Bent Not Broken: Ten Years of Creative Writing from Canterbury-Bankstown

by Winnie Dunn, Michael Mohammed Ahmad (Editor), Julie Koh (Editor)

A collection of award-winning and highly commended short stories and poems from the Canterbury-Bankstown region.
Place, Race, Bent Not Broken is a ten year showcase of award-winning stories by young people from the backyards of South Western Sydney. Featuring prose and poetry by Donna Wilson, Christine Wu, Anneliese Joy, Seini Fuko, Mohamad Al-Abdallah, Frances An, Rebecca Nguyen, Sarah Hoang, Peviula Taotua, Duc Luu, Tiana Munro, Angeliki Georgakopoulou, Indiana Dinh, Lydia Villavarayen, Christophine Demetrios, Dan Nguyen, Amir Harris, Daniel Kabbara, Yoosuf Mohamed, Maria Rulloda, Danielle Nguyen, Alex Driessen, Filip Stempien, Mehek Fatiha Rahman, Ushna Bashir, Peta Murphy, Brooke Mansell, Isabella Whitcher, Mary Tran, Anita Grassy, Sheza Khan, Talia Walker, Amanda Yeo, Luke Lancaster, Rayanne Elhgar, Moslimah Zoud, Dorothy Kamal, Daniel Bishara, Paul Boustani, Rebekah Bijkovska and Arthur Wang.

174 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 14, 2022

About the author

Winnie Dunn is a writer of Tongan descent from Mount Druitt, Western Sydney. She is the general manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement. Her work has been published in Meanjin, The Guardian and Sydney Review of Books. She is also the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies, most notably Another Australia (Affirm Press, 2022). She was the recipient of a 2023 Australia Council for the Arts grant. Dirt Poor Islanders (Hachette) is her debut novel.