The Best Australian Stories 2010 (39 page)

Overland

Publication Details

Antonia Baldo
's ‘Get Well Soon' was first published in
Island
, issue 117, Winter 2009.

Sherryl Clark
's ‘The Other Side of the World' was first published in
Griffith Review 26: Stories for Today
, Text Publishing, November 2009.

Louise D'Arcy
's ‘The Wife and the Child' was first published in
The Sleepers Almanac No. 6
, Sleepers Publishing, Melbourne, 2010.

Robert Drewe
's ‘Paleface and the Panther' was first published in
Brothers and Sisters
, edited by Charlotte Wood, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2009. Reprinted by permission.

David Francis
's ‘Once Removed' was first published in
Harvard
Review
, issue 38, Spring/Summer 2010.

Karen Hitchcock
's ‘Little White Slip' was first published in
Little
White Slips
, Picador, Sydney, 2009. Reprinted by permission of Pan MacMillan Australia Pty Ltd.

John Kinsella
's ‘Bats' was published in
Agni Online
in November 2010.

Anna Krien
's ‘Still Here' was first published in
Griffith Review 28: Still the Lucky Country?
, Text Publishing, May 2010.

Mike Ladd
's ‘A Neighbour's Photo' was first published in the
Adelaide Review
, issue 360, February 2010.

Nam Le
's ‘The Yarra' was first published in
Brothers and Sisters
, edited by Charlotte Wood, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2009. Reprinted by permission.

Joshua Lobb
's ‘I Forgot My Programme So I Went to Get It Back' was first published in
The Bridport Prize 2009: Poetry and
Short Stories
, edited by Jackie Kay and Ali Smith, Redcliffe Press, Bristol, 2009.

Michael McGirr
's ‘The Great Philosophers' was first published in
Readings and Writings: Forty Years of Books
, edited by Jason Cotter and Michael Williams, Readings, Melbourne, 2009.

Suvi Mahonen
's ‘Bobby' was first published in
Island
, issue 118, Spring 2009. It has since been reprinted in
Shalla Magazine
(USA) and in
All Rights Reserved
(Canada). It was the winner of the 2009 Laura Literary Awards, Open Section.

Ryan O'Neill
's ‘The Eunuch in the Harem' was first published in
Harvest
, issue 5, Winter 2010.

Paddy O'Reilly
's ‘Salesman' was first published in
Griffith Review
29: Prosper or Perish
, Text Publishing, August 2010.

A.S. Patric
's ‘Beckett & Son' was first published in
Overland 199
, Winter 2010.

Joanne Riccioni
's ‘Can't Take the Country Out of the Boy' was first published in the
Age
, 9 January 2010.

Josephine Rowe
's ‘Brisbane' was first published in
Small Room
, issue 1, November 2009.

Michael Sala
's ‘Outside' was first published in
Harvest
, issue 4, Summer 2009–2010.

Cory Taylor
's ‘Wildlife' was first published in
One Book Many
Brisbanes 5
, Brisbane City Council, 2010.

Chris Womersley
's ‘The Age of Terror' was first published in
Readings and Writings: Forty Years of Books,
edited by Jason Cotter and Michael Williams, Readings, Melbourne, 2009.

Notes on Contributors

T
HE
E
DITOR:

Cate Kennedy
is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection
Dark Roots
and the novel
The World Beneath
(both published by Scribe), as well as poetry collections and a travel memoir. Her work has appeared in many publications and anthologies, including
The Best Australian Stories
, the
Harvard Review
and the
New Yorker
. She works as a mentor, editor and judge when not at work on her own writing. She lives in north-east Victoria.

T
HE
A
UTHORS:

Antonia Baldo
is a writer of screenplays and fiction. Her short stories have appeared in
Southerly, Ulitarra, Island
and
New Writer
(UK). She is working on her first novel.

Stephanie Buckle
lives in Canberra, where she works as a counsellor. Her writing has won numerous awards and several of her short stories have appeared in the literary journal
Island
. She has written two novels and is currently working on a third.

Sherryl Clark
's poetry and short fiction have appeared in many Australian magazines and journals. She has published over forty children's and young-adult books and two collections of poetry. She teaches in the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at Victoria University TAFE, and is a co-editor of
Poetrix
magazine. (
www.sherrylclark.com
)

Louise D'Arcy
is a writer from Yackandandah in north-east Victoria. She has had more than thirty stories published in magazines and anthologies including
The Sleepers Almanac
,
Overland
and
Imago
. She won the
Age
Short Story Competition in 2010.

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.

Gillian Essex
has been a teacher, a principal, an educational consultant, an author and a bureaucrat. She now freelances as a writer and editor and teaches corporate writing at the Centre for Adult Education. She is also working on a novel and two non-fiction books. ‘One of the Girls' won the local section of the 2010 Alan Marshall Short Story Award.

David Francis
is the author of two novels,
Agapanthus Tango
(published in the USA as
The Great Inland Sea
) and
Stray Dog Winter
.
Stray Dog Winter
was named Australian Novel of the Year in the
Australian Literary Review
, and won the 2010 American Library Association Award for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in the
Harvard Review
, the
Sydney Morning Herald
, the
Age
,
Wet Ink
and elsewhere
.
David currently lives in Los Angeles but spends part of each year on his family's farm in West Gippsland, Victoria.

Tim Herbert
is the author of
Angel Tails
and co-editor of the collection
Love Cries
. His work has appeared in
The Oxford Australian
Love Stories
,
The Best Australian Essays 2005
and most recently at
gay-ebooks.com.au
in the anthology
Catching On.

Karen Hitchcock
is a writer and doctor. Her collection of short stories,
Little White Slips,
won the 2010 Queensland Premier's Steele-Rudd Award and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and the Dobbie Award for women writers. Her first novel,
Read My Lips
, will be published by Picador in 2012.

David Kelly
studies and teaches creative writing at the University of Newcastle. His first novel,
Fantastic Street
, was published by Picador in 2003.

John Kinsella
's most recent volume of poetry is
Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography
(UQP, 2008). His
Activist
Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley
(ed. Lucy Niall) was recently published by the University of Liverpool Press. He has just completed a new collection of stories.

Anna Krien
is a writer of journalism, essays, fiction and poetry. She has been published in the
Big Issue,
the
Monthly,
the
Age,
The Best Australian Essays 2005
and
2006, The Best Australian
Stories 2008, The Best Australian Poems 2010
,
Griffith Review, Going
Down Swinging, COLORS
and
frankie
magazine. Her poem ‘The Last Broadcasters' won the 2008 Val Vallis Poetry Award. Her first book,
Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests
, was published by Black Inc. in 2010.

Mike Ladd
lives and writes in Adelaide. He presents
Poetica
each week on ABC Radio National. His most recent book of poems is
Transit
, published by Five Islands Press. His stories have appeared in
Famous Reporter, Island
and the
Adelaide Review.

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. (
www.namleonline.com
)

Joshua Lobb
's writing has primarily been for the theatre. Between 2003 and 2007 he was writer-in-residence for State of Play Theatre Company. This produced the plays
Still at Aulis
and
Wilde Tales
, which was selected as part of the Belvoir B Sharp season in 2004 and toured New South Wales in 2007. Joshua is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wollongong.

Fiona McFarlane
was born in Sydney. Her work has been published in
Southerly
,
Zoetrope: All-Story
and the
Missouri Review
, and she has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Phillips Exeter Academy. Fiona is currently a student at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.

Michael McGirr
is the author of three books of non-fiction:
The
Lost Art of Sleep
,
Bypass: The Story of a Road
and
Things You Get for
Free,
all published by Picador. His short fiction has appeared in numerous periodicals, books and anthologies, both in Australia and overseas. He was formerly the fiction editor of
Meanjin
and publisher of
Eureka Street
. He teaches at St Kevin's College in Melbourne, where he lives with his wife and their three children.

Suvi Mahonen
is completing a Master of Arts in writing and literature at Deakin University. She has previously been employed as a journalist in Australia and Canada but her focus is now on fiction. She has published short stories in various literary magazines in Australia and overseas and is currently concentrating on a longer work.

David Mence
is a writer, director and dramaturge. As artistic director of White Whale Theatre his credits include
Macbeth Re-
Arisen
,
Convict 002
,
Melburnalia, Melburnalia No. 2
,
Othello
(Bell Shakespeare) and
Blackbird
(MTC). David has been a creative fellow at the State Library of Victoria and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne.

Meg Mundell
was born in New Zealand and lives in Melbourne. She has published journalism in the
Age
, the
Monthly,
the
Big Issue
and the
Sydney Morning Herald
, and creative writing in
Meanjin,
The Sleepers Almanac, Harvest
and
New Australian Stories
. She is now working on a PhD about sense of place in literature. Her first novel,
Black Glass
, will be published in March 2011 by Scribe.

Ryan O'Neill
's work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His short-story collections
Six Tenses
and
A Famine in
Newcastle
are published by Ginninderra Press. The latter was short-listed 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.

Alec (A.S.) Patric
writes in Melbourne and is a St Kilda bookseller. His
Music for Broken Instruments
was recently published by Black Rider Press. He was shortlisted in the Lord Mayor's Awards, and his poetry and prose have appeared in literary journals such as
Going Down Swinging
,
Wet Ink
,
Etchings
,
Quadrant
,
Blue Dog
and
Overland
.

Joanne Riccioni
's stories have won the Yeovil Prize (UK), the Banjo Paterson Award, the Wells Prize (UK), the Katherine Susannah Pritchard Award and the E.J. Brady Award, and have been published in
Stylus
,
Taralla
,
Westerly
, the
Momaya Review
and the anthology
Her Story
(ed. Indi Zeleny, Adams Media, USA). ‘Can't Take the Country Out of the Boy' received second prize in the
Age
Short Story Competition in 2010. Joanne lives in Sydney and is working on a collection of short stories.

Josephine Rowe
's poetry and short fiction have been widely published and broadcast. She is the poetry editor for the independent literary magazine
Harvest
, and her collection of short stories,
How a Moth Becomes a Boat
, was published earlier this year by Hunter Publishers. (
www.josephinerowe.com
)