The Best Australian Stories (66 page)

Sonya Hartnett
's ‘Any Dog' appeared in
The Best Australian Stories
2003
.

Karen Hitchcock
's ‘In Formation' appeared in her collection
Little
White Slips
(Picador, Sydney, 2009) and in
The Best Australian Stories
2009.

Eva Hornung
's ‘Fox Unpopuli' appeared in the
Bulletin
on 20 December 2005 and in
The Best Australian Stories 2006
.

Janette Turner Hospital
's ‘Hurricane Season' appeared in
The Best
Australian Stories 2003
and in the
Independent
's
Sunday Arts Magazine
, 25 January 2004.

Dorothy Johnston
's ‘Two Wrecks' appeared in
Heat 14: Cartoon Ducks
(Giramondo Publishing, Sydney, 2007) and in
The Best Australian
Stories 2008
.

Cate Kennedy
's ‘Cold Snap' appeared as ‘Black Ice' in the
New Yorker
on 11 September 2006, in
The Best Australian Stories 2006
and in her collection
Dark Roots
(Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2006).

Anna Krien
's ‘Still Here' appeared in
Griffith Review 28: Still the Lucky
Country
and in
The Best Australian Stories 2010
.

Nam Le
's ‘Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice' appeared in
Overland 187
, in
The Best Australian Stories
2007
and in his collection
The Boat
(Hamish Hamilton, Sydney, 2008).

Amanda Lohrey
's ‘Reading
Madame Bovary
' appeared in
The Best
Australian Stories 2002
and in
Reading Madame Bovary
(Black Inc., Melbourne, 2010).

Joan London
's ‘The New Dark Age' appeared in
The Best Australian
Stories 2002
and in
The New Dark Age
(Random House, Sydney, 2010).

Campbell Mattinson
's ‘Onionskinny' appeared in
The Best Australian
Stories 2003
.

Gillian Mears
' ‘La Moustiquaire' appeared in
The Best Australian
Stories 2001
. It became ‘Le Moustiquaire' in her collection
A Map of
the Gardens
(Picador, Sydney, 2002).

Michael Meehan
's ‘Repossession' appeared in
Meanjin
2/2007 and in
The Best Australian Stories 2007.

Frank Moorhouse
's ‘Lorraine Bracco' appeared in
The Best Australian
Stories 2007.

Gerald Murnane
's ‘The Boy's Name Was David' appeared in
The Best
Australian Stories 2002
. It will be included in his new collection,
A
History of Books
, to be published by Giramondo Publishing. Reprinted with permission from Golvan Arts Management.

Ryan O'Neill
's ‘The Eunuch in the Harem' appeared in
The Best
Australian Stories 2010
.

Paddy O'Reilly
's ‘Speak to Me' appeared in
The Best Australian Stories
2007
and in her collection
The End of the World
(University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2007).

Tim Richards
' ‘The Enemies of Happiness' appeared in
Meanjin
3/2002 and in
The Best Australian Stories 2002
. It will feature in his new collection,
Thought Crimes
, to be published by Black Inc. in 2011.

Mandy Sayer
's ‘The Meaning of Life' appeared in
Heat 19: Trappers
Way
(Giramondo Publishing, Sydney, 2009) and in
The Best Australian
Stories 2009
.

Nicholas Shakespeare
's ‘The White Hole of Bombay' appeared in
Granta 100
and in
The Best Australian Stories 2008
.

Chloe Walker
's ‘Escargot Postel' appeared in
The Sleepers Almanac No. 4
(Sleepers Publishing, Melbourne, 2008) and in
The Best Australian
Stories 2008
.

Tara June Winch
's ‘Cloud Busting' appeared in
The Best Australian
Stories 2005
.

Tim Winton
's ‘Aquifer' appeared in
The Best Australian Stories 2001
and in
The Turning
(Picador, Melbourne, 2004).

Notes on Contributors

Steven Amsterdam
is a writer and palliative care nurse in Melbourne. His debut
Things We Didn't See Coming
was the
Age
Book of the Year and was longlisted for the
Guardian
's First Book Award. His next book will be published by Sleepers in 2011.

Jessica Anderson
(1916–2010) was the author of seven novels and two collections of short stories. She won the Miles Franklin Award twice, in 1978 for
Tirra Lirra by the River
and in 1980 for
The Impersonators
. She died in Sydney in 2010.

Murray Bail
's novels include
Eucalyptus
and
The Pages
.

Emily Ballou
is a poet, novelist and screenwriter. Her verse portrait of Charles Darwin,
The Darwin Poems
, was awarded the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize in 2009 and shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Prize and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She has published two novels,
Father Lands
and
Aphelion
.

Tom Cho
is an artist and the author of
Look Who's Morphing
, a collection of stories published by Giramondo in 2009. He is working on a second book,
The Meaning of Life and Other Fictions
.

Patrick Cullen
's short stories have appeared in many anthologies and been broadcast on ABC Radio National. He lives in Newcastle with his wife and two children. His first book,
What Came Between
, was published in 2009.

Luke Davies
is the author of three novels
, Isabelle the Navigator
,
Candy
and
God of Speed
. A film version of
Candy
was released in 2006 and won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He has also published five books of poetry and was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Poetry in 2004.

Liam Davison
has published four novels:
The Velodrome, Soundings, The
White Woman
and
The Betrayal,
as well as two collections of short stories
.
He has been shortlisted for numerous major literary prizes and won the National Book Council's Banjo Award for
Soundings
.

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. He edited
The Best Australian
Stories 2006
and
2007
.

Will Elliott
's debut novel,
The Pilo Family Circus
, won five national literary awards and was shortlisted for the International Horror Guild Award. His second book,
Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness
, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2010. He is presently completing a fantasy trilogy,
The Pendulum Trilogy
. He lives in Brisbane.

Delia Falconer
is the author of two novels,
The Service of Clouds
(short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award) and
The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers
. She edited
The Best Australian Stories 2008
and
2009
and
The Penguin
Book of the Road
. An acclaimed essayist, short-story writer and critic, she holds a PhD in English literature and cultural studies from the University of Melbourne.

Peter Goldsworthy
has won literary awards across a range of genres and has twice been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award: in 1990 for
Maestro
, and in 2003 for
Three Dog Night
, which also won the Christina Stead Award and was longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Prize. His most recent novel
, Everything I Knew
, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Fiction Prize. A new collection of short stories
,
Gravel
, was published in 2010.

Kate Grenville
's novels include
Lilian's Story
(winner of the
Australian
/ Vogel Prize),
Dark Places, Joan Makes History
,
The Idea of Perfection
(winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction),
The Secret River
(winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the NSW Premier's Literary Award) and
The Lieutenant
.

Marion Halligan
is the author of some twenty books, including
The
Fog Garden, The Point, The Taste of Memory, The Apricot Colonel
and
Valley of Grace
. She lives in Canberra.

Sonya Hartnett
is the author of many novels for children and adults, including
The Silver Donkey
and
Of a Boy.
She lives in Melbourne.

Karen Hitchcock
's debut collection of short stories,
Little White Slips
, was published in 2009. She is a medical registrar at the John Hunter Hospital and a lecturer in medicine at the University of Newcastle, and has a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Newcastle.

Eva Hornung
's novels include
Hiam
(winner of the
Australian
/Vogel Literary Award and the Nita May Dobbie Award),
The City of Sealines,
Mahjar
(winner of the Steele Rudd Award),
Fire Fire
and
The Marsh
Birds
. Her most recent novel,
Dogboy
, won the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction.

Janette Turner Hospital
's novels include
The Ivory Swing
,
The Last
Magician
(a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year),
Oyster
(short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award),
Due Preparations for the Plague
(winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award) and
Orpheus
Lost
. She holds an endowed chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

Two of
Dorothy Johnston
's eight novels –
One for the Master
and
Ruth
– have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. She is also the author of crime novels including
The Trojan Dog
, which was joint winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award and Highly Commended for the Davitt Award.

Cate Kennedy
is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection
Dark Roots
and the novel
The World Beneath
, as well as poetry collections and a travel memoir. Her work has appeared in many publications and anthologies, including the
Harvard Review
and the
New Yorker
. She edited
The Best Australian Stories 2010
.

Anna Krien
's work has appeared in the
Monthly
, the
Age
, the
Big Issue
,
Griffith Review
,
Voiceworks
,
Going Down Swinging
,
Colors
,
frankie
and
Dazed & Confused.
Her first book,
Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's
Forests
, was published in 2010.

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.

Amanda Lohrey
was born in Tasmania, where she lives today. She is the author of five novels:
The Morality of Gentlemen, The Reading Group
,
Camille's Bread
(winner of the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal and a Victorian Premier's Literary Award),
The Philosopher's Doll
and
Vertigo
, as well as a collection of short stories,
Reading Madame
Bovary
. She has also written two
Quarterly Essays
, ‘Groundswell' and ‘Voting for Jesus'.

Joan London
is the author of two prize-winning collections of stories,
Sister Ships
and
Letter to Constantine
(published together by Picador as
The New Dark Age
). Her first novel,
Gilgamesh
, was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, named the
Age
Fiction Book of the Year, and longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Dublin Impac Award. Her second,
The Good Parents
, won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

Campbell Mattinson
won the Best Australian Sports Writing Award in 1996 and has twice won Australia's Wine Communicator Award. He is the author of
The Wine Hunter
,
The Big Red Wine Book
, and
Thick
Skins
(USA). He is the publisher of
www.winefront.com.au
and is currently working on a book of fiction.

Gillian Mears
' books include
The Mint Lawn
(winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize) and
Fineflour
. Allen and Unwin will publish her new novel,
Foal's Bread
, in 2011.

Michael Meehan
's novels have been published in Australia, the UK and the US. His first novel,
The Salt of Broken Tears
, won the New South Wales Premier's Award for Fiction in 2000. He is also the author of
Stormy Weather
,
Deception
and, most recently,
Below the Styx
. He is professor of communication and creative arts at Deakin University in Melbourne.