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GriffithReview34 The annual Fiction edition

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Claire aMan Mrs Dogwether’s bird momentroMy asH underwaterTony BirCH The loversGeorGia Blain enlarged + heart + childKaTHleen BleaKley islandssally Breen sunny lodgeBarBara BrooKs searching for MontyW H CHonG an abstract artCraiG CliFF offshore serviceDianne D’alpoiM archipelagoaMy espeseTH Free lunchasHley Hay elsie’s houseXavier HenneKinne The new capitalKaTe laHey The big one-eyed dorkBenJaMin laW post-nuclearMaya linDen ForgettingniColas loW octopusMelissa luCasHenKo Friday night at the nudgelMarGareT Merrilees sighting rottnestraCHael s MorGan TrystFavel parreTT no man is an islandJosepHine roWe The tankJulianne sCHulTz Time to don the bat wingsTHoMas sHapCoTT His grandfatherCory Taylor Continental driftelena WilliaMs Finding a florist in lidcombeJane WilliaMs a matter of instinctCHris WoMersley The middle of nowhere

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SIR SAMUEL GRIFFITH was one of Australia’s great early achievers. Twice the premier of Queensland, that state’s chief justice and the author of its criminal code, he was best known for his pivotal role in drafting agreements that led to Federation, and as the new nation’s first chief justice. He was also an important reformer and legislator, a practical and cautious man of words.

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GriffithREVIEW34THE ANNUAL

FICTION EDITIONEdited by Julianne Schultz

INTRODUCTION 9 Time to don the bat wings JULIANNE SCHULTZ: Fly a little, imagine a lot

FICTION 13 Offshore service CRAIG CLIFF

26 The tank JOSEPHINE ROWE

30 A matter of instinct JANE WILLIAMS

34 Mrs Dogwether’s bird moment CLAIRE AMAN

39 Friday night at the Nudgel MELISSA LUCASHENKO

47 Octopus NICOLAS LOW

59 Continental drift CORY TAYLOR

65 Enlarged + heart + child GEORGIA BLAIN

72 No man is an island FAVEL PARRETT

74 Tryst RACHAEL S MORGAN

85 Free lunch AMY ESPESETH

96 Elsie’s house ASHLEY HAY

111 Underwater ROMY ASH

116 The lovers TONY BIRCH

121 The new capital XAVIER HENNEKINNE

139 Searching for Monty BARBARA BROOKS

145 The big one-eyed dork KATE LAHEY

154 Forgetting MAYA LINDEN

158 Sunny Lodge SALLY BREEN

166 The middle of nowhere CHRIS WOMERSLEY

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MEMOIR 80 Finding a florist in Lidcombe ELENA WILLIAMS: Honouring the dead

101 Archipelago DIANNE D’ALPOIM: Other islands, other seas

149 Post-nuclear BENJAMIN LAW: Surviving the family Christmas

POETRY 54 His grandfather THOMAS SHAPCOTT

55 Sighting Rottnest MARGARET MERRILEES

64 Islands KATHLEEN BLEAKLEY

138 An abstract art WH CHONG

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On the Colonial Verandah BARBARA BROOKS

Masks of fiction: love letter from a stray moon JAY GRIFFITHS

A bay of islands PAT HOFFIE

The island METTE JAKOBSEN

The dog of fiction and the wolf of memory MIRIAM ZOLIN

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Griffith REVIEW Emerging Writers’ Prize2011

Congratulations to the winners of the third annual GREW Prize. Thanks to the continuing support of the Copyright Agency Ltd, Text Publishing and Varuna Writers’ House, we are pleased to announce two winners in each category. The fiction award this year goes to Romy Ash and Rachael S Morgan. The winners of the non-fiction award are Meera Atkinson and Nicolas Low. You can learn more about these writers and the GREW Prize at www.griffithreview.com/GREW The winners have been selected from those emerging writers published in Griffith REVIEW this year whose work has been deemed most original and influential. The award includes a week-long writing residency, manuscript appraisal and mentoring.

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Craig Cliff is a writer, columnist and public servant based in Wellington, New Zealand. His collection of short stories, A Man Melting (Random House, 2010), won Best First Book in the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

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Josephine Rowe is a Melbourne writer whose collection of short stories, How a Moth Becomes a Boat, was published in 2010 by Hunter Publishers. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Best Australian Poems, Best Australian Stories, HEAT, Overland, Dumbo Feather, Island, The Age, Australian Book Review, harvest, Going Down Swinging and Griffith REVIEW 32. She is working on a second collection of stories, to be published by UQP in 2012.

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Claire Aman lives in Grafton, New South Wales, working as a town planner and writing in her spare time. Her short stories have been published in two editions of New Australian Stories and in Best Australian Stories, Southerly, Island and HEAT, and broadcast on ABC Radio.

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Melissa Lucashenko is an award-winning novelist and essayist who lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation. Her novels include Steam Pigs, Hard Yards and Killing Darcy (all UQP). Melissa writes regularly for Griffith REVIEW and her essay ‘The angry country’ was included in Best Australian Essays 2010. This story is an extract from her fifth novel, Mullumbimby, which will be published by UQP in 2012 – a modern story of romantic love and friendship set amid a native-title war in northern New South Wales. Melissa is a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council.

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CORY TAYLOR: Continental drift 63

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Islands Kathleen Bleakley

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No man is an island Favel Parrett

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Favel Parrett is a Victorian writer who loves to surf in the Southern Ocean. Her short stories have been published in journals such as Wet Ink and Island, and her first novel, Past the Shallows, was published in May 2011 by Hachette Australia.

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Tryst Rachael S Morgan

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Rachael S Morgan is a full-time writer, based between the Gold Coast and Brisbane, with a background in entertainment journalism and arts and entertainment publicity. She is putting the finishing touches to her first full-length manuscript, working on a second novel and writing a screenplay. ‘Tryst’ won the 2011 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize.

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Finding a florist in Lidcombe Honouring the dead

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Ashley Hay’s first novel, The Body in the Clouds (Allen & Unwin, 2010), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the New South Wales Premier’s Prize and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. Her writing has appeared this year in Australian Geographic, The Australian, The Age, The Monthly and The Guardian, and previously in Griffith REVIEW editions 21 and 30. She lives in Brisbane.

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Romy Ash is a freelance writer. Her first novel, Floundering, was shortlisted for the 2011 Australian/Vogel Literary Award and will be published by Text in 2012. She has written for the Big Issue and frankie magazine. She writes a cooking column for Yen magazine and the blog Trotski & Ash.

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Benjamin Law is a Brisbane-based freelance writer. His debut book is The Family Law (Black Inc., 2010). His forthcoming book is a collection of journalism, looking at queer issues throughout Asia, titled Gaysia. www.benjamin-law.com

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Chris Womersley is a writer of fiction, reviews and essays. His work has appeared in Granta, The Age and Best Australian Stories 2006, 2010 and 2011. His second novel, Bereft (Scribe, 2010), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Australian Society of Literature Gold Medal, and won the Indie Award for Best Fiction. His stories have featured in Griffith REVIEW editions 20 and 25. www.chriswomersley.com

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