• ip picks 2020 award

    shifting colours – ip picks 2020 award

    Best Fiction | Commended • | Fiona Sussman: Shifting Colours
    “Shifting Colours is a powerful story of family ties, secrets and love. This intriguing novel is foremost about the relationship between Celia and her daughter Miriam and all the struggles and turmoil that come between them. Separated by land and sea, Celia and Miriam’s story begins in South Africa’s violent landscape and then continues in calm, quiet England. As you turn the pages, you are magnetised by the surprises, great details and the captivating writing that takes you into the heart and mind of the characters.”
    IP eNews 45, Vol 12, No 1
    4 January 2012

  • the gift

    the gift

    the gift

    First Place Graeme Lay Short Story Competition 2012
    “This story manages in less than 1500 words to present the complexities of the life and death of its deceased central character. Skillfully structured, many-layered, and with a deeply satisfying ending, The Gift is a worthy winner of this year’s competition. Fiona read her story to a packed auditorium and the enthusiastic applause that followed was vindication the delighted audience wholeheartedly agreed with Graeme Lay’s selection.”
    Beatties Book Blog – unofficial homepage of the New Zealand book community, Monday, December 10, 2012 : beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com
    3 January 2012