Join A Constant Hum author Alice Bishop and Simpson Returns author Wayne Macauley at the Australian Short Story Festival, the annual celebration of short stories in written and spoken forms.

As the first national event to focus exclusively on the short story form, the Australian Short Story Festival offers a unique contribution to the nation’s literary culture, as well as a timely response to the current resurgence of this aesthetically exacting narrative form.

The festival is a non-profit organisation set up to bring writers, oral storytellers, and audiences together in a different Australian city each year. In 2019 the Festival will be held for the first time in Melbourne, Victoria, from 18 – 20 October.