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Features American authors: Holly Iglesias & Peter Johnson and Australian authors: Julia Prendergast & Paul VenzoIn this anthology of microliterature over forty writers explore the theme of travel, from the confusing variety of toilets found around the world to adrenaline-inducing bus trips, the surprise child of a holiday romance, and a businessman''s life-threatening cycle to the office. There are adventures in Australia and abroad, journeys to other planets, expeditions into deep seas, travellers who haven''t left their houses and those who are forced to leave their homelands.Each story, at less than a page in length, is perfect for reading on the go. Edited by award-winning writer, Cassandra Atherton along with guest curator joanne burns. The anthology includes pieces by commissioned well-known writers from Australia and abroad as well as new voices unearthed through the national Microlit Award named in joanne burns'' honour.  

In prose that sparkles with wit, shocks with insight, and beguiles with the air of legend, these eight stories take the reader from post-apocalyptic Tasmania to the tragedy of surrogate pregnancy in the 1950s. Loss of species, the whims of publishers, the question of Islam in regional Australia - these are among the subjects Carmel Bird addresses in her characteristic probing style.

From the assassination in Australia, one of a series of international terrorist attacks, the story traces back to the streets of 1920s Berlin and the Armenian genocide of World War I. Three companion essays provide historical context.'Weaves a mostly-forgotten strand of our history into a compelling contemporary crime story.'- Emily Maguire'A heartfelt and gripping story of family, hardship and resilience.'- Candice Fox

A collection of microfiction and short stories by Australian author and artist, Richard Holt.Richard Holt invites readers into corners that become dark, into places in which they do not belong and into moments that will change things utterly for his imperfect protagonists. The stories in What you might find grapple with misunderstandings, the weight of pasts and the moments when fates change course.Richard Holt’s stories are truly addictive: perfectly formed, funny and tragic glimpses under the surface of life.TONI JORDAN, Our Tiny, Useless HeartsRichard Holt's work combines unique storytelling voices, finely crafted stories and an appreciation of the particular constraints and possibilities of flash fiction.CALUM KERR, Director, National Flash-Fiction Day (UK)In the fewest of words, Richard Holt evokes powerful moods, morally complex stories, immersive settings, and characters that are heartbreakingly human. His stories are a deft blending of literary and vernacular voices.ILKA TAMPKE, SkinRICHARD HOLT is a writer from Melbourne. His microfiction has been published by Spineless Wonders (Stoned Crows…, 2012, Writing To The Edge, 2013, Flashing The Square, 2014, Out of Place, 2105, Landmarks, 2017), Cuttlefish, Visible Ink, and by UK publisher, Gumbo Press. His short stories have been published in Visible Ink, Etchings, Victorian Writer, Best Australian Sports Writing (Random House, 1997) and online in the Irish Literary Review. He was a Semi-Finalist in the Raymond Carver Short Story Competition, 2016, and is a past winner of the Antipodes Sorrento Short Story Competition. His poetry is included in Australian Love Poems (Inkerman & Blunt, 2013) and has been broadcast on Radio National and 3RRR. His non-fiction writing has appeared in journals including ArtLink, World Art, Art Monthly and AR (Architecture Review) and his creative non-fiction has appeared in a number of collections of sports writing. He also produces text-based videos, artworks and interactive text-based installations for public spaces, and was co-founder of Melbourne zine store, Sticky. He is a former recipient of a Maurice Saxby Mentorship for Children’s Writers and Illustrators and was Bayside Writer in Residence in 2013. 

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” Nathaniel HawthorneIn this anthology, over 40 writers measure time in inventive ways. There are microlit about toenail clippings and fish casserole to text messages, that lost daylight-saving hour and some brilliant pieces on the more political associations with time such as climate change, the refugee crisis and terrorism.Includes pieces from emerging Indigenous writer, Raelee Lancaster along with award-winning authors Dominique Hecq, Andy Jackson, Mark O’Flynn and finalists from The joanne burns Award.Hand-picked by writer, critic and academic, Cassandra Atherton. Her most recent books of prose poetry are Trace (Finlay Lloyd, 2015) and Exhumed (Grand Parade, 2015).Perhaps time is the best possible theme for an anthology of micro-fiction and prose poetry; it emphasises a small aperture, a modest economy, the sense this form can give of something particular standing in for the greater, messier and much harder-to-read larger world. Here, nothing is permanent, but so much is made of each particular perspective and of the raw beauty inherent in change.JULIENNE VAN LOONTime is filled with a fascinating variety of meditations on the fourth dimension. Time here is deep time, ancestral time, the elided time of memory, the looping time of held trauma. Sometimes it fails to run at all. Mostly it refuses to last.MELINDA SMITH