Cirrus@Austlit

'Former lovers reunite to stage a play.

A pharmaceutical company plots to exploit the third world.

A hippopotamus develops a drug habit.

A girl spends a rainy Tuesday night with her stalker …

Is it better to shed light on our darkest secrets or let them smoulder within? Some may flicker and die with time, but others, if we’re not careful, may go up in flames.

'Hide Your Fires is the 26th collection from the creative writing program at the University of Technology, Sydney. Featuring authors including Rosie Cintio, Jane Downing, Maggie Korenblium, Danny Loch and Kate Simonian, this is a not-to-be-missed event on Australia’s literary calendar.

'With a foreword by artist and award-winning author Fiona McGregor.' (Publication summary)

'Welcome to this special anniversary edition of the UTS Writers’ Anthology, showcasing writers from four decades of its prestigious Creative Writing program, one of the oldest in Australia. Introduced by Miles Franklin Award winner, Melissa Lucashenko, this treasury of prose, poetry, scripts and non-fiction affords glimpses of the shifting social and political landscape, and evolving literary trends.

'Since its first edition, Pink Cakes (1982), the Anthology has fostered some of Australia’s finest new writing.  This collection features some of the earliest work of its best-loved writers and emerging voices—Beth Yahp, Alison Whittaker, Toby Fitch, Gillian Mears, MTC Cronin, sydney khoo, Verity Borthwick and Sam Twyford-Moore among many shining stars.' (Publication summary)