We'll Stand In That Place and other stories
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Catherine Noske is a lecturer in Creative Writing and editor of Westerly at the University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on contemporary Australian place-making. She has been awarded the A.D. Hope Prize, twice received the Elyne Mitchell Prize for Rural Women Writers, and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award 2015. Her first novel is forthcoming with Picador.
Since 2011, Perth writer Anthony Panegyres (Phillips) has had works featured in The Best Australian Stories 2014, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2015, Overland (including a story short listed for the Aurealis Award), Meanjin, The Guardian, Dreaming of Djinn and several other homes, including the award-winning anthologies Bloodlines and At the Edge. He is currently a doctoral candidate at UWA.
Emily Paull is a writer, blogger, editor and former bookseller from Western Australia. Her work has appeared in Westerly as well as two previous Margaret River Press Anthologies. Her debut collection of short stories will be published by Margaret River Press later in 2019. You can find out more about Emily at www.emi-lypaull.com.
Kathy Prokhovnik is currently working on her second novel and a narrative non-fiction history of Sydney. She blogs at http://kat-hyprokhovnik.com/ in two threads: ‘Sydney snaps’ and ‘At the farm’. Awards for her short stories include: highly commended in the 2018 and 2017 KSP Short Fiction Awards (and runner-up in 2016); and winner of the 2016 Joyce Parkes Women Writers Prize and the 1988 Olga Masters Short Story Competition, University of Queensland Press Award. She has had short stories published in the Seizure ‘Flashers’ series, in Certifiable Truths (Allen & Unwin, 1998), Meanjin, Westerly and Hecate .
K. A. Rees writes poetry and short fiction. Her poems and short stories have been included by Red Room Company, Rochford Street Review, Yalobusha Review, Review of Australian Fiction, Australian Poetry and Cordite Poetry Review, among others. In 2012, Kate was the Café Poet in Residence at the State Library of NSW. She was shortlisted for the 2016 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of the 2017 Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction and runner-up in the 2018 Peter Cowan Short Story Award. She is a 2019 Varuna fellowship holder for her manuscript of short fiction. Kate lives with her family in Sydney.
Mirandi Riwoe’s novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella V and was shortlisted for The Stella Prize. She is the author of two crime novels and is prose editor for Peril Magazine. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Shibboleth and Other Stories and Best Summer Stories. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).
Kit Scriven has been published in Island and short story anthologies. He won the Olga Master Short Story Award in 2016 and 2017, and the SALA Short Story Prize in 2016. He has been highly commended or shortlisted in several other short story competitions.
Mark Smith lives on Victoria’s Surf Coast. His debut novel, The Road to Winter, was published in 2016 by Text Publishing. The sequel, Wilder Country, won the 2018 Australian Indie Book Award for YA. Mark is also an award-winning writer of short fiction, with credits including the 2015 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Prize. His work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue, The Victorian Writer and The Australian.
Andrew Sutherland is a Queer writer and theatre practitioner working between Western Australia and Singapore. Theatre works include Poorly Drawn Shark, Unveiling: Gay Sex for Endtimes, Baby Girl, Chrysanthemum Gate, and Ragnarok. He was awarded Overland’s Fair Australia Poetry Prize 2017 and selected as a poet for Westerly’s Writers’ Development Program 2018. His poetry and prose can be found in various publications including Visible Ink, Suburban Review, Muse/A, Bosie and From Whispers to Roars.
Jem Tyley-Miller is a crime writer from Bacchus Marsh who sees life through a magical realist lens. A 2018 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, Jem works casually directing extras to fund her very serious writing habit and co-organises the Peter Carey Short Story Award in her spare time. You can read more of her writing in Spike, the Meanjin blog.
Lynette Washington is a writer, editor, publisher and teacher of creative and professional writing. Her stories have been published widely and performed at events such as Spineless Wonders Presents and Quart Short Literary Readings. In 2014 she edited the story collection Breaking Beauty. In 2017 she co-edited the story collection Crush. Plane Tree Drive, her debut, was highly commended in the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and shortlisted for the Most Underrated Book Award.
Acknowledgements
The 1st and 2nd prizes of the Margaret River Short Story Competition are sponsored by Margaret River Press
The South West Prize is sponsored by Edith Cowan University, South West Campus