1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? The three parts of the poem iconostasis were written at different periods and put together under the ‘three doors’ idea for this publication. The last part was written in a café in Katoomba a few years … Read More
Stoned Crow: Dael Allison
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? I did a Masters of Creative Arts at UTS in 2010/11 and my focus was the great traveler and modernist artist Ian Fairweather (1891-1974). I planned to base a volume of poems on aspects of his … Read More
Stoned Crow: Jude Aquilina
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? For over a decade, I caught public transport to Adelaide’s CBD every working day. I don’t read; I’m not plugged into a pod or gadget. I like to people-watch, and that includes bus drivers, of whom … Read More
The joanne burns Award
As the only publisher of an annual Australian book of prose poems and microfiction, SPINELESS WONDERS is very excited to announce an award named in honour of renowned experimental poet, joanne burns. About joanne burns joanne burns writes poetry [including prose poems], monologues, and short futurist fictions or farables. She has been writing prose poems … Read More
Jean Bedford launches Stoned Crows @SWF2013
Stoned Crows & other Australian icons Launched by Newtown Review of Books As Linda Funnell said, it’s great that small presses like Spineless Wonders will take the risk on these utterly local pieces, edgy as many of them are. Microfiction has established its own space since the days when people like Vicki Viidikas and Anna … Read More
Carol Jenkins riffs on Stoned Crows
Judge’s report by Carol Jenkins Last year I went to the launch of Small Wonders, and while I had really liked the work on paper, I loved hearing it read aloud. It threw the spotlight on the language, the tight and immediate narrative pace and the very funny juggling and juxtaposing of words: The whole … Read More
Stoned Crow: Caroline Reid
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? An idea to write a trilogy of 3 very short stories, each with a character called Michael in it. Could be the same Michael, or could be three different Michaels . This is the first story … Read More
Stoned Crow: Barrie Walsh
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? Inspiration for Howbeit I Howszat came from Melbourne’s Spring Racing Carnival 2013 at the time of writing to Stoned Crows. 2.Tell us about your process. Take us through an example if you want. My thought process … Read More
Stoned Crow: Paul Mitchell
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? ‘The Veteran’ came out of a number of dream sequences I’d written that formed part of a novel. Now in about its sixth draft. I no longer needed them in the novel, but I always liked … Read More
Stoned Crow: Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons?There were a number of inspirations for these prose poems. ‘At Sculpture by the Sea’ is probably self-explanatory. It was a damaging experience in many ways. ‘The Mind Travels’ was my awareness that the mind goes as … Read More