Short stories

Since Tchekhov, the affinities between the short story and poetry, especially lyric poetry, have been remarked often enough for one's interest to be aroused in…

Examines responses to a survey asking contributors to Moorhouse’s anthology of short stories State of the Art for biographical details which, however, were not published…

There was a time, though I think that time is past, when a young girl's first public appearance at a ball was a very significant…

Christina Stead discusses her career and approach to writing.

Desmond O'Grady discusses his approach to writing.

Shirley Hazzard has nominated, as a possible title for her talk, the phrase 'no-man's land'. If one allows that phrase to resonate images crowd into…

‘…When Lucy Sussex’s own clever detective work revealed that the pseudonyms of W.W. and Waif Wander belonged to Fortune, an exciting chapter in colonial literary…

‘Paul Eggert writes on the discovery of Henry Lawson’s prose sketch ‘Selection Farms’.

This essay examines the three Yarra River stories in Tony Birch’s short fiction collections. ‘The Sea of Tranquillity’ ‘The Chocolate Empire’ and ‘The Toecutters’ all…

This paper examines the ways in which short stories have interacted with different national contexts throughout the history of modern Australia, endorsing and resisting what…