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Enter the 2022 AAWP/ASSF Emerging Writers’ Short Story Prize!

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Head to the AAWP website for more information.

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Save the date for the 2022 Australian Short Story Festival!

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The 2022 Australian Short Story Festival will be held from 28-30 October in Fremantle/Walyalup, Western Australia. Based in the grounds of the beautiful Fremantle Arts Centre, the Festival will feature short story and flash fiction workshops, author panels, story readings, live musical Read More

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Announcing the winner of the 2021 AAWP/ASSF Short Story Prize

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The ASSF would like to offer a huge congratulations to Clare Testoni, winner of the 2021 AAWP/ASSF Short Story Prize, awarded for her story, ‘Video Capture’. Clare Testoni is a playwright, fiction writer, and puppeteer. Her performance practice often involves shadow puppetry Read More

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Media Release

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The 2021 Australian Short Story Festival will be held in Adelaide from November 5th to November 7th. Nestled in the vibrant heart of Adelaide’s city centre in the University of South Australia’s city west campus, the festival will bring together award winning Read More

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AAWP/ASSF Emerging Writers’ Short Story Prize

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This prize is offered in partnership with the Australasian Association of Writing Programs and is aimed at emerging writers across Australasia. The prize includes a ticket to the Australian Short Story Festival in 2021, as well as economy airfares and accommodation, and Read More

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Adelaide Quiz Night

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For all of our Adelaide-based friends and followers, we will be throwing a quiz night to help raise funds for the 2021 festival held here in November. See details below.

Interviews, Interviews

5 Questions with Mark Smith

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by Amy Van der Linden Your author bio makes it clear that you are a talented YA author who has won many awards for your previous works. However, your short story ‘A Concreter’s Heart’ tells the story of a broken man with Read More

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Interview with editors of Australian Short Stories, Bruce Pascoe & Lyn Harwood.

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by Suzanne Masri On what basis did you select the stories in the collection? For example, was there a theme?  For the latest ASS we were very keen to include as many indigenous writers as possible. What was the most challenging aspect Read More

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Interview questions to the Glass Walls editors: Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle

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by Suzanne Masri What does the title Glass Walls truly mean and how does this resonate with the anthology? Meenakshi: Glass Walls, a multivalent and multi-hued title arrived at after serious cogitation, resonates right across the whole gamut of stories on tolerance and Read More

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Interview with Debra Adelaide ‘Zebra and other stories’

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by Wendy Wicks Your latest book Zebra and other stories is a novella with an accompanying set of stories organised with a point of view framework. What was the reason for that?  Putting together a collection of short fiction presents a structural challenge for Read More

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  • Announcing the 2023 AAWP/ASSF Emerging Writers’ Short Story Prize!
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