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In this collection of new essays from the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist, First Nations writers and writers of colour bend and shift boundaries, query the past and envision new futures. They ask: How do we write or hold our former selves, our ancestries? How does where we come from connect to where we are headed? How do we tell the stories of those who have been diminished or ignored in the writing of history? How do we do justice to the lives they lived, or to the people they were?
From the intricacies of trans becoming, to violences inflicted on stateless peoples, to complex inheritances and the intertwining of tradition, politics and place, this prescient collection challenges singular narratives about the past, offering testimony and prophecy alike.
ESSAYS BY André Dao, Barry Corr, Brandon K. Liew, Elizabeth Flux, Frankey Chung-Kok-Lun, grace ugamay dulawan, Hannah Wu, Hasib Hourani, Hassan Abul, Jon Tjhia, Kasumi Bocrzyk, Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn, Lou Garcia-Dolnik, Lur Alghurabi, Mykaela Saunders, Ouyang Yu, Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh, Ryan Gustafsson, Suneeta Peres da Costa and Veronica Gorrie
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Endorsements
“This is something of a first: voices from the other side of the racial imaginary coming to life with surprising insight, authenticity and innovation.” Brian Castro
“For me and so many others, Liminal has beautifully and deftly showcased players in the Australian arts scene that are so often overlooked, but arguably constitute its beating heart. What a goddamn joy they’re now doing the same for fiction.” Benjamin Law
“Harmonious but discordant, language stretched and challenged. You are moved through spaces of tender familiarity and dissonances. Each writer brings their own rhythm, contained with the beautiful subtleties we look for in fiction. Woven through is a fabric of complex characters and yielding interpretations of the short story form. With each story being a container for separate heartbreaks and epiphanies.” Jamie Marina Lau
"Time and time again the beginning point to access minority writing is the deficit. The reader asks the minority writer of their authentic experiences, the reader asks how does this work appeal to their hegemonic gaze? What excites me about Collisions - this offering from Liminal, is that the writers are centring themselves. Both emerging and more established writers are playing with form. And it excites me to read genre work that still speaks to the anxieties and pain of the subject position - whether that be first nations, diaspora, queer or gender diverse. The content in this publication represents a step forward for minority writing in the Australian literary landscape." Peter Polites
"Some of Australia’s best writing ... Every story in this anthology has earnt its place. Collisions is full of humour, pathos, anger, warmth, and compassion. Above all, it is full of outstanding writing." "Collisions is full of humour, pathos, anger, warmth, and compassion. Above all, it is full of outstanding writing." Tracey Korsten, GlamAdelaide
"A beautiful new collection of words has arrived to remind us of their enduring power and much-needed solace" "[Reading Collisions] feels personal—like tracing the experiences of people you know, the family you haven’t seen, looking into the spaces that are so often relegated to the margins." Monisha Rudhran, marie claire
"a complex and enriching contribution to the canon of contemporary Australian literature" – Monikka Eliah, Kill Your Darlings
"This anthology is a refreshing disruption of Australia’s literary mainstream...a stunning addition to any reader’s bookshelf." – The Saturday Paper
"Almost every writer in this anthology deserves their own book. And almost every reader in this country needs to acquaint themselves with this book." – Sunday Age
Author Biography
Leah Jing McIntosh 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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Collection copyright (c) 2022 by Liminal
Individual pieces (c) their respective authors
Pantera Press
Pantera Press is a young and enthusiastic Australian book publisher, created to champion writing culture and literacy in Australia with a clear community and cultural purpose. We discover and nurture talented Australian writers who are great storytellers. We also publish non-fiction books that matter, and have a quirky imprint designed for millennials, Lost the Plot. From our Australian origins we are now also publishing titles that fit our criteria from around the world. As a social purpose business, we use our profits to fund charities and not-for-profits that encourage reading and work to close the literacy gap in Australia.
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- Publisher Pantera Press
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780648987581
- Publication Country or regionAustralia
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 32.99 AUD
- Pages296
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2022
- Dimensions201 x 135 mm
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