The children read their poem live on the day, a warm sunny Saturday, 14 September 2013.

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Bell’s prose is clean, minimalist and carefully executed , though she manages to avoid becoming detached or overly abstract

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