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Nobody likes you when you’re 23. So say Blink-182. But here at Spineless Wonders we’re here to say ‘Hold on, Bessie, just because you can’t listen to Taylor Swift’s 22 un-ironically anymore doesn’t mean nobody wants you’, because we do.
We do.
Our new digital platform, Slinkies, publishes and promotes the work of a handful of carefully selected Australian under-30s.
Check out our first batch of eSingles, here.
‘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
AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK, HERE
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, with realism in all its sub-genres, with speculative fiction, with the almost unclassifiable.
PATRICK & OM PRAKASH DWIVEDI, Editors
To be launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival by Australian journalist, Jeff McMullen.
‘Literature, life, landscape, history: the whole gamut of Antipodean experience may be gleaned from its pages. An ideal resource for those interested in Ozlit, Cracking the Spine is also a pure pleasure to read.’
GEORDIE WILLIAMSON, Chief Literary Critic, THE AUSTRALIAN
‘A great resource for the classroom, and a great read for anyone who cares about how short stories work.’
KIRSTEN TRANTER, UC BERKELEY
AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK, EBOOK & PDF here.
Cracking the Spine Ten short Australian stories and how they were written
Stories and essays by Claire Aman, Tony Birch, Rjurik Davidson, Michael Giacometti, Marion Halligan, Andy Kissane, Jennifer Mills, Ryan O’Neill, Maria Takolander and Patrick West. With an Introduction by Amanda Lohrey.
Nobody likes you when you’re 23. So say Blink-182. But here at Spineless Wonders we’re here to say ‘Hold on, Bessie, just because you can’t listen to Taylor Swift’s 22 un-ironically anymore doesn’t mean nobody wants you’, because we do.
We do.
Our new digital platform, Slinkies, publishes and promotes the work of a handful of carefully selected Australian under-30s.
Check out our first batch of eSingles, here.
‘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
AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK, HERE
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, with realism in all its sub-genres, with speculative fiction, with the almost unclassifiable.
PATRICK & OM PRAKASH DWIVEDI, Editors
To be launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival by Australian journalist, Jeff McMullen.
‘Literature, life, landscape, history: the whole gamut of Antipodean experience may be gleaned from its pages. An ideal resource for those interested in Ozlit, Cracking the Spine is also a pure pleasure to read.’
GEORDIE WILLIAMSON, Chief Literary Critic, THE AUSTRALIAN
‘A great resource for the classroom, and a great read for anyone who cares about how short stories work.’
KIRSTEN TRANTER, UC BERKELEY
AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK, EBOOK & PDF here.
Cracking the Spine Ten short Australian stories and how they were written
Stories and essays by Claire Aman, Tony Birch, Rjurik Davidson, Michael Giacometti, Marion Halligan, Andy Kissane, Jennifer Mills, Ryan O’Neill, Maria Takolander and Patrick West. With an Introduction by Amanda Lohrey.
EVENTS
Sept
Little Fictions @ The Sydney Fringe Festival
5 Sept ‘Vaginal Spray: feminist tales for women and men’ with guest MC Monique Schafter, Knox St Bar, 7pm
12 Sept ‘The Great Unknown’ with MC Adam Norris, Knox St Bar, 7pm
19 Sept ‘Sydney Stories’ with guest MC Jack (Mr Comedy) Gow, Knox St Bar, 7pm
26 Sept ‘Crime Scenes’ with MC Adam Norris, Knox St Bar, 7pm
Oct
2 Oct Little Fictions Call Out closes
8/9 Oct Spineless Wonders @ Book Expo Australia
11 Oct Little Fictions @ Knox Street Bar
Nov
8 Nov ‘Comedy Knox’ @ Little Fictions, Knox St Bar, 7pm
Dec
13 Dec ‘Xmas Mashup’ @ Little Fictions, Knox St Bar, 7pm
