Scribe is thrilled to announce that we will be publishing another anthology of short stories, New Australian Stories 2.0, again edited by our fiction acquisitions editor, Aviva Tuffield. New Australian Stories 2.0 will be published in February 2011.
As with the prototype, New Australian Stories, the anthology will feature established stars of the short-story firmament alongside new and emerging ones.
For New Australian Stories 2.0 we are collaborating with two partners.
Firstly, our friends at Varuna, the Writers' House, will be running the Varuna/NAS national short story competition, with the winners (judged by Peter Bishop, Cate Kennedy and Aviva Tuffield) to be published in New Australian Stories 2.0, and/or to be awarded a week-long residency at Varuna to work with Cate Kennedy, one of Australia's finest writers of short stories.
Submissions to the Varuna/NAS competition open on 1 June and close on 30 June. Visit the Varuna website for more details: www.varuna.com.au
Secondly, we are teaming up with the Ned Kelly Awards to publish the winner of the S.D. Harvey Short Story Award in New Australian Stories 2.0. This award was established in 2009 in honour of Sandra Harvey, a respected journalist who worked both for the Sydney Morning Herald and the ABC's Four Corners program, and was fearless in her pursuit of the truth.
Applications for the S.D. Harvey Award close on 31 May. For more information about entering the award, go to: www.nedkellyawards.com/SDHarvey.html