1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which will appear in Writing To The Edge? Nostalgia, mainly. I lived in Paris for six months at a bookstore, and it was one of the best times of my life. I return to it a lot in my writing, but it’s really hard to get … Read More
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joanne burns Award results
From judge, Shady Cosgrove: Maybe great writing happens when readers understand themselves in the global. All of the winning entries were about Australia’s place in the world or the world’s place in Australia. It’s hard to pull off characters that are both personal and universal – but that was the core strength of these three … Read More
Stoned Crow: Kate Walter
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? My partner had asked me to develop a story for a short film. He wanted something with skateboards and wide angles, so I was toying with the idea of a western in a post-apocalyptic Sydney where … Read More
Stoned Crow: Richard Holt
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? The Swimmer was written looking out on one of those mornings when the coastal horizon has been lost and the grey of sea and sky become one. The story came quickly as I watched a lone … Read More
Stoned Crow: Trina Denner
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? Sport is such a large part of the Australian psyche and the trend in recent years for adults to personalise sport, and the resulting emergence of the ‘Weekend Warrior’, is fascinating to me. The burgeoning social … Read More
The joanne burns Award
As the only publisher of an annual Australian book of prose poems and microfiction, SPINELESS WONDERS is very excited to announce an award named in honour of renowned experimental poet, joanne burns. About joanne burns joanne burns writes poetry [including prose poems], monologues, and short futurist fictions or farables. She has been writing prose poems … Read More
Stoned Crow: Paul Mitchell
1. What inspired you to write the prose poem/microfiction which is published in Stoned Crows & other Australian icons? ‘The Veteran’ came out of a number of dream sequences I’d written that formed part of a novel. Now in about its sixth draft. I no longer needed them in the novel, but I always liked … Read More
Open letter
Dear SPINELESS WONDERS, I facilitate a group of young, emerging writers and have been encouraging them to enter your Icons competition. Could you tell us a little more about it? Yours, Frustr8d Teacher Dear FT, Thank you for your inquiry and for the chance to explain a little more about our latest competition. An icon … Read More
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