PublishedHardie Grant, March 2021 |
ISBN9781743797686 |
FormatHardcover, 240 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.3cm |
The Furphy Literary Award, established in 1992, became a national competition for the first time in 2020. Over 800 writers - from the established and experienced to the fresh first-timers - took up the challenge to tackle its topic of 'Australian Life'.
This anthology features the sixteen short stories judged to be the best of the best in the competition. It includes well-known writers such as Cate Kennedy, Jenni Marazaki, Mira Robertson, Ruby Todd and Jean Flynn, and emerging writers, including Ya Reeves, Thomas MacAllister, Luke Martin and Sue Osborne. They've written about huge Murray cod and a dancing neighbour, naval tragedies and buck's night shenanigans, old bush tailors and beekeepers, a city rendezvous and catastrophic bushfires, an incident on a school bus and a Vietnam veteran who paints to find peace. And more.
