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Inaugural Novella Award closes EOFY
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Novella Prize—Publication Pathway and Cash Prize
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Have you written a novella in prose or verse? Or a hybrid novella that crosses genre boundaries?
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Enter the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) and Spineless Wonders publishing (SW) ‘Novella Prize’ for your chance to win.
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Submissions close June 30, 2024. Enter here.
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Enjoy our Espressos!
SHORT | FULL STRENGTH
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Spineless Wonders is thrilled to introduce Espresso, its new imprint for novella and verse novels. For the past decade, Spineless Wonders has published high quality, innovative short-form prose. Titles include novellas such as The Rattler by A.S Patric (2011), My Name Is Revenge by Ashley Kalagian Blunt (2019), Zorba The Buddha by Katerina Cosgrove (2021), All The Unloved by Susan McCreery (2023) and the verse novel, brb: be right back by Maree Dawes (2014). The first two titles released under the Espresso imprint in April, 2024 are Bel Schenk’s The Most Famous Boy In Town and Antonia Pont’s The Memory Library.
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The Most Famous Boy in Town
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Latest release under our new Espresso imprint
Bel Schenk
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‘What hope for a whale, a girl, a town?
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The Most Famous Boy in Town explores the ramifications of toxic masculinity in a football-obsessed town in Victoria. Set in Charlotte Bay, a masculine town with a feminine name, this novella unfolds in the week before the local Aussie Rules grand final, where Lucas Walker is expected to lead the Hawks to victory. After a beach party, Lucas's sixteen-year-old brother Ryan wakes to find a humpback whale on the foreshore. As the rescue mission unfolds, blurry recollections of his brother's assault on a girl begin to weigh on his conscience. What exactly did he see, and how will he make sense of it when so many around him worship the star player?
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Paperback, 203 pages, $24.99 + postage
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$24.99
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Latest release under our new Espresso imprint
Antonia Pont
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Retro-tainment, existential eavesdropping, or the future of self-help?
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After an unspecified disaster, the future is quiet and analogue. Behind a doorway in the old town, a private library service flourishes. Signed up by the inscrutable Charlie, patrons subscribe to a membership they don’t fully understand. Whether heartbreak, a rainstorm, or habitual brittleness leads you to The Memory Library, your contributions can be accommodated.
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With illustrations by Richard Holt.
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Paperback, 103 pages, $24.99 + postage
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$24.99
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For this year’s NWF/joanne burns Microlit Award, we invite submissions which respond to the theme of ricochet. Award judges, Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington (pictured below) will look for ricochets or instances of sudden redirection which function to skew the reader’s sense of a work and take them toward unexpected places. They will look for writing which challenges the idea of linear connection. Writing which involves deflected ideas, redirected themes, or the skewing effects of simile and metaphor.
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We particularly invite ekphrastic submissions which ‘bounce off’ artistic works. The choice of artwork can take any form—from paintings, sculptures, photos, posters, comics, graffiti to digital images of all kinds. Even some presentations of food, architecture, music and dance performances might be art that inspires your piece. Please include the reference to the relevant artwork(s) in your submission.
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Finalists selected from this award, along with invited contributors, will be published by Spineless Wonders in Ricochet, a Microlit anthology which will be launched at the 2025 Newcastle Writers Festival.
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The deadline for submissions to both the National and Hunter categories has been extended until Sunday August 4.
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Free place-based writing workshop
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For aspiring writers, or anyone with a story they'd like to tell.
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Join us at 107 Green Square for an afternoon of place-making and storytelling. Have a story you want to craft? Want to learn more about how to weave compelling narratives? Want to just get out and learn more about the local community? Presentor Richard Holt will take you through a storytelling writing workshop to unlock your potential and engage with your local enviornment.
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Presented by author and story coach Richard Holt in association with Spineless Wonders publishing and brought to you by 107 Projects, City of Sydney and Create NSW.
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Dates for Your Diary
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Sat, 6 July, 5pm – The Memory Library launch, Run Artist Run Gallery, 6 Waterside Place, Docklands, Naarm/Melbourne
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Sun, 4 Aug – NWF/joanne burns Microlit Award closes 12 midnight
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