Other Stories

Wayne Macauley’s Other Stories is a much-awaited collection. Here at last Macauley’s peculiar take on the world is gathered together in short stories, satires, fables and anecdotes. Many are set in the hinterland of the outer suburbs where big cars, big driveways, big houses and big skies make small people feel lost and strange. This familiar world seems eerie, like a Jeffrey Smart painting. His yarns of the margins are at the centre of our culture.

Macauley’s short fiction has appeared for over a decade in our most prestigious literary magazines, including Meanjin, Overland, Westerly, Island and Griffith Review. As novelist and playwright he is one of our most original and challenging writers and a winner of The Age Short Story Competition. His two corrosive novels, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe and Caravan Story, won critical acclaim.