While the Sun Sets
Reviewed onThe short story in Western Australia has long been a vital, if sometimes overlooked, form, shaped by the state’s vast landscapes, isolation, and rich Indigenous and settler storytelling traditions. In …
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CryBaby
Reviewed onFrom the moment you open CryBaby, Mabel Gibson’s words strike like lightning. ‘I was born a human storm,’ she begins, setting the tone for a collection that is as fierce …
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The Burrow
Reviewed onIt is no secret that pets can fundamentally change a family’s dynamic. In The Burrow, Melanie Cheng takes this premise to heart, dropping the reader into the midst of the …
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Ourselves: 100 Micro Memoirs
Reviewed onOurselves: 100 Micro Memoirs is a one of a kind collection, both literally and figuratively. Speaking to the former, it is the first micro memoir anthology published in Australia and …
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Kintsugi
Reviewed onShortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Kintsugi by Marie O’Rourke is a book that, in her own words, resists the ‘tradition of first person, past-tense, chronological, narrative …
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Greater City Shadows
Reviewed onShortlisted for the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award, Perth writer Laurie Steed’s short story collection Greater City Shadows is his third book after the novel You Belong Here and the memoir …
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I am the Mau and other stories
Reviewed onI am the Mau and other stories by Chemutai Glasheen is a collection of well-crafted and engaging short stories that skilfully combines experiences common to many young people with the …
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An Unexpected Party
Reviewed onWhat is ‘Queer YA Fiction?’ Editor Seth Malacari poses this question almost immediately in his introduction to An Unexpected Party. In the words and the stories that follow, he seeks …
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Three Can Keep A Secret
Reviewed onNight Parrot publishers Linda Martin and Laura Keenan have done it again with their third flash-fiction anthology, Three Can Keep A Secret. ‘It’ in this case is a diverse, compelling and surprising …
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In the State of Excitement
Reviewed onIn the State of Excitement is Scottish-Australian writer Paul Laverty’s third book, this time a collection of short-short stories and some slightly longer stories set in each of 52 Perth …
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