We light lanterns in remembrance, to acknowledge the past and move forward, to keep the memory of someone who has passed away and to light the path through dark times.The UTS Writers’ Anthology introduces Light the Lanterns.Through short story, poetry, creative non-fiction and script, this collection offers works inspired by lived and imagined experiences of human trial and resilience. The anthology showcases emerging creative talent and features deeply human tales...

In its fortieth year the UTS Writers’ Anthology is Australia’s longest running student series and remains highly regarded among its writing community. Well recognised as a breeding ground for emerging talent it has published the early writing of authors including Gillian Mears Patti Miller Toby Fitch Alison Whittaker MTC Cronin Rachel Ward and Erica Harrison.‘[this book] offers its readers the timeless vital gift of slantwise truth-telling.’ Emily BittoThis year the writing...

‘Empty Sky’, which draws its title from Sylvia Plath’s ‘I talk to God but the sky is empty’, features the top emerging writers from UTS’ creative writing program and showcases a range of extraordinary works. This edition is honoured to be introduced by writer, editor and activist Bri Lee, the award-winning author of Eggshell Skull.The smoky sky is empty: a deficit of light and sound, devoid of sentience…or is it?Our world is tumultuous – from political upheaval to environme...

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...

In every life, there are seasons. Fires burn and rains fall, but after the blazes and storms, flowers bloom.A symbol of resilience and unity, the Australian wattle regenerates after the devastation of fire and deluge. Often propagated in turmoil, it blossoms bright and sturdy. For these reasons, it emblazons the cover of the 35th Writers’ Anthology: Bloom.Celebrating a diverse group of voices, Bloom welcomes a foreword by Zoë Norton Lodge, an acclaimed author, performer and...

When the waves get rough and sea levels rise, there’s only one thing to do: keep your head above water.Welcome to SOAK. Joining the proud legacy of the UTS Writers’ Anthology, this edition seeks to make sense of a rapidly changing world facing its latest deluge.From underwater waterslides to dogs in space, internal struggles to climbing mountains, this collection of short stories, creative non-fiction and poetry brings ecocentrism, humour, creativity and resilience to the s...

All the best stories are but one story in reality−the story of escape. It is the only thing whichinterests us all and at all times, how to escape.A.C. BensonEscapist literature is traditionally the domain of well-loved genres. In Escape,we aim to disturb expectations, and to delight. Turn the page and here isexperimentation, here fantasy. Here’s crime, existentialism and romance. Nowan escape artist, now an escapee...

Following on from Sticks and Stones, the May break your bones anthology is a collection of fifty powerful stories from all around the world. In under 1000 words, they have the power to transport you, to make you laugh, cry, and everything in between.AuthorsAbigail Williams, Adam Brannigan, Alison Wassell, Andy Kind, Anna Hopwood, Carey Camburn, C. Finity, Denise Bayes, Denny Jace, Donna L. Greenwood, Eleanor Luke, Emily Midgley, Emily Ives-Keeler, Felicity Lucas, Finley Hopm...

This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds. The authors are Patricia Grace, Albert Wendt, Alice Tawhai, Briar Grace-Smith, Paula Morris, Tina Makereti, James George, Renée, Jacqui McRae, Eru Hart, Helen Waaka, Toni Pivac, K-t Harrison, Anya Ngaw...

Something Special, Something Rare presents outstanding short fiction by Australia’s finest female writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary.A sleepy town is gripped by delusory grief after the movie being filmed there wraps and leaves. A lingering heartbreak is replayed on Facebook. An ordinary family walks a shaky line between hopelessness and redemption.Brilliant, shocking and profound, these tales will leave...

The ultimate book about growing up in Australia – a choice selection of wonderful stories and recollectionsThis special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.’s definitive ‘Growing Up’ series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways.Growing Up in Australia

emerge 22 brings together ninety writers from Canada and beyond, who journey in fiction, speculative fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, investigating belonging, joy, fear, and fascination along the way. The work in this anthology is both deeply human and unflinchingly unexpected. In it, the body becomes a repository of stories, silence is a form of air pollution, and people turn into strawberries.Join us to paint redwood trees in the Yukon, organize a Muslim funeral in Toronto, and ...