Short but Not Sweet

Mariana Enriquez was born in Argentina in 1973. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and the collections of short fiction, Things We Lost in Fire, A Sunny Place or Shady People and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Her most recent book is the travelogue Somebody is walking on your grave.

Ingrid Horrocks’s fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, published in Australia by UQP, won New Zealand’s premier prize for fiction in 2026. Her other books include the eco-memoir, Where We Swim, and two poetry collections. She has a PhD from Princeton and teaches at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington.

Alex Cothren is a lecturer in creative writing at Flinders University, on Kaurna Yerta. He has won the Carmel Bird, Griffith Review Emerging Voices and Peter Carey awards for short fiction. His story collection, Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere, is out through Pink Shorts Press.

Gillian Hagenus is a writer and researcher living and working in Meanjin, Brisbane. Gillian specialises in (obsesses over) Australian Suburban Gothic fiction and is a current PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. Her debut short story collection Common Places was published in 2026 by UQP.

Terri-Jane is a reader and writer, and the owner of independent bookshop, Cursive Knives.