As children, many of us were raised on the dream-like qualities of fairy tales. We imagined happi...

The Newcastle Poetry Prize, one of the country's most prestigious and important awards, is always...

On the river whose far bank is unknowablethere's a boat with your name on it.The water birds stan...

'To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.' - Friedrich Nietzsch...

2020 Newcastle Short Story Award Winner: Bird Swing by Ursula Robinson-Shaw From the judges:We ha...

It will remain the single most devastating day of my life.But without the helpers, it would have ...

We conjure a lot of fantastical scenarios within The Story Hunters.Fairy rings, zombie holocausts...

I think about the times that people couldn't look me in the eye because I reminded them of someon...

Saying goodbye at the airport, trying to understand suicide, loss of a baby, loss of a job . . . ...

A father struggles to protect his children from the horrors of an alien apocalypse, an important ...

'To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.' - Friedrich Nietzsch...

I wanted to know. 'Why are its eyes open if he's asleep?''Because he's sleeping much deeper than ...

There are times when I worry the hurt will never leave. The only thing that scares me more is per...

When Lorna was fourteen, the driver of a white station wagon drifted off to sleep and sailed in a...

A few hours after your death, the Eta Aquarids meteor showerpeaked, lighting up the sky with shoo...

The strength of the Newcastle Poetry Prize is that it encourages both emerging and more establish...

The plight of endangered Australian Animals revealed through 14 fiction stories: a Black Cockatoo...

As readers, we can't help wondering about our writers. We want to know what their lives are like,...

The stories and poems become, in a small or large way, our guides and teachers, our colleagues an...

Each poem in this anthology is an anabranch in itself-a deviationfrom the mainstream; a moment wh...

For over 30 years, the Newcastle Poetry Prize has championed Australian poets and their craft.The...

The 2023 Newcastle Short Story Award anthology, skilfully edited by Winnie Dunn, 2023 Judge and G...

For over 30 years, the Newcastle Poetry Prize has championed Australian poets and their craft.The...

An anthology of the best of Australian writing. Poems, personal essays and short stories about gr...

2020 is the 8th year of the Grieve Project. Since 2013, Australians have submitted poems and stor...