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'This collection is a treasure.' Christos TsiolkasApologia is a collection of stories threaded by the themes of loss and displacement. Each piece captures a tumultuous moment in time, and is grounded in the psychological journey of how people deal with their own traumas and fears. Though this collection is host to an array of completely different and individually captivating stories, Arathimos has succeeded in binding them through the depth of human connection and portrayal of raw human pain, both mental and physical. A truly inspiring collection of work, each piece will leave you with a better understanding of the hidden sufferings humans endure in their daily lives. Winner, 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award 'Swift, funny, deft, culturally alert and emotionally open stories.' Damien Wilkins 'Tender, generous and unafraid.' Jennifer Mills, DyschroniaMichalia Arathimos is a Greek writer. She has published work in The Lifted Brow, Westerly, Overland, Landfall and elsewhere, and is Overland's fiction reviewer. Her novel, Aukati, was published by Mākaro Press. She is the Writer in Residence at Randell Cottage and will hold the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in 2021.

Inspired by the true story of Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the highly scandalous failure of his Oregon ashram, Rajneeshpuram.

Can online sex life becomes more technicoloured than the real thing? Told in first person, this verse novel uses the language and shape of online chat, email, fragments and stream of consciousness to take the reader headfirst into the world of online life in the nineties. brb: be right back relives the beginnings of social networking with the humour, excitement and dilemmas it can pose. 'Dawes deftly parses the sad sass, seductive disassociaton and weightless absurdity of cybersex and an online affair with biting fidelity." Alvin Pang 'Maree Dawes is a new and refreshing voice in Australian poetry. brb: be right back -an exciting addition to the verse novel genre - is a blend of lyric, narrative poetry, and cyber-discourse.'Barbara Temperton MAREE DAWES is an West Australian poet, published nationally and internationally. Maree's first collection Women of the Minotaur explored the lives of mistresses in Picasso's life. It was featured on Poetica in May 2009 and dramatized for the PIAF writers festival 2010. Her short story 'I am so sweet and truthful' was adapted into a short film. Maree has collaborated with artists, dancers and embroiderers.

This is a collection of contemporary stories from the Queer community. It is about love, sex and identity told through diverse stories from buying a double bed, meeting neighbourhood witches and early morning swims. They talk about freedom and misery, victories and injustices. The result is a slew of fascinating tales expressing what being LGBTQIA+ means today. Introduction by researcher, writer and poet Quinn Eades whose work lies at the nexus of feminist and queer theories of the body, autobiography, and philosophy. Eades is published nationally and internationally, and is the author of all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body, and Rallying. 'A powerful, important and inspiring collection.' Monique Schafter, ABC Queer'An earnest collection of queer joys and sorrows, letting you know you're not alone in either.' Lore White, Baby Teeth Journal'Each of these brief pieces tells a unique story through an individual voice - from abstract to lyrical, rawly emotive to sparse - and yet extends to and embraces the larger, connected experience of being queer.'Angela Meyer, A Superior Spectre "A love letter to the queer community, composed out of elegance, radiance and charm."Kiran Bhat, We of the Forsaken World

The stories in Small Forest explore repression, the effects of music and the nature of relationships between generations. The protagonists are varied in these stories - and variously haunted. 'The small forest of this collection's title provides an eloquent metaphor that invites the reader to move through the stories in search of revelation and understanding, as well as pleasure in the reading.' CARMEL BIRD, 2016 Patrick White Literary Award recipient WILLIAM LANE lives in the Hunter Valley, NSW, where he is raising three children. After completing an Honours degree in Australian literature, he travelled and worked in a number of different jobs. In addition to reading and writing, his interests include music and education. He has completed a doctorate on the Australian writer Christina Stead, and has had several critical articles on Stead published in literary journals. Transit Lounge has published three of his novels, Over the Water (2014), The Horses (2015) and The Salamanders (2016), and is due to publish his fourth novel, The Word, in September 2018. Small Forest was Runner Up in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award.