Bent Not Broken
Ten Years of Creative Writing from Canterbury-Bankstown
A collection of award-winning and highly commended short stories and poems from the Canterbury-Bankstown region.
Place, Race, Space: Bent Not Broken is a ten year showcase of award-winning stories by young people from the backyards of South Western Sydney. Featuring prose and poetry by Donna Wilson, Christine Wu, Anneliese Joy, Seini Fuko, Mohamad Al-Abdallah, Frances An, Rebecca Nguyen, Sarah Hoang, Peviula Taotua, Duc Luu, Tiana Munro, Angeliki Georgakopoulou, Indiana Dinh, Lydia Villavarayen, Christophine Demetrios, Dan Nguyen, Amir Harris, Daniel Kabbara, Yoosuf Mohamed, Maria Rulloda, Danielle Nguyen, Alex Driessen, Filip Stempien, Mehek Fatiha Rahman, Ushna Bashir, Peta Murphy, Brooke Mansell, Isabella Whitcher, Mary Tran, Anita Grassy, Sheza Khan, Talia Walker, Amanda Yeo, Luke Lancaster, Rayanne Elhgar, Moslimah Zoud, Dorothy Kamal, Daniel Bishara, Paul Boustani, Rebekah Bijkovska and Arthur Wang.
Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and editor of After Australia (Affirm Press, 2020). His debut novel, The Tribe (Giramondo, 2014), won the 2015 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists of the Year Award. His second novel, The Lebs (Hachette, 2018) received the 2019 NSW Premier’s Multicultural Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Mohammed received his Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University in 2017. His latest novel is The Other Half of You (Hachette, 2021).
Winnie Dunn is the General Manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies, including Another Australia (Affirm Press, 2022). She is a writer of Tongan descent from Mount Druitt and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Sydney University. She is currently completing her debut novel, Dirt Poor Islanders (Hachette, 2023), which has been assisted by the Australia Council for the Arts.
Julie Koh was born in Sydney to Chinese-Malaysian parents. She studied politics and law at the University of Sydney, then quit a career in corporate law to pursue writing. She is the author of two short story collections: Capital Misfits (Math Paper Press, 2016) and Portable Curiosities (UQP, 2016).
