Where There's Smoke (28 page)

PUBLICATION DETAILS

M
URRAY
B
AIL'S
‘Camouflage' appeared in
The Best Australian Stories 2001
and
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection
, and as the title story in his collection
Camouflage.

T
ONY
B
IRCH'S
‘China' appeared in
Island 133
and
The Best Australian Stories 2013
.

J
AMES
B
RADLEY'S
‘The Inconvenient Dead' appeared in
Overland 206
and
The Best Australian Stories 2012
.

J.M. C
OETZEE'S
‘As a Woman Grows Older' appeared in the
New York Review of Books
and
The Best Australian Stories 2004
.

P
ATRICK
C
ULLEN'S
‘Mauve' first appeared in
The Best Australian Stories 2005
and this revised version was published in his collection
What Came Between
.

L
IAM
D
AVISON'S
‘Sandtrap' appeared in
The Best Australian Stories 2003
.

P
ETER
G
OLDSWORTHY'S
‘Shooting the Dog' appeared in
The Best Australian Stories 2006
,
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection
, and his collection
Gravel.

R
ODNEY
H
ALL'S
‘Silence 1945' appeared in
The Best Australian Stories 2011.

P
ATRICK
H
OLLAND'S
‘Flamebugs on the Sixth Island' appeared in the
Griffith Review
and
The Best Australian Stories 2006.

N
AM
L
E'S
‘The Yarra' was excerpted in
The Age
and
Ventiquattro Magazine
, and appeared in
Asia Literary Review 13
,
Brothers and Sisters
and
The Best Australian Stories 2010
.

S
HANE
M
ALONEY'S
‘I See Red' appeared in the
Big Issue
and
The Best Australian Stories 2007.

D
AVID
M
ALOUF'S
‘Mrs Porter and the Rock' appeared in
Every Move You Make
and
The Best Australian Stories 2007.

A
LEX
M
ILLER'S
‘Ringroad' appeared in
The Best Australian Stories 2012.

F
RANK
M
OORHOUSE'S
‘I So Do Not Want to Be Having This Conversation' appeared in
The Best Australian Stories 2006.

R
YAN
O'N
EILL'S
‘July the Firsts' appeared in
Westerly
and
The Best Australian Stories 2007.

A.S. P
ATRIC'S
‘Guns 'N Coffee' appeared in
fourW twenty-two
,
Las Vegas for Vegans
and
The Best Australian Stories 2012.

D.B.C. P
IERRE'S
‘Suddenly Doctor Cox' appeared in
Ox-Tales: Air
and
The Best Australian Stories 2009
.

K
IM
S
COTT'S
‘A Refreshing Sleep' appeared in
Westerly
and
The Best Australian Stories 2009.

T
IM
W
INTON'S
‘Aquifer' appeared in
Granta
and
The Best Australian Stories 2001
and
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection.

C
HRIS
W
OMERSLEY'S
‘Where There's Smoke' appeared in the
Big Issue
and
The Best Australian Stories 2011.

CONTRIBUTORS

M
URRAY
B
AIL
's novels include
Eucalyptus
(which won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1999),
The Pages
and
The Voyage
.

T
ONY
B
IRCH'S
books include
Shadowboxing
(2006),
Father's Day
(2009),
Blood
(2011), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin literary award, and
The Promise
(2014). His new novel,
Ghost River
, will be published in October 2015. He is currently the the inaugural Bruce McGuinness Research Fellow within the Moondani Balluk Centre at Victoria University.

J
AMES
B
RADLEY
is a novelist and critic. His books include four novels,
Clade
,
Wrack
,
The Deep Field
and
The Resurrectionist
; a book of poetry,
Paper Nautilus
; and
The Penguin Book of the Ocean
. He writes and reviews for a wide range of newspapers and magazines in Australia and internationally, and blogs at
cityoftongues.com
.

J.M. C
OETZEE
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes the novels
Life & Times of Michael K
and
Disgrace
, both of which won the Booker Prize
.
His most recent novel is
The Childhood of Jesus
. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and is now a resident of Australia.

P
ATRICK
C
ULLEN'S
short stories have appeared in many anthologies and have 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.

L
IAM
D
AVISON
published four novels:
The Velodrome
,
Soundings
,
The White Woman
and
The Betrayal
, as well as two collections of short stories. His work was shortlisted for numerous major literary prizes and he won the National Book Council's Banjo Award for
Soundings
.

P
ETER
G
OLDSWORTHY'S
short-story collections include
Little Deaths
(short-listed for the Christina Stead Award), and
Gravel
(shortlisted for the ASL Gold Medal). A
Collected Stories
was published in 2006. His much-anthologised story ‘The Kiss' is also available in a separate Penguin Specials edition; Ashlee Page's film adaptation of it won numerous awards, including both the Dendy and AFI awards for best short feature.

R
ODNEY
H
ALL
has twice won both the Miles Franklin Award, for
Just Relations
and
The Grisly Wife
, and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, for
The Second Bridegroom
and
The Day We Had Hitler Home
. His most recent book,
Silence
, was published in 2011.

P
ATRICK
H
OLLAND
lives between Brisbane, Saigon and Beijing. His stories have been published and broadcast in Australia, the UK, Ireland, Japan, Canada, the USA and Italy. His novels include
The Darkest Little Room
, a thriller set in Saigon, and
The Mary Smokes Boys
, which was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year. His most recent novel is
Navigatio
.

N
AM
L
E
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 currently divides his time between Melbourne and overseas.

D
AVID
M
ALOUF
is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. In 1996, his novel
Remembering Babylon
was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His 1998 Boyer Lectures were published as
A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness
. His most recent novel is
Ransom
.

S
HANE
M
ALONEY
is one of Australia's most popular novelists and a winner of the Ned Kelly Prize for Crime Fiction.

A
LEX
M
ILLER
has twice been awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for
The Ancestor Game
and
Journey to the Stone Country
. He has also won the Age Book of the Year Award, for
Lovesong
, and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, for
Coal Creek
. He has been an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and in 2012 he was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature.

F
RANK
M
OORHOUSE
has won a number of literary prizes across his career, including the Australian LIterature Society's Gold Medal 1989. His novel
Dark Palace
won the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Age Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel is
Cold Light
.

R
YAN
O'N
EILL
is a short story writer. His latest collection is
The Weight of a Human Heart
.

A.S. P
ATRIC
is an award-winning author featured in
Best Australian Stories 2010
and
2012
. His story collection,
Las Vegas for Vegans
, was shortlisted in the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards for the Steele Rudd Award. He is also the author
The Rattler & Other Stories,
and the novella,
Bruno Kramzer
. His debut novel
Black Rock White City
was published in 2015 to wide critical acclaim.

D.B.C. P
IERRE
has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in Ireland. His first novel,
Vernon God Little
, won the Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the Man Booker Prize. His most recent novel is
Breakfast with the Borgias
.

K
IM
S
COTT
was the first Indigenous author to win the Miles Franklin Award, for
Benang
. His most recent novel,
That Deadman Dance
, won the 2011 Miles Franklin Award, the South-East Asia and Pacific Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the ALS Gold Medal, the Victorian Premier's prizes for Literature and Fiction and the 2010 Western Australian Premier's Award for Fiction.

T
IM
W
INTON
has won the Miles Franklin Award three times, for
Shallows
,
Cloudstreet
and
Dirt Music
. His other awards include the Banjo Prize, the Western Australian Premier's Prize, the DEO Gloria Award (UK) and the Christina Stead Award. His most recent novel is
Eyrie
.

C
HRIS
W
OMERSLEY
is the author of three novels,
The Low Road
,
Bereft
and
Cairo
. In addition, his short fiction has been published in numerous journals, including
Granta
,
Meanjin
, the
Griffith Review
and
Best Australian Stories
2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012.