Beware Of The God
Sue Booker
Can our differing ideas and attitudes towards pets and livestock, tell us more about our own nature and our relationships with each other?
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Empty Rooms
Sue Goldstiver
In ‘Empty Rooms’, Sue Goldstiver delivers an edgy narrative that maintains a tension that both unsettles and intrigues whilst keeping you guessing all the way to its eventual conclusion.
The Carmel Bird Award
About the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award Please note, this award will not be offered in 2022. Since 2011, Spineless Wonders has auspiced an award for the best short fiction writing in honour of foremost Australian author, Carmel Bird. Finalists chosen by each year’s judging panel are offered publication in either our bi-annual anthology alongside … Read More
Out of Place: Mark Smith
Mark Smith is a regular contributor to Spineless Wonders and winner of the 2013 joanne burns Award. In this brief interview, Mark talks about the origins of the moving and evocative microfiction, ‘Less Than A Minute’, which is published in Out of Place, and about the influences on his writing. To read Mark’s story and … Read More
Double launch: My Hearts Are Your Hearts and Michael McGirr Selects series
Guest blogger, Rebecca Parker reports on the recent launch of Carmel Bird’s latest collection, My Hearts Are Your Hearts and the Michael McGirr Selects series of digital long stories. On Saturday the 25th of July I traipsed up the stairs of Berkelouw books to attend my first book launch. Walking into a room full of … Read More
Michael McGirr Selects: Marjorie Lewis-Jones
We are thrilled to be releasing, ‘We’re All Travellers Here’, the winning entry from the 2014 Carmel Bird Award chosen by judge, Michael McGirr. Marjorie Lewis-Jones’ story is the first of the series of twelve digital long stories to be released over coming months. We caught up with Marjorie recently and asked her a few … 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 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
Carmel Bird Award 2014 winner
We are excited to announce that our judge, Michael McGirr, has chosen Marjorie Lewis-Jones’ story, ‘We’re All Travellers Here’ as the winner of the 2014 Carmel Bird Award. Marjorie Lewis-Jones is a Sydney writer and editor. Her story, ‘Shooting Star’ was featured in the Amanda Lohrey Selects series and she recently won the inaugural Lane Cove Literary … 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