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At April’s First Friday Club Delia Falconer and Bronwyn Mehan joined us to discuss anthologies and their place in Australian literature. Delia Falconer is the author of two acclaimed novels and the editor of a number of anthologies, including the Penguin Book of the Road and Best Australian Stories 2008/2009. She also heads the student-run Writers’ Anthology at the University of Technology, Sydney. Bronwyn Mehan is the editor of Spineless Wonders,

Bronwyn Mehan runs Spineless Wonders, a publishing company devoted to producing quality short Australian stories in print, digital and audio forms. Here, she talks about the perks and pitfalls of literature in its more unusual forms.  In general, short stories are neither as lucrative nor as popular as the novel form. Why do you think […]