Resilience: a celebration of poetry, fiction and essays

by Michelle Cahill (Editor), Monique Nair (Editor), Anthea Yang (Editor)

To celebrate its 15th year Mascara Literary Review presents their first print anthology, featuring writing that addresses and explores the theme of resilience through fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. In this anthology, writers explore the multiplicity of resilience – rebellious and experimental, paving the way to reclaim, rewrite and amplify. Resilience offers a futuristic and promising gaze into the future: What does it look like? How did we get here? What have we lost and/or inherited?

288 pages, Paperback

Published November 16, 2022

About the author

Michelle Cahill is of Indian heritage and lives in Sydney. Her short stories Letter to Pessoa (Giramondo, 2016) won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing and was on several shortlists. Her novel Daisy and Woolf (Hachette, 2022) was longlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the Voss Literary Prize. She is a Hedberg Writer in Residence at the University of Tasmania.

Reviews

[Rhonda · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolutely beautiful book with a wide range of different voices writing in different formats staying true to the title. All very different but not one failed to express resilience in the face of a situational force or barrier or social, economic, psychological or political reality that threatened to overwhelm. Or in some cases had overwhelmed to a large extent but within which a central core of self, though bowed, remained intact and still facing forward. The areas where this resilience existed was widely varied, from deeply painful affecting the whole person body and soul, to only part, but in every case that particular human quality called resilience shone clear. Loved it and though I own too many books already, many waiting their turn to be read, I need to own a copy.