Australian fiction.
Just out, the new issue of of Review of Australian Fiction , no. 4 in the special volume edited by Laurie Steed, featuring writers from Western Australia.
The first of this issue’s two stories is by dual Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott, author of novels That Deadman Dance, Benang and True Country, and chair of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. Kim is paired with emerging writer Liz Hayden, currently a PhD creative writing candidate, whose work investigates the life of a Nyoongar woman’s experience living and growing up in a rural town in Western Australia
Kim Scott’s story, entitled ‘Departure’, introduces a vulnerable teenage girl, Tilly, on her way home from private boarding school to the southern camp that is her home:
Central Bus Station was built upon the principle of a large shed and, except for the large windows on one wall…
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