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
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The World To Come: speculative stories with substance
In a recent interview on ABC Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily, Nic Low, an Australian author who has just published his first collection of short stories, Arms Race (Text Publishing) argues that 89% of short fiction produced in Australia is middle class white angst and not really ‘about anything’. In this special blogpost, CAITLIN … Read More
Jail stories by Julie Chevalier
Next on the Spineless Wonders online bookclub, we will be discussing ‘Meant’ one of the linked stories set in Sydney’s Long Bay jail from Julie Chevalier’s collection of short stories. In the article below, Julie talks about the stories and how they came to be written. Research Notes: Permission to Lie by Julie Chevalier Whenever … 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
Long Story winner – Felicity Volk
What Amanda Lohrey said about Felicity Volk’s winning story – Go, you are sent forth (Ite, missa est) ‘ I chose this as the winner because it is a fully developed story. It took me somewhere interesting, it surprised me at several turns, i.e. it developed, and developed interestingly, and it took some bold risks … Read More
Australian Icons competition results
SPINELESS WONDERS is proud to announce the results of the Australian Icons Prose Poetry and Microfiction competition, judged by Carol Jenkins. Our warmest congratulations go to: WINNER ($300) Mark O’Flynn, under the maw of luna park HIGHLY COMMENDED Richard Holt, Bush burial Stu Hatton, down south Trina Denner, Playing Outside Paul Mitchell, The Old Man … Read More
What we talk about when we talk about collections and anthologies Part 2 Book Clubs
In Part 1, I asked some of our top reviewers how they felt about the task of reviewing short fiction. In Part 2, I ponder why it is that Book Clubs may shy away from discussing collection and anthologies, I ask the opinion of some short fiction writers and finally, I provide a few tips … Read More
What we talk about when we talk about collections and anthologies.Part 1: The Reviewers
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. Sylvester Stallone It’s not often that I find myself thinking the same way as Sly, but when The First Tuesday Book Club recently turned down my suggestion to discuss our anthology, Escape, on their … Read More
The Column – one year on
In the past year we’ve had 11,000 visitors to our blog. We’ve posted interviews with 45 top writers of short Australian stories as well as discussions, reviews and essays on what’s new and what matters in the short fiction scene. So, why not join us … Spineless Wonders is looking for contributors to The Column. … Read More