Incidental Dreams from a Myoclonic Jerk
Incidental Dreams from a Myoclonic Jerk is Joe Bugden's first published collection of short stories.
The collection of thirteen short stories is inhabited by characters drawn from unexceptional circumstances, whose lives are touched by love and loss, by regret and remorse, and who are placed in small and domestic settings as an examination of the everyday, and as a metaphor for the universal and ubiquitous conditions of life.
About the author
JOE BUGDEN holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney, (with a double major in Literature and Music), a Master of Letters degree (in American Literature), from the University of New England, a Post-graduate Diploma in Arts Management from the University of Technology, Sydney, and an Advanced Diploma in Accounting, from the Tasmanian Polytechnic.
Joe has had some of his short fiction published in various literary journals, and he also composes music. In 2002, The Listening Post (for solo viola) was commissioned by the Hobart City Council and has been included in a soundscape as part of the City of Hobart Memorial to recipients of the Victoria Cross. Joe’s first String Quartet was premiered by the Rubio Quartet (from Belgium) at the 2004 Canberra International Chamber Music Festival. In July 2016 Joe’s chamber opera, ‘Death by Defenestration’ was presented as part of that year’s Festival of Voices, and his other chamber opera, ‘The Call of Aurora’, based on the story of the Antarctic explorer, Douglas Mawson, was presented in the Peacock Theatre in Hobart as part of the 2022 Australian Antarctic Festival.
Joe’s first collection of short stories, ‘Incidental Dreams from a Myoclonic Jerk’ was published in 2024 by Ginninderra Press.
In July 2024 Joe was artist in residence through the La Baldi Foundation, in Montegiovi, Tuscany, working on the libretto for an opera based on the life of the Italian renaissance mathematician, Luca Pacioli.