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

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.

Sonja Dechian

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