The Best Australian Stories 2015

by Amanda Lohrey

  Review of Australian Fiction

  Publication Details

  Melissa Beit’s ‘The Three Treasures’ appeared as ‘The Uncarved Block’ in the anthology Still Life (2015).

  Jo Case’s ‘Something Wild’ appeared in the Big Issue, no. 491, 14–27 August 2015.

  Nick Couldwell’s ‘The Same Weight as a Human Heart’ appeared in Westerly, vol. 60 (1), July 2015.

  Jennifer Down’s ‘Aokigahara’ was published in the Australian Book Review, no. 364, September 2014.

  Goldie Goldbloom’s ‘The Pilgrim’s Way’ appeared in Meanjin, vol. 73 (4), 2014.

  Balli Kaur Jaswal’s ‘Better Things’ appeared in Meanjin, vol. 75 (1), 2015.

  Cate Kennedy’s ‘Puppet Show’ appeared in Review of Australian Fiction, vol. 13 (1), 2015.

  Sarah Klenbort’s ‘Into the Woods’ appeared in Overland, no. 216, 2014.

  Julie Koh’s ‘The Level Playing Field’ appeared in Capital Misfits (Spineless Wonders, 2015).

  Jo Lennan’s ‘How Is Your Great Life?’ appeared in Meanjin, vol. 73 (4), 2014.

  Eleanor Limprecht’s ‘On Ice’ appeared in Kill Your Darlings, October 2014.

  Gay Lynch’s ‘The Abduction of Ganymede’ appeared in Breaking Beauty (MidnightSun Publishing, 2015).

  Colin Oehring’s ‘Little Toki’ appeared in Meanjin, vol. 74 (2), 2015.

  Ryan O’Neill’s ‘Alphabet’ appeared in the Monthly, March 2015.

  Omar Musa’s ‘Supernova’ appeared in the Griffith REVIEW, 49.

  John A. Scott’s ‘Picasso: A Shorter Life’ appeared in Southerly, vol. 74 (3).

  Mark Smith’s ‘Manyuk’ appeared in Review of Australian Fiction, vol. 14 (3), 2015.

  Notes on Contributors

  THE EDITOR

  Amanda Lohrey is the author of the acclaimed novels Camille’s Bread, The Morality of Gentlemen, The Reading Group and The Philosopher’s Doll, as well as the novella Vertigo (2008) and the award-winning short story collection Reading Madame Bovary (2010). She has also written two Quarterly Essays: Groundswell and Voting for Jesus. In 2012 she was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award. Her latest novel is A Short History of Richard Kline (2014).

  THE AUTHORS

  Melissa Beit has had stories published in the Big Issue, Southerly, Meanjin, the Sleepers Almanac, the Australian Women’s Weekly and various national and international anthologies including New Australian Stories. She lives in coastal New South Wales.

  Jo Case is the author of Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood, and Asperger’s, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Russell Prize for Humour Writing. She is Program Manager at the Melbourne Writers Festival, and a freelance writer and reviewer.

  Claire Corbett has been published by Griffith REVIEW, Spineless Wonders, Overland, Southerly and Antipodes. Her first novel, When We Have Wings, was shortlisted for the 2012 Barbara Jefferies Award and the 2012 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. She is currently completing her second novel.

  Nick Couldwell has been published in Visible Ink, Writing to the Edge, Seizure, Westerly, Northerly, Out of Place and Award Winning Australian Writing. Nick has a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT and lives in Byron Bay with his partner and two daughters.

  Jennifer Down is a writer and editor from Melbourne. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Saturday Paper, the Lifted Brow and Overland. Her first novel, Our Magic Hour will be published in 2016. ‘Aokigahara’ won the 2014 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Award.

  Goldie Goldbloom’s first novel, The Paperbark Shoe, was awarded the AWP Novel Award and IndieFab Novel of the Year. Her collections, You Lose These (2011) and The Grief of the Body (forthcoming) include many prize-winning stories. She has been granted NEA, Dora Maar and Rona Jaffe fellowships. Goldie teaches fiction at the University of Chicago.

  Balli Kaur Jaswal was a high school teacher in Melbourne for five years. She has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University. In 2014, she was named Best Young Australian Novelist by the Sydney Morning Herald for her debut novel, Inheritance. She lives in Istanbul, Turkey.

  Cate Kennedy writes fiction, poetry and non-fiction, and is currently working on a second novel. She has authored two collections of short stories, Dark Roots and Like a House on Fire. Dark Roots is currently on the Victorian VCE syllabus. She lives in regional Victoria.

  Sarah Klenbort is a casual academic and writer based in Sydney. She is currently looking for a home for her novel. Next year Sarah will travel around Australia in a pop-up camper trailer with her Welsh husband and two girls, eight and four. Starting at the Deaf Games in Adelaide, they will then visit Deaf schools around the country, interviewing members of the Deaf community and writing about their language: Auslan.

  Julie Koh (許瑩玲) studied politics and law at the University of Sydney, where she won the Hedley Bull Prize in International Politics. Her short stories have appeared in Kyoto Journal, the Fish Anthology, the Sleepers Almanac, the Lifted Brow and Seizure Online. Her first collection, Capital Misfits, was published in April 2015. UQP will publish her second collection in 2016.

  Jo Lennan has published short stories in Australia and the United Kingdom. She studied in Sydney, Japan and Oxford, and has worked as a lawyer and journalist. Her reportage appears in Time, the Economist, Intelligent Life and the Monthly.

  Eleanor Limprecht’s first novel, What Was Left, was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. Her second novel, Long Bay, was released in 2015. She also writes short stories, essays and book reviews. Eleanor was born the United States and raised in Germany, Pakistan and the US. She now lives in Sydney.

  Gay Lynch is a writer, editor and teacher of English and creative writing at Flinders University. She has published Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History (2010), Cleanskin (2006), an adult psycho-fem-thriller, short stories, educational children’s texts and academic papers. She is currently working on a historical novel.

  Colin Oehring’s fiction has appeared in the Review of Australian Fiction, Island, Meanjin and the Australian Literary Review. He lives in Melbourne.

  Ryan O’Neill is a short story writer. His latest collection The Weight of a Human Heart is published by Black Inc.

  Omar Musa is a Malaysian-Australian author, rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. His debut novel Here Come the Dogs was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015.

  Nicola Redhouse is a writer and book editor. Her fiction has been published in Best Australian Stories (2014), Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Wet Ink, and harvest, and her non-fiction in the Big Issue, Indigo and RealTime.

  John A. Scott’s writing has been published internationally, twice shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, and received two Victorian Premier’s Prizes. A major experimental novel, N, was published in 2014. He is currently working on a book-length series of poems, Barbarous Sideshow, which resurrects an abandoned project dating from 1967.

  Mark Smith lives on Victoria’s west coast. His writing has appeared in Best Australian Stories (2014), the Big Issue and Review of Australian Fiction, among others, and he has won a number of awards, including the 2015 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize. His novel The Road To Winter will be released in July 2016.

  Annette Trevitt grew up in northern New South Wales. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines and broadcast on ABC radio and by the BBC. She teaches short fiction and screenwriting in a professional writing and editing program. She lives in Melbourne with her son, Marlon.

 

 

 
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