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Grub brings its focus to those things we don’t see, to the people on the edges of society who might be a little “grubby”. Its setting is Sydney’s inner west, in a not-too-distant future, where the looming concerns of today (like climate change and capitalism) have come to pass, and subsistence is commonplace.

Winner of the 2019 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award

‘Grub steps astonishingly outside of realism to vividly imagine a queer dystopian future of sex, sadness and sly humour.’
Moya Costello, award judge

Grub examines our humanity (and sometimes, lack of it) in extreme circumstances.’ Kalhari Jayaweera

TANYA VAVILOVA is an emerging writer preoccupied with liminal spaces and outsider perspectives—by life on the margins. She was recently shortlisted for Overland‘s Neilma Sidney, Overland‘s Fair Australia, Alan Marshall and Katharine Susannah Prichard awards and is the winner of the Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize in 2018.

Published as part of the Spineless Wonders 10th anniversary SW Smalls Series.