a big Melbourne week of short fiction

This is the week when you should be looking out in Melbourne for your Big Issue vendor, and purchasing the Fiction Issue, which has a new story by Cate Kennedy, and a bit of adult fiction by successful YA writer Penni Russon.
(Regular issues, of course, carry fiction reviews edited by the Readings bookshop newsletter editor, Jo Case, and are worth your five dollars just for those.)

*Update: Get it at once, it is EXCELLENT. Ask your street vendor if he/she still has copies this week.

I should open a book on how many of these will make Best Oz Stories '09. Fabulous selection, Jo.

Comments

[Hackpacker]

Good to meet you last night and see you practising what you preach with a copy of the snazzy Big Ish in hand.
We should think about kicking off a blog ring for the Cit of Lit somehow. Perhaps this was discussed this in greater depth after I left.

[Benjamin Solah]

Thanks for the tip.

I might make an effort to get it from the guy outside Flagstaff station with the cool songs.

[stop dreaming start action]

i want to have a holiday on melbourne

[genevieve]

Ah, the singer - I think I have caught him in declaiming mode once before.

George, it's very good. I think I'll ask Alan A. for the backlist.
Regarding the ring -certainly an idea. Not sure I want to be in a Melbourne-centric one though - BritBlogs is good enough for the UK, perhaps we should not be State-arian about it.
But let's talk some more by all means.
Benjamin, hope you got your copy, you won't be sorry.

[Jo]

Thanks Genevieve! We really appreciate the plug - if people don't buy this edition, we can't do another one next year - the vendors' fortnightly wages depend on the mag's popularity. That said, it seems to selling fantastically, partly thanks to the word spreading via people like you, Hackpacker and Penni (and The Age this weekend).

I should put in a big fat word for my co-editor on this edition, Melissa Cranenbergh, the Big Ish Deputy Ed. She was the driver behind getting this issue going and is absolutely passionate about short fiction. We're both thrilled with the selection - it would be exciting if some of the stories make it into Best Australian Stories, yes. Our fingers are crossed! Thanks again.

[estelle]

Hi Genevieve. Can't believe it has taken me this long to pop a note down here to say how nice it was to meet you last week. I can't wait to read this issue of TBI. We want to get someone from TBI for SYN...maybe Jo? ;)