Jump: The Time is Now

by Carolyn Martinez (Compiler), N.M. Taylor, Helen Booth

The collective stories in Jump: The Time is Now offer a cultural representation of the human experience of 2020/2021.

Stories in Jump: The Time is Now

1. 'Wildlife' by N. M. Taylor, Victoria, Australia
2. 'Accept, Deal, Repeat' by Helen Booth, Victoria, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
3. 'When the Grass was White' by M. S. Bhatia, South Australia
4. 'The Giant Killer' by Andrea Campbell, Victoria, Australia
5. 'Dirty Bastard' by Pamela Baker, Victoria, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
6. 'Time Machine' by Dienece Darling, Victoria, Australia
7. 'Black and Blue' by Riley Walter, South Australia
8. 'Deadly Alliance' by Jo Skinner, Queensland, Australia
9. 'Cardamom Coffee' by Andrey Panevin, Tasmania, Australia
10. 'Cratered' by T. L. Ransome, United States – Short-listed (Open)
11. 'Five to Ten' by Paul Blanksby, New South Wales, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
12. 'A Room in Time' by Lilian Grace, Queensland, Australia
13. 'Becoming' by Maddison Greer, Victoria, Australia
14. 'Hedwig Eva' by Kathryne Aye, United States
15. 'Betrayal' by Gillian Brown, France – Short-listed (Open)
16. 'The Visitor' by Georgina Horsburgh, New South Wales, Australia
17. 'Transatlanicism' by Elaine Mead, Tasmania, Australia
18. 'Greenthing' by Deborah Huff-Horwood, ACT, Australia
19. 'Character Actor' by Ben F. Blitzer, Western Australia
20. 'Brown Beret Man' by Lyndal Weightman, Daglish, Western Australia
21. 'Gold Rush' by Zachary Pryor, Victoria, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
22. 'The Unfurling of Frances Simmons' by Jackie Morris, Great Britain
23. 'A Lesson in Life' by Helen Manias, Queensland, Australia
24. 'A Courageous Boy' by Mira Nguyen, New South Wales, Australia (junior entrant)
25. 'The Gully' by Rebecca Douglas, South Australia
26. 'Background Noise' by Ross van Brink, Victoria, Australia
27. '6th of September 2018' by Mulay Sangeeta, Great Britain – Short-listed (Open)
28. 'Lest We Forget' by Aimee Sargent, Western Australia
29. 'Another World' by Yannis Ho, New South Wales (junior entrant)
30. 'Dumpster Zone' by Jane Turner Goldsmith, South Australia – Short-listed (Open)
31. 'The Treehouse' by Sarah Marchant, Western Australia
32. 'Brad and Janet' by Karen Lethlean, New South Wales, Australia
33. 'Faithy’s Shillelagh' by Kathleen Hastings, Queensland, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
34. 'Fitting In' by Cynthia Bolton, Queensland, Australia
35. 'Courageous Carl' by Rosalie Enstrom, Queensland, Australia
36. 'Courage' by Rosalie Enstrom, Queensland, Australia
37. '21 Days' by Georgios Goris, Victoria, Australia
38. 'Ailish and the Phoneline' by Bridget Hertaeg, Victoria, Australia
39. 'Cover Talk' by Maggie Veness, Tasmania, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
40. 'A Primordial Struggle' by Daniel Yuen, New South Wales, Australia
41. 'The Dragon Egg' by Owen Huang, 11-years-old, New South Wales, Australia
42. 'One Boy, One Planet' by Sol Zivkovic-Kennedy, 11-years-old, South Australia
43. 'Bravery is Not Blind' by Artemis Langlois-Euripides, 14-years-old, Western Australia – Short-listed (Junior)
44. 'The Last Teacher in Fairfield' by Charlotte He, 9-years-old, New South Wales, Australia – Short-listed (Junior)
45. 'Curing Kanser' by Olivia Pryor, 12-years-old, New South Wales, Australia
46. 'The Storm We All Go Through' by Georgia Fenwick, New South Wales, Australia
47. 'Mouse Holes' by Devika Warrier, 10-years-old, New South Wales, Australia – Short-listed (Junior)

203 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2022