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Collisions: Fictions Of The Future

An Anthology Of Australian Writers Of Colour
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Collisions: Fictions Of The Future is a compelling collection of experimental, genre-bending stories that explore possible futures through vivid, imaginative scenarios. From a tense dinner party amid climate disaster to a father renting his backyard as a cemetery, and activists planning assaults in a dystopian setting, these narratives challenge traditional ideas and present diverse voices from Australian writers of colour. The collection confronts eurocentric norms and reimagines futures with urgency and creativity.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in speculative and literary fiction that pushes boundaries and tackles urgent themes of climate change, identity, and societal shifts. It is particularly suited to those who appreciate diverse perspectives and innovative storytelling in contemporary Australian literature.

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Experimental, genre-bending, lucid stories of the future from the inaugural LIMINAL Fiction Prize longlist.

What does the future hold? A tense dinner party is held amid an impending climate catastrophe. A father leases his backyard out to a cemetery. Activists plan an attack on ASIO drones in a shock-jock run government. A voyeur finds herself caught in time. Featuring both emerging and established writers of colour, this collection showcases some of the best work that Australian literature has to offer.

These stories are sites for collisions: against eurocentric ideals, against narrow concepts of excellence, against stagnant ideas of the world to come. But collisions also manifest in the way our lives come into contact with others, how our pasts shift against the present, and how our imaginations sit against our realities.

Collisions is necessary reading for the future of fiction, and the future of our shared world.

Stories by Bryant Aplonio, Kasumi Borczyk, Claire Cao, Claire G. Coleman, Elizabeth Flux, Jason Gray, Eda GΓΌnaydin, Naima Ibrahim, CB Mako, Sumudu Samarawickrama, Mykaela Saunders, Bobuq Sayed, Victor Chrisnaa Senthinathan, Misbah Wolf, Hannah Wu, Jessica Zhan Mei.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780648795186

Publisher: Pantera Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 November 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: Pantera Press

Illustration: Text only

Contributors:

  • Edited by Leah Jing McIntosh
  • Edited by Adalya Nash Hussein
  • Edited by Hassan Abul
  • Edited by Cher Tan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 170g

Pages: 168

About the Author

Leah Jing McIntoshΒ is the founding editor of LIMINAL magazine. Profiling and elevating the work of Asian-Australian creatives, LIMINAL was created in response to a need for greater diversity in the arts. Since 2017, Leah has published over 150 long-form interviews by and for Asian-Australian creatives. She has curated collections of art and writing, and co-edited Comic Sans, an anthology of comics by writers of colour. As part of LIMINAL’s focus on building community, Leah also curates poetry and performance nights. She has collaborated with The New York Times, Melbourne Writers Festival, Australian National University, amongst other organisations, to promote the work of Asian-Australian creatives. In 2019, Leah founded the LIMINAL Fiction Prize, the first Australian short fiction prize solely dedicated to writers of colour. Collisions, a forthcoming anthology of the longlisted pieces, will be published in November 2020, with Pantera Press. Leah has written for The Saturday Paper, Meanjin Quarterly, and Archer Magazine, amongst others, and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne. She has been a Victorian nominee for Young Australian of the Year, named in Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30: Class of 2020, and Asialink’s 40 under 40 most influential Asian-Australians.

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