Phone It In finalist: Anna Jacobson

Phone It In finalist: Anna Jacobson

As part of this year’s National Young Writers’ Festival, the Spineless Wonders’ Slinkies team has been running the Phone It In competition, asking writers under 35 years of age to contribute a short audio story. They had a great response to this call-out and now with the festival only a week away, it is time … Read More

Hard Knots

Hard Knots

Libbie Chellew

With wonderfully intimate detail, Libbie Chellew invites the reader to experience the fears and apprehensions of pregnancy.

Farblondzhet

Farblondzhet

Laurance Levy-Atkinson

A story which asks who are funerals for, anyway?

 

 

 

Buzzing

Buzzing

Kyra Thomsen

In a town living in the shadow of a buzzing power plant, everything gets drowned out.

 

 

 

Headlights Like Satellites

Headlights Like Satellites

Tyler Mahoney

When his dog goes missing, the young narrator in Tyler Mahoney’s ‘Headlights Like Satellites’ has no choice but to turn to Corey, one of the toughest and most connected kids on The Mission where they both live.

 

Kurt And The Interview

Kurt And The Interview

Slade Quinn

‘Kurt and the Interview’ by Slade Quinn takes a deliciously sardonic swipe at contemporary HR practices and office politics.

 

A Remote Presence

A Remote Presence

Ben Brooker

A father mourns for his son in a series of moments which explore a war fought out of sight.

 

Repeat

Repeat

Abby Kong

‘Repeat’ explores the life of  a woman who has lost it all, at the moment she can’t pretend anymore.

 

 

Plain White Reptile House

Plain White Reptile House

Benjamin Spencer

This is a voodoo-like tale of loss, sickness and otherworldliness with such intensity that it feels weirdly grounded in the here and now.