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Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty

Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty

Gillian Britton, Stephen Lawrence, Brian Castro

In these stories, poems and photographs with Adelaide as its theme, the city sighs with shifting sands. Its mornings swirl with readdressed mail and untended gardens, its afternoons seethe with melting bitumen and its nights crackle with heat, breakdown, the attrition of marriages. The city disgorges stories in the way waste yields coloured glass, not as a collector's item but as something being halted from passing out of memory. - from the foreword by Brian Castro

Contributors
Heather Taylor Johnson, Petra Fromm, Annette Willis, Jude Aquilina, John De Laine, John Griffin, Anna Solding, David Mortimer, Rachel Hennessy, Mary Manning, Angela Smith, Gillian Britton, Harvey Schiller, Bernadette Smith, Jill Jones, Stephen Orr, Ken Bolton, Kate Deller Evans, Amy T Matthews, Steve Evans, Graham Rowlands, Annette Willis, Cath Keneally, Nicholas Jose, Kristel Thornell, Michael Winkler, Rob de Kok, John Tranter (writing as Mark Pallas), Shannon Burns, Annette Bartlett, Nic Rowan, Carol Lefevre, Stephen Lawrence, Ed Douglas, Brunette Lenkic, Alexandra Weaver, Cameron Fuller, Larry Buttrose, Courtney Black, Colin Varney, David Ades.

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Gillian Britton's short stories have most recently been published in Meanjin, Island and Wet Ink. She is currently working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.

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Stephen Lawrence has taught literature and writing for over 25 years, was media columnist for The Adelaide Review, and has edited eight published anthologies of creative work, including City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty (2009). He has been a speechwriter, media, project and publications officer for the South Australian government, and was guest poetry editor for Social Alternatives and Wet Ink. He has won or been shortlisted for twenty Australian literary awards, was a guest author at Writers' Week, and has been a judge for the Festival Literary Awards since 2002.

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Brian Castro was educated at the University of Sydney and has worked in Australian, French and Hong Kong universities as a teacher and writer. He is the author of ten novels and a volume of essays on writing and culture. His novels have won a number of state and national prizes including the Australian/Vogel literary award, The Age Fiction Prize, the National Book Council Prize for Fiction, four Victorian Premier's awards, two NSW Premier's awards and the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction. Castro was the 2014 recipient of the Patrick White Award for Literature.

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ISBN   9781862548343
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IMAGES   Greyscale illustrations
PAGE COUNT   208
DIMENSIONS   210 x 135 mm