Margaret River Press: 13 books

The Margaret River region of Australia’s south-west is internationally renowned for its award-winning wines. There are now more than 200 wineries, predominantly boutique style, in the region, producing more than 20% of Australia’s premium wine market.The Way It Was tells the story of the early...

The collection is made up of twenty four stories selected from the 216 entries to the annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. There is a strong sense throughout this collection of stories of characters playing their parts-sometimes on a large stage, but more frequently in a single room, or its...

The 2016 Margaret River Short Story Competition anthology presents the finest emerging and established voices in Australian literature.These are stories to be felt, read and remembered. They cover births, deaths, and moments that define our hopes, fears and failures. They are stories that connect...

This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories submitted to the annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. Twenty-four stories make up this collection that includes works by internationally and nationally prize winning short story writers. The winning story, "Lost Boy" is the story...

Seventeen stories selected from the sixth annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. A truly national competition, contributors this year come from Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.Queenslander Laura Elvery’s winning entry, Joiner Bay, is a tender story about running...

Twenty-four stories were selected from 260 entries submitted to the Margaret River Short Story Writing Competition. These are stories about men, women - and children - who stand aside from the mainstream world, and see it, as Emily Dickinson would say, 'aslant'. In Barry Divola's winning story, Knitting,...

Sixteen exquisite stories exploring recent Chinese migration to Australia and elsewhere, exploring intergenerational and interracial relationships, the search for meaning, and the effects of isolation and the inability to express oneself in a second language.Best-selling author, Debra Adelaide, says...

More to the Story looks beyond negative media reports, political speeches and fear-mongering statistics to tell human stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. Julian Burnside, AO, QC writes in the Foreword to the book, 'The great importance of this book is that it gives a real human...

You Belong Here follows the Slater family from the years 1972 2002, finding faith, faults, and redemption, in a raw, at times heartbreaking, but ultimately hopeful meditation on what it means to be a family in modern Australia.'An unforgettable exploration of the things that hold families together,...

Through a multitude of distinct voices, Gildfind’s startling tales explore the absurd, macabre, surreal and too-real whilst wrestling with the irrevocable acts, immutable facts, and relentless uncertainties that lie at the dark heart of every life.

'There are only a handful of novelists who have looked at the 60s of demonstrations, civil disobedience, riots, imprisonment and change - thank heavens Hall has joined their ranks with such a perceptive and honest account. Pass it on to your children' (Michael Hyde, author of All Along the Watchtower)...

In its seventh year, the Competition attracted almost 250 entries from around Australia. Seventeen stories were selected for publication, by authors from Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia.This year’s winner is Andrew Roff, from South Australia. Second prize was awarded to Cassie Hamer, from NSW. The southwest prize was won by Tiffany Hastie.

Thirty-one year old Beth, who has grown up in the Western Australian wheatbelt, is running from her past when she heads to an island in Papua New Guinea. Interwoven with her story about the joys and brutalities of island life is the story of her parents’ passionate, tender love for each other and the tragedy that forever marks the lives around them.