Maxine Beneba Clarke is already a well-known Melbourne voice: a fiction writer and slam poet with an enthusiastic following. Now we have her first collection of short stories, Foreign Soil – the winner of the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript – and it is a remarkable collection indeed. While its ten stories, ranging in length from fifteen to fifty pages, are unasha ... (read more)
Susan Midalia
Susan Midalia is a Perth-based author of three short story collections, all shortlisted for major Australian literary awards, and a novel called The Art of Persuasion (2018). Her new novel, Everyday Madness, will be published early in 2021. She is also a freelance editor and mentor, and has been a judge of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards and the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, as well as numerous short story competitions.