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Charting surreal and yet familiar worlds where hope and horror co-exist, Monster is ruthless, weird, dark and funny. These 32 stories explore loss, addiction, love and breakdown with unsentimental economy. Stories concern mothers losing or leaving children, relationships dangling by a thread or exploding. Some characters are institutionalised, others are profoundly lonely. Some just wander around - lost, while others are filled with shocking violence. There is joy here, too, and a kind of blazing intimacy in this debut collection of tough, tender and unflinching stories. Ashleigh Synnott lives in Sydney. Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in publications such as Meanjin, Overland, t...
‘Of the many anthologies coming out of university writing programs, the annual UTS collection has always been the standout.’ Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Sydney Morning Herald The UTS Writers’ Anthology is an annual publication produced by the University of Technology, Sydney. Students from the undergraduate, postgraduate and research programs submit their work anonymously, and a student editorial committee selects and edits the Anthology over a period of four months. In 2014, from over 300 submissions, the committee selected 31 outstanding pieces. Over the years the Anthology has featured UTS alumni who have gone on to make names for themselves as authors. Gillian Mears, Bernard Cohen, Jil...
In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. ...
Welcome to this special anniversary edition of the UTS Writers’ Anthology, showcasing writers from four decades of its prestigious Creative Writing program, one of the oldest in Australia. Introduced by Miles Franklin Award winner, Melissa Lucashenko, this treasury of prose, poetry, scripts and non-fiction affords glimpses of the shifting social and political landscape, and evolving literary trends. Since its first edition, Pink Cakes (1982), the Anthology has fostered some of Australia’s finest new writing. This collection features some of the earliest work of its best-loved writers and emerging voices—Beth Yahp, Alison Whittaker, Toby Fitch, Gillian Mears, MTC Cronin, sydney khoo, Ve...
Un vent de révolution souffle au lycée ! Will et Harriet fréquentent le même lycée mais tout les sépare : la première défie l'autorité, la seconde brille par sa discipline et ses notes. Et pourtant, une heure de colle ensemble suffit à faire naître un duo détonant. Nom de code : Amelia Westlake. Leur mission : dénoncer toutes les injustices de leur lycée d'élite rétrograde. Et si elles faisaient enfin bouger les choses ? Et si elles trouvaient l'amour en chemin ? Roman pour ado.
In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google's Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world.
A list of the descendants of Pocahontas compiled by The Pocahontas Foundation.
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