Tag Archives: short stories
Issue Two
Issue Two teaser: Samuel Rutter’s ‘Comfort Inn’
So, the final teaser for Issue Two before its release on July 1. Newcomer Samuel Rutter’s story, ‘Comfort Inn’, is a laconic account of glancing connections set in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s cold. He’s wearing a jacket – because you never put your jacket in your checked luggage … Read more
Podcast
“America is obsessed with its own failure”: Emmett Stinson
Emmett Stinson is an American who moved to Australia in 2004 – and it was only with distance from his homeland that he could write Known Unknowns, his debut collection. Podcast roadmap: Washington DC; corpses; Capgras syndrome; the best place to buy drugs in America; The Education … Read more
Books
Review: Robin Black’s If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This Robin Black Publisher: Scribe Publications (Australia and New Zealand) ISBN: 9781921640421 RRP: $32.95 The title of Robin Black’s debut short story collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, is an intriguing premise. What would she … Read more
Recommended Reading
Kalinda Ashton’s Recommended Reading
As a child, I was entranced by the Very Hungry Caterpillar and Where the Wild Things Are. I can actually remember learning to read and what a difficult and pointless process it seemed, spelling out all those bloody letters and trying to sound out words. The relief … Read more
Reviews
Possibility and powerlessness: Andrew Porter’s The Theory of Light and Matter [review]
Thanks to our friends at Text Publishing, we have two copies of Andrew Porter’s The Theory of Light and Matter to give away. Details will appear in our April newsletter, which you can join here. The Theory of Light and Matter Andrew Porter Text Publishing RRP: $27.95 … Read more
Interviews, Issue One
Nicola Redhouse: ‘Being a writer certainly enriches my work as an editor’
It’s often said that writing and editing are two sides of one coin, and it’s not unusual to find a person who incorporates both into a literary life. So it is with Nicola Redhouse – by day, an editor at Scribe Publications, and by night, a fiction … Read more
Interviews, Issue One
‘A form to call home’: Patrick Cullen’s short fiction
photo by Tim McLean Newcastle writer Patrick Cullen’s stories have been anthologised in those bastions of short fiction, Best Australian Stories and Sleepers Almanac, and his novel-in-stories, What Came Between, has been praised many times over. His short story about the friendship between Raymond Carver, Richard Ford and … Read more
Issue One
‘Finding Out’ by Kalinda Ashton [excerpt]
This week, Killings is running excerpts from Issue One of Kill Your Darlings. Today’s excerpt is from Kalinda Ashton’s deeply simmering ‘Finding Out’, a story about uncovering uncomfortable truths. ‘Write it down,’ Kelly used to say. ‘All of it.’ Or, at least, I think she did. After … Read more
