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Game [novel] (2013)

Shearston first conceived of Game as a screenplay in the mid-1990s. He notes that “it failed to find production money. The first prose version was a novel for young adults. In subsequent drafts it became a novel for adults”. The novel, published by Allen & Unwin, tells the story of the last days in the life of bushranger Ben Hall. Hall wants to quit the game of bushranging and to get to know his son, Harry, who lives with his wife Biddy and Jack Turner, the man she left him for. The novel was longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award, shortlisted for the 2014 Christina Stead Award for Fiction 2013, shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Awards 2014 and shortlisted for the 2013 Colin Roderick Award.

New Guinea letters of John Green [radio documentary] (1984)

Featured over two broadcasts on ABC Radio 2 in 1984 was the radio documentary written by Trevor Shearston based on the letters from New Guinea of John Green to his family in Healesville in Victoria. Working titles included: The John Green Letters; Edge of the Empire : the New Guinea letters of John Green; and The John Green letters. John Green, fifth son of John and Mary Green, went to British New Guinea in 1892. In 1897 he was speared and then clubbed to death by Binandere people. During this four years in New Guinea John Green wrote more than 3200 pages of correspondence.

This series contains drafts, agreements and correspondence with ABC regarding scripts and production, and research material for the radio documentary feature.

Dead birds [novel] (2007)

This series contains drafts, notes, research material, and correspondence. Dead birds, published by ABC Books in 2007, is set in the early days of exploration around Papua New Guinea. It is based on the 1877 journal of Italian naturalist, collector and explorer Luigi d'Albertis and his crew as they travel by boat up the Fly River in the steam launch 'Neva' collecting birds of paradise, ethnographic artifacts and undiscovered specimens. A New Guinean tribesman is killed by Albertis' crew and his head preserved in a specimen bottle. The story, narrated by the head in a jar, is a story of race relations. Included in this series are notes, research material, and drafts.

Concertinas [novel] (1988)

This series contains drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings, research material, and correspondence. Concertinas is told from the alternating points of view of the two main characters, Chris Davage and Ian McCall. Both ex-PNG men have fond and lingering memoirs of the excitement of the expatriate experience. The novel examines the relationship between Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. This series contains drafts, notes, research material, and newspaper cuttings.

Snowdrop [screenplay] - filmed as Envy [motion picture] (1999)

This series contains drafts and notes. The screenplay for Snowdrop, with the working title of 'Little black dress', was not commissioned. Sheartson wrote it and it was taken up by Julie Money and Michael Cook. After disagreements between Shearston and Adelphi Films, the screenplay rights were bought by Julie Money and Michael Cook with Jeff Truman as the final writer of what became the film Envy. This film is also know as The new girlfriend. This series includes drafts of the various working titles, correspondence, and reviews.

Ben Hall realia

6 pieces of shards of crockery and glassware found by Shearston at the site of Halls house at Sandy Creek, near Grenfell. The house was burned down by the NSW Police in 1862. Shearston believes these shards are of plates that Hall ate from and bottles he drank from. Found during one of Shearstons scouting trips for the possible film production of the screenplay 'Game' in 1995 or 1997.

Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship

Diary, correspondence, cards, Fellowship reports, ephemera, drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings relating to Rosanne Fitzgibbons receiving the first Beatrice Davis Award in 1992 and her time in New York with Norton Publishing in 1992-92. The Fellowship is named after the distinguished literary editor Beatrice Davis and provides an opportunity for a senior editor to develop knowledge and expertise in the editorial department of an international publishing house/s.

Personal papers

Personal correspondence, notebooks, curriculum vitae and references. Includes a list of titles and photocopies of inscriptions on the copies of books belong to Fitzgibbon that were returned to the family.

Lectures, seminars, workshops on editing

Throughout her career Rosanne Fitzgibbon attended and presented lectures, seminars and workshops on editing and publishing. She presented for the Queensland Writers' Centre, Australian Book Publishers Association, various Writers Festivals, Institute of Professional Editors, Literature Board of the Australian Council and guest presentations for courses at University of Queensland.

Freelance editing

Correspondence with authors and publishing houses regarding editing manuscripts. Contains copies (some partial) of manuscripts (some with annotations) for Gerald Windsor ('All day long the noise of battle'), Hugh Mackay ('What makes us tick?'), Marion Halligan ('Shooting the fox' and 'Murder on the apricot coast'), Brisbane City Council (Brisbane : 150 stories, 1858-2009), and Brian Castro ('Shanghai dancing').

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