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Empty Sky: UTS Writers' Anthology 2020
Empty Sky, which draws its title from Sylvia Plath's 'I talk to God but the sky is empty', features the top emerging writers from UTS' creative writing program and showcases a range of extraordinary works. This edition is introduced by writer, editor and activist Bri Lee, the award-winning author of Eggshell Skull.
The 34th UTS Writers' Anthology: the 2020 collection of some of the best new writing - previously unpublished - from a student body with an incredible voice.
The 34th UTS Writers' Anthology: the 2020 collection of some of the best new writing - previously unpublished - from a student body with an incredible voice.
295 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2020
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December 30, 2020
‘We had it on good authority that we could not die here, only depart.’
The stories within the 2020 UTS Writer’s Anthology seems to cry out in unison to whomever was reading and listening, crying out to all of the senses. The stories seemed to wake the senses in very different ways in order to conjure up feeling and emotion. The jade dress, the white, pearl bone of the jewfish, the winding knitted and crocheted clothes, scrabble letters, empty bottles, the world on mute, an escape from the end. These stories were written in 2019 before the pandemic. To read them as this year crawls to an end, the stories reflect the year quite well. A few focused on the smaller things, others on the things that mattered most, and some described the details that often get lost in the haze and fog. There are always things that fill the void, and fill life up, even when things seems lost and empty. It is finding these elements that build a realisation that the sky may be empty yet not any clearer, and maybe we just have to be okay with that.
The stories within the 2020 UTS Writer’s Anthology seems to cry out in unison to whomever was reading and listening, crying out to all of the senses. The stories seemed to wake the senses in very different ways in order to conjure up feeling and emotion. The jade dress, the white, pearl bone of the jewfish, the winding knitted and crocheted clothes, scrabble letters, empty bottles, the world on mute, an escape from the end. These stories were written in 2019 before the pandemic. To read them as this year crawls to an end, the stories reflect the year quite well. A few focused on the smaller things, others on the things that mattered most, and some described the details that often get lost in the haze and fog. There are always things that fill the void, and fill life up, even when things seems lost and empty. It is finding these elements that build a realisation that the sky may be empty yet not any clearer, and maybe we just have to be okay with that.
January 23, 2021
The stories and poetry in this anthology cover a very wide spectrum of subject matter from the dystopian through dysfunctional relationships to the tragic. They pinpoint both what is important in life, and the trivia that makes each life different. A collection to turn to again once the first impact has been absorbed.
May 2, 2024
Great collection of short stories, poems and other material in this anthology book from UTS writers.
Some really interesting tales in there, some which would have been ever better if given the opportunity to be fleshed out a little more.
Some really interesting tales in there, some which would have been ever better if given the opportunity to be fleshed out a little more.
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