Slinkies 2022
A child discovers the terrible secret of the garden shed. New housing estates become battlefields. A werewolf returns to the loving arms of their family. Australia’s colonial history is recast with zombie penguins and contemporary life is haunted by prehistoric skulls and doppelgangers.
This is a diverse collection of contemporary stories from exciting new writers under 30 years of age.
The anthology includes bizarre, speculative and dystopic fiction by Brianna Bullen, Freyja Catron, Maz Howard, Patrick Taylor, Svetlana Sterlin and Nick van Buuren.
Ch'aska Cuba de Reed is an emerging writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Spineless Wonders’ Slinkies Shorts 2020, the 2020 Better Read Than Dead anthology and UTS Writers’ Anthology: Bloom.
Emma Wortley is a writer and comedian with a background in academia and has published papers on children’s and young adult literature (the subject of her PhD thesis) in various journals.
