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 […]
Cookie Jar | Megan Hills
Typesetting by Rack & Rune A wheelchair-bound artist is preyed on by a stalker; a young taxi driver breaks the law daily for mysterious reasons; a glass artist’s marriage is at breaking point; a journalist invests in a business destroying the relationships of everyone he loves; an artist discovers she is trapped in an impossible […]
Pavlova Rising | Megan Hills
Typesetting by Rack & Rune Anna wants to escape. Preferably to the other side of the world. She belongs in the prestigious studentship program at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Not Sydney, in an office resembling a cleaning cupboard. But her London opportunity is torn to shreds. The shredder? Englishman Dr Perry, Anna’s new art thesis […]
A Long the River Run | Glenn Stuart Beatty
Typesetting and Cover Design by Rack & Rune Angela MacGregor has lived a life of obsessions. In middle age she started to find some peace from those obsessions in her self-imposed exile in the mountain country in the Hunter Valley. That peace is shattered when a bushfire threatens to destroy everything and everybody she has […]