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You clamber up, heading for the exit, the circle of faint light, as the radiance of the pre-dawn leads you on toward freedom. I follow. You spread your darling wings. You enter the net that awaits you.' Bold, tender, and often fantastical, Love Letter to Lola enters the very pain of loss and grief while preserving a wise, sly, humorous, and ironic point of view. The thylacine, the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the blue macaw are all candidates...

WINNER OF THE 2018 CARMEL BIRD DIGITAL LITERARY AWARD Beth Spencer's award-winning collection crosses boundaries of genre, time, history and desire, meditating on how we create ourselves through culture and stories, and why it matters. An Angel is suspended in protest beneath a forest-green canopy, a girl watches Bewitched and dreams of being part of a coven, a man struggles to wrest back control of his story, and the cast of Fatal Attracti...

Features American authors: Holly Iglesias & Peter Johnson and Australian authors: Julia Prendergast & Paul Venzo In this anthology of microliterature over forty writers explore the theme of travel, from the confusing variety of toilets found around the world to adrenaline-inducing bus trips, the surprise child of a holiday romance, and a businessman's life-threatening cycle to the office. There are adventures in Australia and abroad, journeys ...

Smacked is a moving collection of stories about addiction told with heart-stopping narrative control and emotional resonance. - Roanna Gonsalves, 2021 Carmel Digital Literary Award judge Runner-Up, 2021 Carmel Digital Literary Award Hecq writes playfully and with irony, thrumming prose and poetry in self-aware stories gravid with familiar yet unfamiliar protagonists and their dented victims or saviours. Smacked and other stories of addicti...

Cri Fi, Sci Fi, Noir, Rom Com, Lit Fic, Western, Horror, Gothic, Fantasy, Fairytale... In Spineless Wonders' latest anthology of microlit, writers were invited to play with genre. Here you will find some of the well-worn tropes from literature and film reshaped and manipulated - all in less than half a page. The results are sometimes political, sometimes philosophical, but always playful, witty and stunningly written.'This is a wonderfully evo...

This anthology of Australian microliterature explores the theme of scars-how they mark us, how they mark the world around us, and the intriguing stories that they tell. From healing the scarred remains of an abandoned mine, to a kidney making peace in its final moments, to a concussion that sparks a supernova, each little story has a little something for everyone. 'In this dynamic and absorbing collection, the subject of scars is approached fr...

From the assassination in Australia, one of a series of international terrorist attacks, the story traces back to the streets of 1920s Berlin and the Armenian genocide of World War I. Three companion essays provide historical context.'Weaves a mostly-forgotten strand of our history into a compelling contemporary crime story.' - Emily Maguire'A heartfelt and gripping story of family, hardship and resilience.' - Candice Fox

A collection of microfiction and short stories by Australian author and artist, Richard Holt.Richard Holt invites readers into corners that become dark, into places in which they do not belong and into moments that will change things utterly for his imperfect protagonists. The stories in What you might find grapple with misunderstandings, the weight of pasts and the moments when fates change course.Richard Holt's stories are truly addictive: p...

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." Nathaniel HawthorneIn this anthology, over 40 writers measure time in inventive ways. There are microlit about toenail clippings and fish casserole to text messages, that lost daylight-saving hour and some brilliant pieces on the more political associations with time such as climate change, the refugee crisis and terrorism.Includes pieces from emerging Indigenous writer, Raelee Lancaster along...

Bringing together 20 very different stories, My Life and Other Fictions is a bold debut from Michael Giacometti and a unique exercise in experimentation with form and voice. Initially it seems like there is no common thread, the reader is taken from modern day to the past and back again, and it's impossible to predict what the next story will be. An extended vignette on a football training session feeds into a doomed boat journey, and a tale o...

The microliterature here ranges across most short forms of writing that do not have line breaks: flash fiction, prose poetry, postcard fiction and nonfiction. Given the richness of form, the anthology has been arranged as a series of micro-flights that are placed in juxtaposition with each other. Instead of placing all the flash fiction together, all the light-hearted pieces together or all the pieces with historical landmarks together, the mi...

This book about writing and the imagination is essential reading for any writer, emerging or experienced. Re-released with new material and updated advice for the 21st century writer. 'I first read Dear Writer as a nervy, secretive scribbler-in-journals 20 years ago. Reading this revised version I'm struck again by its practical generosity on technical matters - but am also inspired by the deeper, more complex conversations I think I missed i...

The World to Come showcases an incredibly diverse exploration of the themes of Science Fiction: future sex, alternate history, racism, procreation and energy.' KAARON WARREN, Canberra Critics award-winner In selecting these stories from a global call-out, we looked for pieces that contemplated 'the world to come' in ways that, regardless of genre, surprised, delighted, enthralled or horrified us. Here, science fiction mixes with fantasy, w...

In this collection, Vivienne Plumb is interested in women who are the road. In the title story, 'Glove Box', an otherwise house-bound and straight-laced mother regularly takes off in the family's old Jag for hours on end. Other characters hitchhike, crisscrossing the Australian continent, accepting lifts in trucks, cars and kombi vans with trees painted on them. They are running away from dysfunctional families, they are seeking adventure or j...

Manning's odd, off-kilter world is strangely addictive and her images will leave an impression precisely because they refuse definition.' Jennifer Mills, OverlandIn these seventeen stories, Melbourne writer, Mary Manning, looks at the ways people are shaped, or damaged, by their circumstances. The results may sometimes be humorous, sometimes tragic. Whether set on a tram, along a highway or on an outback road?it is the journey, the characters ...

Cracking The Spine is the most innovative resource in Australian literature I have seen in many years. An anthology of contemporary short stories, each with a commentary by their authors, the collection breaks down the wall between the creative and discursive, the imagistic and the expository. Filled with cutting-edge, innovative writers and armed with an expansive definition of what it is to be an Australian, Cracking the Spine will be at onc...

If the art of the short story is knowing what to leave out, what is the art of microfiction? The authors included in Writing to the Edge demonstrate many ways of making much from little. In pieces ranging in length from a few pages to a line or two, they intrigue, amuse, sadden and enlighten us in turn. Their carefully chosen words and striking images provide vivid glimpses into other lives, other places, other minds.' EMERITUS PROF. ELIZABETH...

Here are tales of service station hold-ups, random violence in elevators, shark attacks and road fatalities. Complete narratives, with well-drawn characters and plotlines all in 200 words or less. There are short pieces about supermarkets, computers and dogfights - all packed with emotional punch. Some describe quiet but no less significant moments: a child colouring in, a seagull stealing a chip. Some show us the magic of quotidian li...

Here are short and clever pieces by thirty contemporary Australian writers on topics ranging from the eroticism of mash potato, parenting as magic realism and a tongue-in-cheek history of the Cyclops bicycle. 'The fusion of poetry and prose has created a feast for our literary taste buds. Expect synergy.' Julie Chevalier, an editor of Small Wonder. Prose poems and microfiction appeal to people don't have the time to read War and Peace. They ap...

In this short story collection, travellers on highways and trains are preoccupied with the lives of the dead, with lost children or with parents. A woman searches a suburban deadland for her missing mother. A rural family struggles on a land that fails to sustain them. A young man's attempt to leave the strictures of family life ends in violence. Jane Skelton writes cool prose about hot landscapes, about characters seeking relief from strong ...