Cover by Richard Holt Spineless Wonders will soon release its annual anthology of microliterature. Co-editors, Kirsten Tranter and Linda Godfrey spoke to The Column about how this year’s Out of Place theme came about, what they were looking for from contributors and about some of the pieces they have included. Here’s what they said: Throwing … Read More
interviews
Carmel Bird on A Bigger Brighter World
Spineless Wonders is pleased to be able to share this exclusive interview between literary blogger, Marjorie Lewis-Jones and Carmel Bird. For more great interviews and reviews, go to A Bigger Brighter World What makes the human heart tick? Carmel Bird, in her new short story collection, My Hearts Are Your Hearts, deftly probes this question. … Read More
Meet the SW Interns Part Two
We bring you the second in our Where Are They Now series which profiles some of our former interns. We ask them to look back at their internship/work experience with Spineless Wonders and tell us about any highlights and anything they found useful from the experience. We also asked about other internships they have undertaken. … Read More
Meet the Slinkies: JYL Koh
Julie (J.Y.L.) Koh is a fiction writer based in Sydney and we are thrilled to publish her book of short stories, Capital Misfits, as part of our Slinkies Collection series edited by Bridget Lutherborrow. In this interview, Julie talks about transgender wizards, the inspirations behind some of her stories and her writing process. To purchase … Read More
Meet the Slinkies: Ben Brooker
Our intrepid Slinkies editor, Laura Barry pinned down the prolific writer, editor, critic, essayist, and playwright, Ben Brooker and asked him about his writing, his influences and whether he prefers baking to cleaning the house. Here’s what he said: LB: Do you remember the name and the personality of the first character you ever created? BB: … Read More
Meet the interns
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
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