Summer Fiction
What better way to while away your summer days than with The Big Issue’s annual Fiction Edition! Featuring 12 Australian writers, both well-loved and emerging, these stories will surprise, delight and set your heart soaring.
It’s a bumper edition, with extra pages, thanks to The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, so fix yourself an ice-cold drink and pull out the sun lounger, you’ve got a lot of reading to do!
Stories by:
- Alice Pung
- Amanda McLeod
- Anna Spargo-Ryan
- Aoife Clifford
- Em Meller
- Hannah Goldstein
- Jim Browne
- JM Donellan
- Laura McPhee-Browne
- Mandy Beaumont
- MJ Reidy
- Wen-Juenn Lee
Illustrated by Matthew Brazier. With special thanks to our judges, writer and critic Declan Fry and poet and former Big Issue books editor Thuy On.
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by Tim Winton
