Speed date 1: Australian Love Stories First crush, slow burn or for better or worse? First crush? Easy. Bruce Pascoe’s ‘Dawn’. It’s a paean to a sleeping woman and the reader shares her lover’s gaze. Sensual. Silver-tongued. Seductive. Here’s an amuse bouche: ‘It is allowed that I may let a finger slide into the cup
Here’s the format: Three questions, three answers, move on. When it’s over, you decide which book of short stories you’re going to date. Your time starts now … Speed date 1: An Elegant Young Man What world are you from? I’m the kind of guy who walks around Liverpool in the south-western suburbs of Sydney
My story ‘Walk Beside Me’ has won the inaugural Lane Cove Literary Award (Short Story), presented to me at a packed ceremony in Lane Cove Library on October 29. Award judge Jeni Mawter said ‘Walk Beside Me’ wove all the essential elements of a great short story through its narrative in a beautiful way. The voice
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