Bio Gwen Kelly (1922 - ), born Gwen Smith at Thornleigh, an outer Sydney Suburb, is a graduate of the University of Sydney who has combined a career in secondary and tertiary teaching with the writing of several novels. In 1981 she was presented by the Society of Women Writers with the first Hilarie Lindsay Award for achievement by a woman writer and won the award again in 1989.

Awards:
Commonwealth Literary Fellowship (Three year Guaranteed Income Grant), awarded 1973
Henry Lawson Prose Award (short story) for Day at Paffts, 1968.
Henry Lawson Prose Award (short Story) for Mrs Mac Stewart in Retrospect, 1976.
Victorian FAW $100 for The Gaseous World of Angus Davitt, 1976.
Melbourne Sun-Pictorial Award ($1,000) for Rondo for Catriona, 1980.
Henry Lawson Prose Award (short story) for The Dark of the World, 1980.
Henry Lawson Prose Award (short story) for Obituary for Frances by Frances, 1981.
Finalist for Peter Stuyvesan Award (novel), given by PEN International with Always Afternoon, 1981.
First Hilarie Lindsay Award, for achievement of a woman writer, given by Society for Women Writers (NSW Branch), 1981.
Third Prize in D Syme Short Story Australia Day Competition, Springfield, Victoria 1984 for The Cat.
Commended in Ian Mudie Short Story Competition, FAW South Australia for The Panther',
Commended in Eaglehawk, Dahlia and Arts Festival, 1984 for short story A Place for the Dead.
Hilarie Lindsay Award, for achievement of a woman writer, given by Society for Women Writers (NSW Branch), 1989.
Patron of Armidale Arts Council.
Life Member of CALLS (Centre for Australian Literature and Language Studies, UNE).

BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

Acting Smart for Australia

Novels:
There is No Refuge (Heinemann, London), 1961, 241pp.
The Red Boat (Alpha Books, Sydney), 1968, 131pp.
The Middle-Aged Maidens (Nelson, Australia), 1976, 224pp
Always Afternoon (Collins, Sydney / London), 1981, 263pp; paperback (Fontana/Collins), 1982 Made as mini-series, Always Afternoon by Henry Crawford, a German Australian venture being SBSs contribution to the bi-centenary, 1988, and in German presented in prime time by ARD and NDR Television.
Arrows of Rain (Angus & Robertson Australia) 1988, 323pp.

Books (Non-Fiction):
With Margaret Mackie:
What is Right? Case Studies of the Ethics of Education (Angus & Robertson Australia), 1970, 148pp Tapes and Work Booklets:
The Short Story and Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson and His Critics (S & M Supply Co, Sydney), 1975.

Short Stories (Collected):
The Happy People and Others (Selected Short Stories), ed. A J Bennett, Kardoorair Press, Armidale, 1988. V. 193pp.

Poems:
Collected: With A J Bennett
Fossils and Stray Cats, (Kardoorair Press, Armidale), 1980, 36pp.