Heather Millar

Eva Sallis

Sonja Dechian

Written by children and young adults and selected from a nationwide school competition, this anthology of essays, interviews, comments and short stories imaginatively recreates the experiences of young individuals who came to Australia as refugees. From escaping the Holocaust and surviving terrible boat journeys from Vietnam to persevering war-torn Croatia and Bosnia and fleeing oppression in Afghanistan and Iraq, these stories provide a representative sample of the various backgrounds and amazing experiences of asylum seekers in Australia over the last 50 years. Written with both the humor and innocence of children and the frank compassion of young adults, the recurrent theme of friendships that have been lost, broken, remembered, and found emerge as these young asylum seekers relive their escapes and relate their experiences fleeing to a new world.

Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers Aged 11-20 Years

Dark Dreams

A beautifully crafted novel of self discovery - it is through Lian's loss of identity in a confrontingly foreign culture that she is able to find compassion for her Vietnamese mother's difficult life and an understanding of their unforgiving relationship.

The City of Sealions

Jenni Devereux

This collection of short stories creates a narrative picture of Australians, past and present. It is also a mosaic of journeys, for we are nearly all displaced peoples or the descendents of displaced peoples, whether we are from indigenous, settler, migrant or refugee families.

Australian Stories by Young Writers Aged 8-21 Years

No Place Like Home

The Houdinis live in a rundown, isolated house called Whispers in the heart of the South Australian bush. Acantia lets her five children's creativity run free. Her strange riutalistic rules and regulations govern the family's life until her fervour descends into a madness which has repercussions for each child and the family as a whole.

Fire Fire

The Thousand and One Nights was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a radically different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change. This study explores the Nights with reference to this view of literature.

The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights'

Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass

Winner of the 1997 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

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