Tony Birch | Julie Koh | A.S. Patric | Zoe Bradley | Laura Elvery | Mikaella Clements | Laura Elizabeth Woollett | Khalid Warsame | and more …A childless couple find an abandoned baby on the beach. A twilight car accident has a man lost in the bush. Two men on the coast share an unspoken love. A father is prosecuted by his small-town community. A young woman has a threatening first date. A writer is terrorised by the ghosts of his fiction. Drugs drive childhood friends apart. City folk visit a room for crying.

New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best. These stories will move, entertain and enlighten you.