by Black Inc.
Cate Kennedy’s ‘Cold Snap’ appeared as ‘Black Ice’ in the New Yorker on 11 September 2006, in The Best Australian Stories 2006 and in her collection Dark Roots (Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2006).
Anna Krien’s ‘Still Here’ appeared in Griffith Review 28: Still the Lucky Country and in The Best Australian Stories 2010.
Nam Le’s ‘Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice’ appeared in Overland 187, in The Best Australian Stories 2007 and in his collection The Boat (Hamish Hamilton, Sydney, 2008).
Amanda Lohrey’s ‘Reading Madame Bovary’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2002 and in Reading Madame Bovary (Black Inc., Melbourne, 2010).
Joan London’s ‘The New Dark Age’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2002 and in The New Dark Age (Random House, Sydney, 2010).
Campbell Mattinson’s ‘Onionskinny’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2003.
Gillian Mears’ ‘La Moustiquaire’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2001. It became ‘Le Moustiquaire’ in her collection A Map of the Gardens (Picador, Sydney, 2002).
Michael Meehan’s ‘Repossession’ appeared in Meanjin 2/2007 and in The Best Australian Stories 2007.
Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Lorraine Bracco’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2007.
Gerald Murnane’s ‘The Boy’s Name Was David’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2002. It will be included in his new collection, A History of Books, to be published by Giramondo Publishing. Reprinted with permission from Golvan Arts Management.
Ryan O’Neill’s ‘The Eunuch in the Harem’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2010.
Paddy O’Reilly’s ‘Speak to Me’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2007 and in her collection The End of the World (University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2007).
Tim Richards’ ‘The Enemies of Happiness’ appeared in Meanjin 3/2002 and in The Best Australian Stories 2002. It will feature in his new collection, Thought Crimes, to be published by Black Inc. in 2011.
Mandy Sayer’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ appeared in Heat 19: Trappers Way (Giramondo Publishing, Sydney, 2009) and in The Best Australian Stories 2009.
Nicholas Shakespeare’s ‘The White Hole of Bombay’ appeared in Granta 100 and in The Best Australian Stories 2008.
Chloe Walker’s ‘Escargot Postel’ appeared in The Sleepers Almanac No. 4 (Sleepers Publishing, Melbourne, 2008) and in The Best Australian Stories 2008.
Tara June Winch’s ‘Cloud Busting’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2005.
Tim Winton’s ‘Aquifer’ appeared in The Best Australian Stories 2001 and in The Turning (Picador, Melbourne, 2004).
Notes on Contributors
Steven Amsterdam is a writer and palliative care nurse in Melbourne. His debut Things We Didn’t See Coming was the Age Book of the Year and was longlisted for the Guardian’s First Book Award. His next book will be published by Sleepers in 2011.
Jessica Anderson (1916–2010) was the author of seven novels and two collections of short stories. She won the Miles Franklin Award twice, in 1978 for Tirra Lirra by the River and in 1980 for The Impersonators. She died in Sydney in 2010.
Murray Bail’s novels include Eucalyptus and The Pages.
Emily Ballou is a poet, novelist and screenwriter. Her verse portrait of Charles Darwin, The Darwin Poems, was awarded the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize in 2009 and shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Prize and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She has published two novels, Father Lands and Aphelion.
Tom Cho is an artist and the author of Look Who’s Morphing, a collection of stories published by Giramondo in 2009. He is working on a second book, The Meaning of Life and Other Fictions.
Patrick Cullen’s short stories have appeared in many anthologies and been broadcast on ABC Radio National. He lives in Newcastle with his wife and two children. His first book, What Came Between, was published in 2009.
Luke Davies is the author of three novels, Isabelle the Navigator, Candy and God of Speed. A film version of Candy was released in 2006 and won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He has also published five books of poetry and was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Poetry in 2004.
Liam Davison has published four novels: The Velodrome, Soundings, The White Woman and The Betrayal, as well as two collections of short stories. He has been shortlisted for numerous major literary prizes and won the National Book Council’s Banjo Award for Soundings.
Robert Drewe was born in Melbourne and grew up on the West Australian coast. His many novels and short stories and his prize-winning memoir, The Shark Net, have been widely translated, won national and international awards, and been adapted for film, television, radio and theatre around the world. He edited The Best Australian Stories 2006 and 2007.
Will Elliott’s debut novel, The Pilo Family Circus, won five national literary awards and was shortlisted for the International Horror Guild Award. His second book, Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2010. He is presently completing a fantasy trilogy, The Pendulum Trilogy. He lives in Brisbane.
Delia Falconer is the author of two novels, The Service of Clouds (short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award) and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers. She edited The Best Australian Stories 2008 and 2009 and The Penguin Book of the Road. An acclaimed essayist, short-story writer and critic, she holds a PhD in English literature and cultural studies from the University of Melbourne.
Peter Goldsworthy has won literary awards across a range of genres and has twice been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award: in 1990 for Maestro, and in 2003 for Three Dog Night, which also won the Christina Stead Award and was longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Prize. His most recent novel, Everything I Knew, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Fiction Prize. A new collection of short stories, Gravel, was published in 2010.
Kate Grenville’s novels include Lilian’s Story (winner of the Australian/ Vogel Prize), Dark Places, Joan Makes History, The Idea of Perfection (winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction), The Secret River (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the NSW Premier’s Literary Award) and The Lieutenant.
Marion Halligan is the author of some twenty books, including The Fog Garden, The Point, The Taste of Memory, The Apricot Colonel and Valley of Grace. She lives in Canberra.
Sonya Hartnett is the author of many novels for children and adults, including The Silver Donkey and Of a Boy. She lives in Melbourne.
Karen Hitchcock’s debut collection of short stories, Little White Slips, was published in 2009. She is a medical registrar at the John Hunter Hospital and a lecturer in medicine at the University of Newcastle, and has a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Newcastle.
Eva Hornung’s novels include Hiam (winner of the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Nita May Dobbie Award), The City of Sealines, Mahjar (winner of the Steele Rudd Award), Fire Fire and The Marsh Birds. Her most recent novel, Dogboy, won the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction.
Janette Turner Hospital’s novels include The Ivory Swing, The Last Magician (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Oyster (short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award), Due Preparations for the Plague (winner of the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award) and Orpheus Lost. She holds an endowed chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
Two of Dorothy Johnston’s eight novels – One for the Master and Ruth – have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. She is also the author of crime novels including The Trojan Dog, which was joint winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award and Highly Commended for the Davitt Award.
Cate Kennedy is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection Dark Roots and the novel The World Beneath, as well as poetry collections and a travel memoir. Her work has appeared in many publications and anthologies, including the Harvard Review and the New Yo
rker. She edited The Best Australian Stories 2010.
Anna Krien’s work has appeared in the Monthly, the Age, the Big Issue, Griffith Review, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Colors, frankie and Dazed & Confused. Her first book, Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests, was published in 2010.
Nam Le is the author of The Boat, which won over a dozen major awards and was selected for over thirty ‘best books of the year’ lists internationally. He is the fiction editor of the Harvard Review and divides his time between Melbourne and overseas.
Amanda Lohrey was born in Tasmania, where she lives today. She is the author of five novels: The Morality of Gentlemen, The Reading Group, Camille’s Bread (winner of the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award), The Philosopher’s Doll and Vertigo, as well as a collection of short stories, Reading Madame Bovary. She has also written two Quarterly Essays, ‘Groundswell’ and ‘Voting for Jesus’.
Joan London is the author of two prize-winning collections of stories, Sister Ships and Letter to Constantine (published together by Picador as The New Dark Age). Her first novel, Gilgamesh, was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, named the Age Fiction Book of the Year, and longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Dublin Impac Award. Her second, The Good Parents, won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
Campbell Mattinson won the Best Australian Sports Writing Award in 1996 and has twice won Australia’s Wine Communicator Award. He is the author of The Wine Hunter, The Big Red Wine Book, and Thick Skins (USA). He is the publisher of www.winefront.com.au and is currently working on a book of fiction.
Gillian Mears’ books include The Mint Lawn (winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) and Fineflour. Allen and Unwin will publish her new novel, Foal’s Bread, in 2011.
Michael Meehan’s novels have been published in Australia, the UK and the US. His first novel, The Salt of Broken Tears, won the New South Wales Premier’s Award for Fiction in 2000. He is also the author of Stormy Weather, Deception and, most recently, Below the Styx. He is professor of communication and creative arts at Deakin University in Melbourne.
Frank Moorhouse has won a number of literary prizes across his career, including the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal in 1989. His most recent novel, Dark Palace, won the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Age Book of the Year Award. He edited The Best Australian Stories 2004 and 2005.
Gerald Murnane’s books include Tamarisk Row, A Lifetime on Clouds, The Plains, Landscape with Landscape and, most recently, Barley Patch. He has received the Patrick White Award, an Australia Council emeritus award, and the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Giramondo will publish his new collection of short stories in 2011.
Ryan O’Neill’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published two short story collections, Six Tenses and A Famine in Newcastle. The latter was shortlisted for the 2007 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. He lives in Newcastle, New South Wales with his wife and daughters.
Paddy O’Reilly is the author of a short-story collection, The End of the World, a novel, The Factory, and a novella, ‘Deep Water.’ Her stories have won national and international awards and been widely published and broadcast.
Tim Richards is the author of two collections of stories, Duckness and Letters to Francesca, and a novel, Prince. He has worked as a television writer, script editor and teacher of creative writing. His new collection of stories, Thought Crimes, will be published by Black Inc. in 2011.
Mandy Sayer has published ten books of fiction and non-fiction. Her awards include the Australian/Vogel Award (for Mood Indigo), the National Biography Award (Dreamtime Alice), the Age Non-fiction Book of the Year (Velocity) and the Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction (The Night Has a Thousand Eyes). She lives in Sydney.
Nicholas Shakespeare is the prize-winning author of six novels, most recently Snowleg. His work has been translated into twenty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Chloe Walker is a writer and editor. Her fiction has appeared in The Sleepers Almanac, Verandah, Voiceworks and the American anthology One Step Beyond.
Tara June Winch was born near Sydney in 1983. She is of Wiradjuri, Afghan and English heritage. She has published widely in anthologies and her first novel, Swallow the Air, was published in 2006. She has won many awards, including the International Rolex Mentor and Protégé Award, and the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writers.
Tim Winton is the author of thirteen books, including novels, short stories, non-fiction and books for children. He has won the Miles Franklin Award three times, for Shallows in 1984, Cloudstreet in 1991 and Dirt Music in 2002. His other awards include the Banjo Prize, the Western Australian Premier’s Prize, the DEO Gloria Award (UK) and the Christina Stead Award.