Last October, I wrote a Monday Musings post on writers-in-residence programs. The first one I listed, because I listed them alphabetically, was Accor Hotels MGallery Literary Collection. This is (or was?) a collaborative program with Melbourne’s The Wheeler Centre. Quoting what I wrote then, 'it involved providing eight award-winning Australian writers with a short residence … Continue reading Edition de luxe: A collection of short stories
Flash fiction
Monday musings on Australian literature: Australian flash fiction initiatives
It seemed sensible to follow up my review last week of Angela Meyer's collection of flash fiction, Captives, with a selective survey of some Australian initiatives for this sort of fiction. While flash fiction is not new, the internet does seem to be giving it renewed life. An online search will reveal many sites and blogs - … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Australian flash fiction initiatives
Angela Meyer, Captives (Review)
Have you read any flash fiction? Some of the pieces in Pulse would qualify but, besides this, I hadn't read much until I picked up Angela Meyer's collection Captives, which I bought for my Kindle last year. I bought it for a few reasons: I enjoyed and reviewed the short story collection she edited, The great unknown; I follow her blog Literary Minded; and … Continue reading Angela Meyer, Captives (Review)
Whispering Gums 