Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)
It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas
Rosa Praed, The Sea-birds’ Message (short story)
by Mrs Campbell Praed (1851-1935) There is a great lake in one of the inland districts of Northern Australia. It is closed in by green ranges, which slope down to a beach of silvery sand. It has no outlet for its waters, which are salt as the sea. Pelicans and wild...
R McKay Tully, The Power of a Child (short story)
by R McKay Tully Having given up working the land after many years of drought, a man loses his way in the outback. This short story first appeared in 1903 in The Dawn. “High noon, not a cloud in the sky,” quoted Ted Morris as he staggered out of the dense scrub...
M.G.B., Her Little Lad (fiction extract)
by Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958) Mary Grant Bruce’s juvenilia, including her short story, “Her Little Lad”, featured in our Wednesday essay this week. As her work is still in copyright it can only be extracted here. The full story can be read on...#AWW2025
