Cirrus@Austlit

'The eighth edition of Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. This year, AWAW is proudly launching at the Melbourne Writers Festival, on 30 August at 5pm.

'The collection will feature over fifty writers and competitions. It will include a foreword by Elizabeth Flux, freelance writer and editor of Voiceworks magazine. Both established and emerging writers are featured in this year's anthology, including Kevin Gillam, Emmie Rae, Jessica Yu, Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Chloe Wilson, who won The Age Short Story Competition in 2012, and David Campbell, who has published two books of original Australian verse and a collection of short stories, and has been published extensively in Australian short story and poetry anthologies. '

'Dark Deeds Down Under 2, the next volume of our ground-breaking, bestselling anthology series, edited by Craig Sisterson, features 21 short stories by the best storytelling talents from Australia and New Zealand: including international bestsellers, many award winners and a host of fresh voices.

'Brand new stories, some with beloved series characters, share the pages of our Down Under world with edgy standalone tales, and the first in new series.

'The settings in this vibrant showcase of antipodean crime, range from the seething underbellies of our cosmopolitan cities to New Zealand’s South Island glaciers or Australia’s dusty Outback; from ocean-carved coasts and craggy mountains, via country towns and sleepy villages, to isolated wilderness and sultry rainforests.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.