Fiction and non-fiction published in Australia and internationally in print media, radio, websites and CDs, including:

SHORT FICTION

Fear Factor, Terror Incognito
an anthology of stories by authors from Australia and the Indian subcontinent. Authors include: David Malouf, Rosie Scott, Thomas Keneally, Susanne Gervay, Jeremy Fisher, Denise Leith, Andrew Y M Kwong, Devika Brendon, Guy Scotton, Salman Rushdie, Kiran Nagarkar, Neelum Saran Gour, Gulzar, Jaspreet Singh, Sujata Sankranti, Tabish Khair, Meenakshi Bharat, Temsula Ao, Janhavi Acharekar and Meera Kant; with foreword by Yasmine Gooneratne.
Co-edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle,
published by Pan Macmillan Picador India in October 2009 and Pan Macmillan Picador Australia, March 2010.
this link
Commonwealth Broadcasting Association CD
Room Six
Recorded at the BBC in London by actor Darlene Johnson for
broadcast on radio stations around the Commonwealth 1998-2008

ENCOUNTERS: Modern Australian short stories
Cherryulla
Edited by Barry Oakley, this anthology has stories by Tim Winton, David Malouf, Peter Goldsworthy, Sandy McCutcheon, Sophie Cunningham, and many other Australian authors
Published The Five Mile Press, November 2006

Beyond The Grave
The Price Tag and The Crown
Reviewed in The Sydney Morning Herald, March 25-26, 2006 Spectrum, IN SHORT FICTION
Comments from Peter Bishop on my short story The Price Tag which is included in this anthology:

I've known the work of Sharon Rundle for some years. Let me invent a category for writing such as Sharon's: quiet hauntings. You read the story, and hours later and then hours after that you realise it's still there in your mind:

'Since my father retired he has been roped into helping with his wife's good works. Laying up treasures in heaven, as she calls it. After dinner she's a whirlwind in the kitchen, making cakes and tarts and biscuits for the old people. The rich smell of pastry and cooked fruit sends sweet messages to my stomach and I burn my tongue on a jam tart.
"Don't feel you have to wash up, dear," she says. "Just because I've been up to my elbows on my feet all day."'

Quiet but deadly.
Peter Bishop, Director of Varuna The Writers' House.

More SHORT FICTION was published in:
Penwomanship [USA] [2005]
Samyukta [India] [2005]
trAce 'Decade' Quilt [UK] [2005]
Clean, The London Women's Library [UK] [2005]
MH Special Edition (UK) [2003]
MH 14 (UK) [2003]
Illness Journal (USA) [2003]
Pulling up the Blind [2002]
Trust Me, I’m a Storyteller [1999]
The Pencil Orchids Fourth Anthology [1999]
Commonwealth Broadcaster [1998]
Fantasia [1997]
Out of the Mist [1997]
LiNQ Volume 23 No. 2 [1996]
Pencil Orchids Second Anthology [1995]
Pencil Orchids Anthology [1994]
Plenty Valley FM Radio [1994]
LiNQ Volume 19 No. 1 [1992]
Sydney Morning Herald [1992, 1990]

ARTICLES
[2004-1984]
Caring for the Coast; Every Other Week; Sydney Morning Herald; The Sun-Herald; The Central Coast Express Advocate; The Central Coast Sun Weekly; The Mountain Districts Community News; The Valley Voice; LINC; Ozlite-zine editorial; ISIS HSC CD; NewsWrite; The Writers’ Voice.

ESSAYS
Desert In Bloom ~ Contemporary Indian Women's Fiction in English  [hardcover, Pencraft International, India. 2004]
Strutting Our Stuff
"A corroborative critical role is performed by the dynamic perceptions of Australian Sharon Rundle, the 1998 Commonwealth short story regional award winner, who analyses what it means to be a woman writer; the responsibilities and the problems that come with it ... In this context, she praises Sujata Sankranti and her The Warp and the Weft and Other Stories for 'her valuable contribution to international literature with her sensitive storytelling.'"
Meenakshi Bharat, from the Introduction to Desert in Bloom
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Desert in Bloom  reviewed in The Hindu

Desert in Bloom  sales point

Samyukta Journal
published by Women's Initiatives, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

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LITERARY & ACADEMIC PRIZES & AWARDS

Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi Silver Medal
UTS Faculty of Education, Sydney Mechanics School of Arts Award and Medallion
Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize
Short list Glen Eira Award
Denis Butler Memorial Short Story Award
Shire of Eltham Short Story Award
Kellaluca Publishing Prize for fractured fairytale
Viewpoint Manuscript Award
The Sydney Morning Herald "Circular Letter"

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