Have a look at what the Writing NSW team has been reading over the last month: short stories, crime fiction, our own program manager’s debut, a black comedy, and poetic YA.

“Writing that doesn’t spell everything out, that trusts the reader to make sense of what’s not there but is gestured towards is, in my opinion, the most powerful form of writing, because it invites the reader to help co-create the story as they read.”

“I adore that the short story allows an incompleteness that is self-sufficient, a lightness that carries heft, an accessibility that is complex yet eloquent.” We spoke to award-winning author Eugen Bacon on the short story form.

“A short story happens when a writer sees the prospect of a moment, a pivot point, and consciously decides it’s the whole thing.” Nick Earls writes on the short story form.

What exactly is a short story? In one sense it is completely obvious – a story that is short – but defining it is something far more complicated than issues of length. The short story has always been at the core of everything I write from my collection of travel fictions, (Small Indiscretions: stories of […]

Barry Divola loves short stories so much that he wants you to write them. That’s why he’s running a course called Jumpstart, to get your creativity flowing and give your story writing a kick in the pants. The author of Nineteen Seventysomething (Affirm Press) recently won the Margaret River Short Story Competition with his story […]