The Story Hunters, Volume 2 | Hunter Writers Centre
Cover design and typesetting by Rack & Rune We conjure a lot of fantastical scenarios within The Story Hunters. Fairy rings, zombie holocausts, killer nanobots, possessed washing machines, intergalactic world-conquering mothers-in-law. None of them, however, measure up to the real-life events of 2020. Way, way back in February of this year, our little writers’ group […]
The Story Hunters, Volume 1 | Hunter Writers Centre
Cover design and typesetting by Rack & Rune A father struggles to protect his children from the horrors of an alien apocalypse, an important package must be delivered in a world gone to ruin, and animal spirits conjured up by dark magic run wild amongst the harsh outbackThese are just a few of the scenarios […]
Grieve, Volume 9 | Hunter Writers Centre
Final typesetting, cover design and book layout by Rack & Rune A few hours after your death, the Eta Aquarids meteor shower peaked, lighting up the sky with shooting stars. It gave us a way to mark your splendour. ~ Splendour in Darkness by Polly Watkins Grieve volume 9 features poems and stories by Australians […]
Grieve, Volume 8 | Hunter Writers Centre
Final typesetting, cover design and book layout by Rack & Rune 2020 is the 8th year of the Grieve Project. Since 2013, Australians have submitted poems and stories about their experience with parental grief, sibling grief, loss of a home and numerous other forms of grief and loss. 2020 was a year of collective grief […]
Any Saturday 2021, Running Westward | Hunter Writers Centre
Final typesetting and book layout by Rack & Rune The strength of the Newcastle Poetry Prize is that it encourages both emerging and more established writers to test out new work of an extended nature. We congratulate the winning, commended and shortlisted poets and would like to encourage all who entered, and who keep on […]
Measures of Truth | Hunter Writers Centre
Final typesetting and book layout by Rack & Rune The Newcastle Poetry Prize, one of the country’s most prestigious and important awards, is always a challenge for the judges. There were 590 entries in this year’s prize. Of these, sixty poems or roughly ten percent we considered as contenders. After further discussion, we settled on […]
Newcastle Short Story Award 2022 | Hunter Writers Centre
Final typesetting, cover design and book layout by Rack & Rune ‘I am remotely employed to write the obituaries of semi-prominent shareholders of the least unethical of the four big banks for a bi-monthly internal publication … I am trying to determine the rate of my hairline’s retreat. Each year, in June, I take a […]
Newcastle Short Story Award 2021 | Hunter Writers Centre
Final typesetting, cover design and book layout by Rack & Rune When Lorna was fourteen, the driver of a white station wagon drifted off to sleep and sailed in a dream along a dimly lit road, through the front of her parents’ red hatchback and into their seated bodies. ~ Lucy Nelson, winner, 2021 Newcastle […]
Slippery, Slimy, Feathered and Furred | HUnter Writers Centre
Cover illustration and typesetting by Rack & Rune Will the Black Cockatoo escape the bushfire? Will the Shark escape the fisherman’s hook? Will the honeyeater lose its song? Find out in these 14 Tales of endangered Aussie Animals – fiction stories plus fun facts. Aimed at young readers (approx. 7 – 12yrs), these stories entertain […]