"No Fat Chicks"
| Title | "No Fat Chicks" |
| Year for Search | 2016 |
| Authors | Sparks, Cat[riona](b. 1965) |
| Secondary Authors | Wessely, Tehani |
| Date Published | 2016 |
| Publisher | FableCroft Publishing |
| Place Published | Mawson, ACT, Australia |
| ISBN Number | 9780994469014 978-1-912950676 |
| Keywords | Australian author, Female author |
| Annotation | The story is set in a future in which genetic mutations mean that all women are obese except for a few who take extreme measures to stay thin as seen from the viewpoint of a man whose ex-girlfriend has become fat. It won the Short story Ditmar Award in 2016. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 179-92, with a brief author’s note on 192 |
| Info Notes | The author says that it was harshly rejected by everyone except the editor who accepted it and built a volume of “challenging or controversial material” around it. It won the Short Story Ditmar Award in 2016. Australian female author. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Australian female author (b. 1965) |
| Full Text | 2016 Sparks, Cat[riona] (b. 1965). “No Fat Chicks.” In Your Face. Ed. Tehani Wessely (Mawson, ACT, Australia: FableCroft Publishing, 2016). Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 179-92, with a brief author’s note on 192, which says that it was harshly rejected by everyone except the editor who accepted it and built a volume of “challenging or controversial material” around it. PSt The story is set in a future in which genetic mutations mean that all women are obese except for a few who take extreme measures to stay thin as seen from the viewpoint of a man whose ex-girlfriend has become fat. It won the Short Story Ditmar Award in 2016. Australian female author. |
