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'The ninth edition of Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. The collection features over fifty writers and awards, and includes a foreword by Sam Cooney, writer, editor, lecturer, tutor and publisher of The Lifted Brow. Many prominent emerging writers are featured in this year’s anthology, including David Campbell, Jacqui Merckenschlager, and Jessica Yu, who appeared as a panellist at the 2016 Emerging Writers’ Festival. As always, the anthology features extensive national representation, with awards from every state and territory in Australia' (Publication summary)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Melbourne Books
, 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Change of Plan, single work short story (p. 17)
- Woodsmoke, single work short story (p. 27-28)
- No Man Is an Island, single work short story (p. 29-37)
- Seven Dreams Roundi"out, one mile out off Goode Beach", single work poetry (p. 38-39)
- The Scent of Life, single work short story (p. 40-46)
- Fair Fight, single work short story (p. 47-50)
- Precipice, single work short story (p. 51-57)
- Flowi"From the multiple pebbles that spatter my course", single work poetry (p. 58-60)
- Scrap Metal, single work short story (p. 61-64)
-
The Privyi"An earth path from the back stairs",
single work
poetry
(p. 65-67)
Note:
Revised.
- Surface, single work short story (p. 68-75)
- The View from a Balcony in Noosai"She has taken her old bones north", single work poetry (p. 76-77)
- The Disappearance of Buck, single work short story (p. 78-85)
- Sick Lambi"No way to tell you that you have the best of it", single work poetry (p. 86-87)
- Frank, single work short story (p. 88-98)
- Ludmilla's Cottagei"In the valley mist curdles", single work poetry (p. 99-101)
- Elegy, single work short story (p. 102-104)
- Land of the Saltbushi"Listen, there is nothing but a sighing,", single work poetry (p. 105)
- The Departure, single work short story (p. 106-112)
- Short-Term People, single work short story (p. 113-126)
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