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Various authors, Dame Quentin Bryce (foreword)
Prize-winning and highly commended stories from the 2024 Hope Prize, with judges including Dame Quentin Bryce, Dr Tony Birch and Julia Gillard.
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Suzy Garcia (ed.), Kill Your Darlings
New Australian Fiction showcases the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best. Now in its sixth year, these stories will move, entertain and enlighten you.
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John Kinsella
Shifts in tone, setting and narration create a sense of the uncanny in Beam of Light, Kinsella's haunting collection of stories.
RMIT Professional Writing and Editing (PWE) Students
What happens when change is inevitable? You fear. You deny. You revolt. You choose. You evolve. You accept. You embrace.
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Suzy Garcia (ed.)
A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings.
Andrew Roff
This daring, irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human, through a world very like our own.
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Josephine Rowe
A masterful collection of horizons and departures, heartbreak and seduction, from an internationally acclaimed Australian author.
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Joey Bui
A debut collection of stories announcing an intelligent, vibrant and highly original Australian-Vietnamese voice in contemporary literature.
Dominic Carew
In nineteen short stories, No Neat Endings pits its characters against the challenges of modern life, sex, love, work and the world. Half tragedy, half comedy, this collection announces a…
Wayne Marshall,Wayne Marshall
A lonely yowie emerges from the bush to attend the Desperate and Dateless Ball. Mysterious creatures descend from the sky to place a ban on footy. A shark named Bruce…
Sean O'Beirne
This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of old and new…
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Peter Carey
The best of Carey’s short fiction features here, drawn from work published previously in his two anthologies The Fat Man in History and War Crimes .
Tony Birch
Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rendered time capsule…
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Tim Winton
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.
Nam Le
The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting…
Cate Kennedy
In these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail. Her stories are populated by people at tipping points in their lives – moments that find…
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Moreno Giovannoni
Tuscany as you have never seen it before …
Joshua Lobb
The Flight of Birds is a novel in twelve stories, each of them compelled by an encounter between the human and animal worlds. The birds in these stories inhabit the…
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Alice Bishop
A young and exciting new literary voice, emerging from one of Australia’s worst natural disasters
Maxine Beneba Clarke
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated.
Melanie Cheng
Awarded the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, Melanie Cheng’s Australia Day paints a vivid and absorbing panorama of contemporary Australia
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Fiona McFarlane
These wide-ranging stories resonate in the way of only the finest writing and the most pleasurable reading. There are storylines that seem straightforward on the surface but have a dozen…
Ellen Van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven takes her readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical and still achingly real.
Abigail Ulman
This exceptional collection of stories is about young women of different ages, from their early teens to their late twenties, coming to terms with what it means to desire, and…
Margo Lanagan
An outstanding collection of thirteen short stories from the internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning author of Sea Hearts and Tender Morsels.
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Julie Koh
In Portable Curiosities, Julie Koh re-imagines our world with a dark, satirical twist. These twelve stories combine absurd humour with searing critiques on contemporary society - the rampant consumerism, the…
Ceridwen Dovey
Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers.
Jennifer Down
Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia’s newest and most promising literary talents.
