A review by mawaridi
New Australian Fiction 2019 by Allee Richards, Gretchen Shirm, A.S. Patric, Craig Cormick, Chloe Michele, Zoe Bradley, Jack Kirne, Julie Koh, Rebecca Starford, Andrea Gillum, Khalid Warsame, Joshua Kemp, Mikaella Clements, Melanie Saward, Tony Birch, Laura Elvery, Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Wayne Marshall, Anne Hotta

4.0

A really nice collection of brief, eclectic tales with lots of familiar Australian flavour. The stories are all quite short, good to dip in and out of for a quick reading session, but they can still pack a punch. There's a lot of interesting variety in theme, voice and structure. Plus, they're all really good! It's easy for an anthology to have a few stories that fall flat (according to personal taste) but I didn't find that here. The ones that particularly shone for me were Julie Koh's dry ghost story, Workers of All Lands Unite, the quietly painful The Crying Room by Gretchen Shirm, and Mould by Zoë Bradley, which made me have to put the book down for a while before I could start the next story.