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23.01.2022 Cate Kennedy closes out the festival with a Christmas Carol for writers, about what to say when your aunt Norma asks you, yet again, why you're still writing if you're making no money from it. Thanks to @zbradley_ for the video! #ASSF2019

22.01.2022 Great to see four short story collections reviewed in The Age/SMH. You might meet some of the writers at The Australian Short Story Festival in Adelaide in October. You never know...

21.01.2022 Our final session for the weekend - Cate Kennedy and Robbie Egan. #ASSF2019

19.01.2022 Voices of Women is a not for profit organisation that showcases new work by Australian women through collaboration with writers and artists across Australia. It... brings together literature, performance art and the writing and acting community. Each year this begins with a writing competition open to all Australian women writers and develops into a performance piece in immersed and unusual audience spaces. The events often also include exhibitions of women visual artists. In 2020 they will present CLEARWAY, and writers have until February 2 to submit their work. Get to it! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/voices-of-women-annual-comp

19.01.2022 Just a two more days to go until #ASS2019, Short Story Fans! Have you got your tickets? https://australianshortstoryfestival.com/tickets/ Today's Author Showcase is Nicola Redhouse! Nicola is the author of Unlike the Heart: a memoir of brain and mind (UQP). She has had short stories published in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Best Australian Stories 2014 and 2015, the Big Issue Fiction Special, and performed at the Slow Canoe Live Journal. She teaches the Short Story course in... RMIT’s creative writing department sessionally, and has been a co-judge for the Big Issue Fiction Special. She has worked as a book editor for publishers big and small since 2005. Welcome, Nicola! #amwriting #shortstories

18.01.2022 For those who haven’t already submitted to the short story competition, you have until 31 July 2020, so just get in there.

18.01.2022 Headliner Arnold Zable kicks off our afternoon sessions with Megan O'Brien

17.01.2022 James Ley, Julian Novitz, Gay Lynch and Wayne Macauley #ASSF2019

16.01.2022 This looks like wonderful opportunity for short story writers.

16.01.2022 #ASSF2019 starts tomorrow and it's your last chance to get your hands on the hottest tickets in town! Next up on our author showcase is Zarah Butcher-McGuinnigle. Zarah is a writer from Auckland, New Zealand, and currently lives in Melbourne. She is the author of Autobiography of a Marguerite (Hue & Cry Press, 2014).... Her work has appeared in publications such as Fanzine, Best NZ Poems, and The Suburban Review. Welcome, Zarah!

15.01.2022 The Short Story Festival kicked off last night with a lovely party that had Tony Birch as a special guest speaker. Can’t wait for two full days of readings and discussions of the short form.

15.01.2022 It’s that time of year again. Get ready to write and send your best work for a chance to come to Adelaide to attend the Australian Short Story Festival in October 2020.

14.01.2022 We are super excited to announce that next year's Australian Short Story Festival will take place in Adelaide 16-18 October 2020. Keep the dates! More info will follow as plans progress. Looking forward to seeing you then.

12.01.2022 Hey Short Story fans, #ASSF2019 kicks off TOMORROW! Have you got your tickets yet? www.australianshortstoryfestival.com/tickets Finally, Jack Kirne is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in various publications including the Meanjin blog, Subbed In and the anthology Growing up Queer in Australia. He is currently undertaking a PhD at Deakin University. Please make him very welcome to our stage. Hi, Jack!... #shortStory #amwriting

11.01.2022 Day 1 of The Australian Short Story Festival was inspiring and thought-provoking with many established and emerging writers reading their work and discussing craft. We are so proud that MidnightSun is an integral part of this excellent festival.

09.01.2022 I'm the chairperson of the Board of the Australian Short Story Festival. Please be aware that The Australian Short Story Festival will going virtual in October 2020, due to the uncertainties of the Covid-19 virus. Festival organisers will update all you short story lovers in the coming months on the events we intend to hold online. The ASSF will resume face-to-face in October 2021 in Adelaide, with another exciting program.

07.01.2022 Shh! ASSF2019 is starting!

06.01.2022 #ASSF2019 kicks off today! We'll be tweeting from our launch party tonight but we hope to see you there in person. See our website to check out the program and book tickets: www.australianshortstoryfestival.com Mark Smith lives on Victoria’s Surf Coast. His debut novel, The Road To Winter, was published in 2016. The sequel, Wilder Country, won the 2018 Australian Indie Book Award for YA. The third book in the trilogy, Land Of Fences was released in June this year. Mark is al...so an award winning writer of short fiction, with credits including the 2015 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, and his work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue, The Victorian Writer and The Australian. Thanks for joining us, Mark!

06.01.2022 Huge congratulations to Julia Prendergast and her team for putting together an engaging, thoughtful and stimulating program. Caroline

03.01.2022 Can’t believe it’s already over! But what an amazing festival is was. Thank you so much to Julia Prendergast and her team for all the hard work and the excellent programming. Hope to see you all again next year in Adelaide.