Spineless Wonders loves its interns! They have been responsible for some of our terrific online campaigns, exciting digital products, creative booktrailers and many, many high quality published stories and articles. Our popular online bookclub was inspired by intern, Melissa-Jane Fogarty who now runs her own editing business and our terrific newsletter, Sluglines, was first set … Read More
Meet the Slinkies: Nick Couldwell
Our Slinkies editor, Laura Barry put some curly questions to our latest Slinkies’ author, Nick Couldwell. LB: Do you remember the name and personality of the first character you ever created? NC: My Mum kept a story I had written when I was in the early years of primary school. I don’t remember how old … Read More
Q & A with Jen Craig
Jen Craig Jen Craig’s novella, Panthers and the Musuem of Fire was recently given a five star review and named Book of the Month by Australia’s premier book industry magazine, Bookseller + Publisher. In her review, Angie Andrewes described Jen’s book as ‘an experimental novella but surprisingly easy to read, and brilliant for the very … Read More
Words and images: on collaborations
What happens when the visual and the verbal meet – when creatives working in different disciplines put their heads together? We talk with authors Jen Craig and Patrick Lenton and artists Bettina Kaiser and Daniel Lethlean Higson about the collaborative processes behind our upcoming releases A Man Made Entirely of Bats and Panthers and the … Read More
5 reasons to bookclub with SW
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