Devil's Trumpet

Author(s): Tracey Slaughter

Short Stories

When the stars were rhinestones. When your car was a blue Holden god. When kisses spread to your back teeth, marathons of sucking. When we pashed through jokes, through tunes, through homework, through the leftovers we shovelled out our schoolbags. When you let me tattoo you with talk. Thirty-one exhilarating new stories from the acclaimed author of Deleted Scenes for Lovers: 'If Slaughter is writing from the black block in her chest, she is also speaking directly into yours.'-Charlotte Graham-McLay, New Zealand Books


Product Information

Tracey Slaughter is the author of the highly acclaimed short story collection Deleted Scenes for Lovers (VUP, 2016). Her first collection of poems and short stories, Her Body Rises, was published by Random House (2005), and her novella The Longest Drink in Town by Pania Press (2015). Her short fiction has received numerous awards, including the international Bridport Prize 2014, a 2007 NZ Book Month Award, and BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards in 2004 and 2001. She won the 2015 Landfall Essay Competition, and was the recipient of the 2010 Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary. She teaches Creative Writing at Waikato University, and edits the journal Mayhem.

General Fields

  • : 9781776564170
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : April 2021
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tracey Slaughter
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.3
  • : 252