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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... October 2016 of Sydney Review of Books est. 2013 Sydney Review of Books
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* Contents derived from the 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Novelist of the Sorrowful Countenance, James Ley , single work review
— Review of The Schooldays of Jesus J. M. Coetzee , 2016 single work single work novel ;
Bad Writer, Michael Mohammed Ahmad , single work essay

'Two years ago the British Centre for Literary Translation invited me to Anhui Province in China to participate as a guest author in their annual translation program. I was asked to facilitate a creative writing workshop with the English-speaking participants in the program which would follow on from a workshop run by Vietnamese-Australian author of The Boat, Nam Le. For two hours I watched patiently and quietly as Nam worked with twenty aspirational writers and translators who had come to China from all over the (Western) world, including Australia, the United States, Ireland, Scotland and England. Nam wrote six random words up on a chalkboard, ‘shoes’, ‘man’, ‘mountain’, ‘love’, ‘fear’ and ‘fingers’, and then he told the participants to each write a short story or poem using these six words. I was disappointed to hear the writers in the group read back the stories they wrote, which all followed the same thread: A man wandered a mountain in a pair of shoes, searching for love and afraid he would find it. It did not occur to even one of them that a mountain could be in love with a man or a shoe could be afraid of a finger, or more importantly, that the mountain, the man, the shoes and the finger could all have a specific identity. After all, we were in view of China’s Sacred Yellow Mountain and with so much diversity in the room, participants had dirt on their shoes and under their fingernails from places no one else in the group could have imagined. It was at this point that I realised the universality of bad writing: the bad writing that this international collective of writers produced was no different from the bad writing I had dealt with as a writer, editor, publisher and teacher in Western Sydney for over fifteen years.' (Introduction)

We Are Here and We Are Significant, Felicity Castagna , single work essay
Lost Landscapes of Waterloo, Tom Lee , single work essay
The Way Home : Laurie Duggan, Ali Smith , single work essay
James Waites : A Man of the Theatre, Ben Brooker , single work biography
The Writers We Deserve, Shannon Burns , single work review
— Review of Their Brilliant Careers : The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers Ryan O'Neill , 2016 selected work short story ; Wood Green Sean Rabin , 2016 single work novel ;
Who Knows Where : Netherspace, Alison Whittaker , single work essay
394 Abercrombie Street, Anthony Macris , single work essay
The Bleeding Edge : New Short Fiction, Sophia Barnes , single work review
— Review of After the Carnage Tara June Winch , 2016 selected work short story ; Peripheral Vision Paddy O'Reilly , 2015 selected work short story ; Portable Curiosities Julie Koh , 2016 selected work short story ;
Stargazing with Rosa Praed, Jessica White , single work essay
A Home in Ananda and the World, Suneeta Peres da Costa , single work essay
Nightswimming in Dungog, Matthew Thompson , single work prose

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