In this new blog series, we invite publishing intern Angela Jin to share her latest musings with us. This week she’s been up at 3am contemplating life as Will Smith in ‘I Am Legend’.
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Meet the 2020 Slinkies: Thomas Alan
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, Thomas talks about his short fiction, Stumps/Smokes, how adolescent … Read More
Meet the 2020 Slinkies: Tehya Nicholas
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, Tehya talks about her microfiction, ‘Rosie’ , her favourite … Read More
Meet the 2020 Slinkies: Emil Cholic
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 Cholic , Tehya Nicholas and Thomas Alan. In this post, Emil talks about his short story, Linesman and about … Read More
Meet the 2020 Slinkies: Sky Carrall
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, Sky talks about her microfiction, ‘Midnight Sandwiches’ and ‘Different Seasons’, … Read More
Meet the 2020 Slinkies: Liam Higham
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, Liam talks about his comic zombie short story, Drop Dead … Read More
Meet the 2020 Slinkies: Sophie Overett
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
#Litfest2444 Phone It In winners announced
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
Meet the Phone It In finalists
We are very proud to be introducing you to the six very talented young writers whose micro audio stories on the theme of sound have been selected by our judge Matilda Gould in the #LitFest2444 Phone It In competition. In this post, we share the judge’s report and interviews with the finalists. You can hear … Read More
2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award shortlist announced
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