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'After 65 issues of Australian Short Stories from 1982-2000 we are back with a sparkling new collection of stories. In this collection we feature Gillian Mears' last story. We published Gillian's first story when she was 23 and followed up with examples of her work for 16 years. There are also new stories by old favourites, Kim Scott, Carmel Bird and Barry Dickins plus a series of stories from writers in the early stages of their careers. Open at the first page and savour Australia.' (Publication summary)
Contents
- Water Country, single work short story
- Love Letter to Lola, single work short story
- Slow Time, single work short story
- Bees, single work short story
- Heartstones, single work short story
- Japanese, single work short story
- Ghost Moth, single work short story
- I Remember My Dream, single work short story
- Beginnings : Three Pieces, single work short story
- A Love Letter to Jesus Christ, single work short story
- The Bush Oven, single work short story
- The Laucke Flourbag, single work short story
- Stranger in the Night, single work short story
- The Smoking Light, single work short story
- Shadows on the Wall, single work short story
- Iggy Monologue, single work short story
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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A Long Time between Drinks
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;
— Review of Australian Short Stories no. 66 2018 periodical issue short story'In a 1987 interview with Kevin Brophy and Nolan Tyrrell for Going Down Swinging, Bruce Pascoe explained his reason for starting Australian Short Stories magazine five years earlier:
As a writer of short stories I was disappointed with what was happening to my stories when they were published. Apart from the few stories I got published in The Sun and The Sydney Sun-Herald, I wasn’t getting any readers… I started Australian Short Stories because I was offended by the rates of pay, offended by the lack of readership, and felt that the intelligence of the readership was still there. (Pascoe quoted in Going Down Swinging 1987)
'For short story writers living in Australia in 2018, the disappointing situation Pascoe describes is more or less unrecognisable – newspapers accepting submissions for short fiction, indeed!' (Introduction)
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A Long Time between Drinks
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;
— Review of Australian Short Stories no. 66 2018 periodical issue short story'In a 1987 interview with Kevin Brophy and Nolan Tyrrell for Going Down Swinging, Bruce Pascoe explained his reason for starting Australian Short Stories magazine five years earlier:
As a writer of short stories I was disappointed with what was happening to my stories when they were published. Apart from the few stories I got published in The Sun and The Sydney Sun-Herald, I wasn’t getting any readers… I started Australian Short Stories because I was offended by the rates of pay, offended by the lack of readership, and felt that the intelligence of the readership was still there. (Pascoe quoted in Going Down Swinging 1987)
'For short story writers living in Australia in 2018, the disappointing situation Pascoe describes is more or less unrecognisable – newspapers accepting submissions for short fiction, indeed!' (Introduction)