Welcome to the August Fiction issue of ABR! Highlights include:
• Review of the Month: Marilyn Lake reviews Peter Cochrane’s Best We Forget
• ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellow Beejay Silcox on MFA culture
• The 2018 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist
• Historian Alan Atkinson on The Sydney Wars by Stephen Gapps
• Jen Webb on Ryan O’Neill’s new satire The Drover’s Wives
• Shannon Burns on Sam Twyford-Moore’s memoir The Rapids
• Dorothy Driver on Sisonke Msimang’s memoir Always Another Country
• Interviews with legendary Australian publisher Carmen Callil, and author Rose Tremain
August 2018, no. 403
'We are all MFAs now!' by Beejay Silcox
‘Creative writing is, in sum, as American as baseball, apple pie and homicide.’
Mark McGurl, The Program Era (2009)
My rejection from the Iowa Writers ... More
Marilyn Lake reviews 'Best We Forget: The war for white Australia, 1914–18' by Peter Cochrane
In pondering the construction of public memory in Ireland, the eminent American historian Richard White insisted on the demythologising work of history as a discipline: ‘History is the e More
Alan Atkinson reviews 'The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788–1817' by Stephen Gapps
The Uluru Statement from the Heart, in May 2017, might not have had much resonance with the federal government. However, it coincides with a new phase of writing and research that helps to More
Open Page with Rose Tremain
ABR: Name an early literary idol or influence whom you no longer admire – or vice versa.
RT: Lawrence Durrell. At fifteen, I loved his prose so much, I wanted to eat the book; now I want to chuck al More
