We are thrilled to announce this year’s Slinkies authors. In the next series of posts we bring you interviews with 2020 Slinkies authors, Sophie Overett, Harry Goddard, Ch’aska Cuba de Reed, Liam Higham, Sky Carrall, Emil Colic, Tehya Nicholas and Thomas Alan. In this post, Sophie Overett talks about her short story, Drift about levitating … Read More
The winning entry in the 2020 National Phone It In Competition is Jocelyn Saunders for her piece, ‘Only In My Mind’. Jocelyn receives a $200 book voucher. Thanks to all those who took part in the People’s Choice poll. Tamzin Ward Kucurs whose story ‘Second Wife ‘ received 383 votes and the voter chosen at … Read More
Join Melbourne crime-writer Andrew Nette and the Little Fictions On Air team for a discussion of ‘Postcard From Cambodia’ narrated by Lauren Hamilton Neil. You can listen to this audio story ahead of time here then join us on Facebook for a chat. The full version of ‘Postcards From Cambodia’ is published in Crime Scenes … Read More
We are very pleased to announce the following nine shortlisted finalists in this year’s award. Justin Wolfers selected the finalists from a very strong field of submissions. The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Awards is for collections of short fiction and novella up to 30, 000 words. The winner and two runners up who will receive … Read More
Natalie is excited to celebrate her first year of marriage but the arrival of a piece of paper in the post turns the anniversary sour. Join us for a discussion of SJ Finn’s ‘Paper Anniversary’ at the next audio bookclub on Facebook. You can listen to the Little Fictions On Air episode featuring SJ Finn … Read More
Join author Carmel Bird, the Little Fictions On Air team and a bunch of avid readers next Wednesday night, May 27 between 8pm and 9pm on the SW Audio Bookclub Facebook group for a discussion of this powerful audio story about child sexual abuse within religious institutions. Award-winning author Carmel Bird’s story is set in … Read More
For the past two months, we have been posting an audio story daily as part of the Infectious Fictions series. We hope they have brought you some welcome distraction in these challenging times. If you would like to re-listen or to share them, you can find them here. And if you are looking for more … Read More
Join our special guest, Claire Aman for an online discussion on our Facebook group about her short audio story, ‘What I Didn’t Put In My Speech’. You can listen to the audio story, narrated by Eleni Schumacher before we meet, using this link https://www.2rph.org.au/audiofiles/Ep49WhatIDidntPutInMySpeech4May2020BC.mp3 No webcam, no Zoom. If you enjoy bookclubs where the company … Read More
In the next online bookclub meeting, we’ll be chatting with Melbourne author, Pierz Newton-John about his audio story ‘Salt’. Originally published in Pierz’s debut collection of short stories Fault Lines, ‘Salt’ explores the experience of caring for a loved one as they die. It is read by Little Fictions’ actor Ella Watson-Russell. Do join us … Read More
We will be discussing the short story ‘Rent’ by Melbourne writer Anthony Lynch and published by Spineless Wonders.‘Rent’ tells the story of Rae a post-grad uni student and the unexpected problems she encounters with her new housemate, Astrid. You can listen now or download to listen later ‘Rent’ here Anthony’s work has also been shortlisted … Read More
