Anthology 2026 is a selection of written works, fiction and non-fiction, poetry, prose, short-stories, as presented to Bayside Writers' Group over the course of 2026. This work is meant as a footprint for the various writers who participated and is a fair representation of all the members of this group.

"A way to live" is a black comedy about revenge when there's nothing more to lose**. "Where there's a Will"** is a film about a struggling country jazz band that receives a helping hand from long dead musicians. "The third player" tells the tale of an Australian country football team which discovers a novel way to improve their performance.

Reuben is your archetypal nerd - life is nothing more than work and online computer chess games. He has no friends, least of all girlfriends. The daily grind for him involves analyzing body parts in the DA's office at the Chicago Cook County Morgue. When he unexpectedly discovers he has a most unusual psychic gift, his life takes a new, exciting and dangerous direction. The machinations of the DA's office and the criminal underworld they are dealing with will involve you in a tense journey...

This story is dedicated to Mark Robinson for his determination as a young boy growing up in the 1980's to never stop giving up on his dreams despite all the setbacks to finally meet his idols after owning the famous radio station numberplates FM1019. As a young boy growing up in the 1980's on the Mornington Peninsula he lived with his parents and other siblings in a small house in Tootgarook. His Mum and Dad worked very hard to feed the family and bring home the bare essentials each week l...

This is the author's memoir of her parents' life, based on letters, old photos, anecdotes, with an extra dollop of fictional interpretation. This is a journey taking us from pre-war England to present-day Australia. One parent in theatre and the other in music, made for turbulent times. The author speculates on how her parents' lives ultimately affect her own life choices.

Anthology 2025 is a selection of written works, fiction and non-fiction, poetry, prose, short-stories, as presented to Bayside Writers' Group over the course of 2025. This work is meant as a footprint for the various writers who participated and is a fair representation of all the members of this group.

This year's regular anthology of poetry from The Bayside Writers' Group. As, in the past, each edition is widely read by the general public as well as having extensive coverage on national radio programmes.

A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who took part in the struggle against Mussolini’s Fascist Republic. Since its publication in Italy, Claudio Pavone’s masterwork has become indispensable to anyone seeking to understand this period and its continuing importance for the nation’s identity.Pavone casts a sober eye on his protagonists’ ethical and ideological motivations. He uncovers a multilayered conflict, in which class anta...

'The Fringe, Poetry Cafe' is an anthology from poets based in the North West of England. Some of this work has appeared in poetry pamphlets distributed in pubs, cafes, libraries, shops, buses and trains. In fact, anywhere the public may have time to read some interesting pieces of writing. There are many prize winning poems here. The pamphlets and ebooks are published by SeaQuake Books. The idea behind the initiative is to bring poetry to a wider audience. The poets included in this partic...

Dear Room is a worthy successor to Billy's Rain (1999), whose preoccupations and occasions it continues and ramifies, charting the 'angles, signals, orders, murmurs, sighs' of love, separation and loss. With grave good humour, ruefully exact timing and a scruple reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, these poems register the goodbye look of things, and ponder the difference between a good memory and an inability to forget. By turns candid, caustic and drastically self-accusing, the...

Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers.One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and cannulae puncturing his body, as he recovers from the heart attack threatening daily to kill him.While lying in the hospital bed, Robert chances upon Philip L...

Paul Tremblay, Ramsey Campbell, and other modern masters of horror explore just how scary it is to be alone in this horror anthology featuring 20 horror short stories.Lost in the wilderness, or alone in the dark, isolation remains one of our deepest held fears. This horror anthology from Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award finalist Dan Coxon calls on leading horror writers to confront the dark moments, the challenges that we must face alone: survivors in a wo...