Our online bookclub has been operating now for two years and in case you haven’t caught on to what it is about, here’s five great reasons to put your $15 down and get on board. 1. BATS & PANTHERS No, not free animal crackers. The first two sessions will showcase our March releases, Patrick Lenton’s … Read More
2015 joanne burns Awards
Winner announced! 2015 The joanne burns Micro-lit Award Theme: Out of Place We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s joanne burns Award is NICK COULDWELL for ‘Dancing’. Nick will receive a cash prize of $300. Our judge, Kirsten Tranter also commends TIM HEFFERNAN for ‘Butterflies in Iraq’ and MATTHEW GABRIEL for … Read More
What we are reading
As you can see, we’ve had a lot of fun with our #GOB campaign. Pictured here is the talented Adelaide playwright, director and short fiction writer, Caroline Reid sending you a message from her local beach. There’s lots more #GOB shenanigans in the post below. We’d like to say that we were amazed at how … Read More
Carmel Bird Award 2014 winner
We are excited to announce that our judge, Michael McGirr, has chosen Marjorie Lewis-Jones’ story, ‘We’re All Travellers Here’ as the winner of the 2014 Carmel Bird Award. Marjorie Lewis-Jones is a Sydney writer and editor. Her story, ‘Shooting Star’ was featured in the Amanda Lohrey Selects series and she recently won the inaugural Lane Cove Literary … Read More
Michael McGirr Selects …
We are pleased to announce the twelve finalists in the 2014 Carmel Bird Award, judged by Michael McGirr. Our mission for the 2014 competition was to find the best Australian long stories between 4,000 and 10,000 words. We received an unprecedented number of entries and our hard-working judge declared that the whole exercise had been … Read More
Short Story to Short Film: Jon Steiner
Jon Steiner chats with Spineless Wonder’s Irina Markovsky about his recent experiences of getting his short fiction adapted to film 1. Which of your stories is being made into a short film? How did this come about? Did you pitch the story or were you approached? The story is called Gecko. This story and another … Read More
Short Story to Short Film: Louise D’Arcy
Louise D’Arcy’s short story ‘Flat Daddy’ has recently been made into a short film. Here, Louise chats with Spineless Wonder’s Irina Markovsky about this experience. 1. Which of your stories is being made into short film? How did this come about? Did you pitch the story or were you approached? It’s Flat Daddy. It came … Read More
Emilie Collyer: Earworms
We interview Melbourne author and dramatist, Emilie Collyer about the audio story, ‘The Other Guy’ which she recorded for our Earworms program. Here she also talks about the influences on her writing and writing tips. You can preview ‘The Other Guy’, written and narrated by Emilie below. 1. Who are the short fiction … Read More
Bronwyne Thomason: The World To Come
Bronwyne Thomason Our latest anthology, The World To Come, features short speculative fiction by nineteen writers from here and overseas. In this series of interviews we ask contributors about the story published in The World To Come, about their views on the speculative fiction genre, who and what influences their writing and for some inspirational … Read More
Anna Trembath: Earworms
We interview Earworms audio story author, Anna Trembath, who has written and narrated, ‘The Wild’, a story set in Timor-Leste. Listen to an excerpt of ‘The Wild’ below. 1. Who are the short fiction authors you admire (Australian or otherwise, alive or dead)? There are, of course, many! Some of my most favourite collections are … Read More