Upcoming 2024 Festival guest Catherine McNamara has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for her collection The Carnal Fugues! According to the judges: The sentences in The Carnal Fugues are darkly brilliant, biting, vital, comic. They flash along, discharging an energy that Read More
by Suzanne Mazri The norms in which cultural communities in Australia and the Indian subcontinent tolerate adversity is a central focus in Glass Walls: Stories of tolerance and intolerance from the Indian subcontinent and Australia. Edited by writers Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle, Read More
by Suzanne Masri Australian Short Stories sheds a light on the human condition within a conflicted, magnificent landscape that is distinctly ours. The collection explores the sphere of each character’s world to appreciate a collective consciousness of belonging, place, and survival. Australian Short Read More
by Sally Edwards Fait accompli – the notion that we must accept what is pre-destined for us. We must accept what we cannot change. Bindy Pritchard’s debut short story collection, Fabulous Lives, explores the way we, as humans, deal with what life hands Read More