name: Nigel Featherstone
genres: Fiction
avg_rating: 3.86
ratings_count: 556
about: Nigel Featherstone is an Australian novelist, playwright, librettist, freelancer, and music maker. His most recent work is The Wreck Event, a 16-song spokenword-and-music album under the moniker Hell Herons in collaboration with award-winning poets Melinda Smith, Stuart Barnes, and CJ Bowerbird. Nigel’s most recent novel, My Heart is a Little Wild Thing, was published by Ultimo Press (Hardie Grant) in 2022. It has been described as ‘Epic in its intimacy–a triumph of a book’ (Peter Polites), ‘A remarkable look at Australian masculinity and its meaning’ (Newtown Review of Books), and ‘Yearning and intimate’ (West Australian). Nigel’s war novel, Bodies of Men, was published by Hachette Australia in 2019. It was longlisted for the 2020 ARA Hist Nigel Featherstone is an Australian novelist, playwright, librettist, freelancer, and music maker. His most recent work is The Wreck Event, a 16-song spokenword-and-music album under the moniker Hell Herons in collaboration with award-winning poets Melinda Smith, Stuart Barnes, and CJ Bowerbird. Nigel’s most recent novel, My Heart is a Little Wild Thing, was published by Ultimo Press (Hardie Grant) in 2022. It has been described as ‘Epic in its intimacy–a triumph of a book’ (Peter Polites), ‘A remarkable look at Australian masculinity and its meaning’ (Newtown Review of Books), and ‘Yearning and intimate’ (West Australian). Nigel’s war novel, Bodies of Men, was published by Hachette Australia in 2019. It was longlisted for the 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize, shortlisted for the 2020 ACT Book of the Year, shortlisted in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards, and received a 2019 Canberra Critics Circle Award. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals such as the Review of Australian Fiction, Meanjin, Overland, and Island. Nigel also writes for the stage: as commissioned by the Hume Conservatorium, he wrote the libretto for The Weight of Light (music by James Humberstone), which was developed by The Street Theatre and had its world premiere in 2018. His play with spokenword songs, The Story of the Oars, is in the final stage of development, also by The Street Theatre. As a freelancer, Nigel’s work has appeared in a variety of mastheads, including the Sydney Morning Herald, Guardian Australia, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. He has been supported by artsACT, Create NSW, and Creative Australia. In 2022, Nigel was named the ACT Artist of the Year. He is represented by The Naher Agency, Sydney. ...more