It’s All Connected: Feminist Fiction and Poetry

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Pauline Hopkins (editor)

Feminists have long known that it’s all connected. The stories, the families, the country, the River.In this anthology, poets and short story writers create worlds with words. This book includes stories that draw on mythic traditions rewritten for our time. There are thieves, grandmothers, teenagers breaking out, dark caves to explore and real estate to sell; there are mysteries from the grave, experiments that go wrong, road trips, a circus, an opera, families that break and families that hold together; there are birds and animals and babies, and there is the pandemic. There is stillness and movement; closeness and distance.

This eclectic range of authors brings their unique perspectives to storytelling as they each grapple to understand the past and meet the challenges ahead, daring to share their joy and pain, their fear and anger, their hopes and disappointments. These are women who dare to remember, to claim their own stories and to wonder what may have been.

Memory’s a burden, forgetting even more so.
—‘Lost Bird’ by Merlinda Bobis

All the stories I can think of turn out to be full of traps for the unsuspecting.
—‘Keep Telling’ by Marion Molteno

DECEMBER 2022 | ISBN 9781925950564 | Paperback | 248 pages | 228 mm x 152 mm

Pauline Hopkins (editor)

Feminists have long known that it’s all connected. The stories, the families, the country, the River.In this anthology, poets and short story writers create worlds with words. This book includes stories that draw on mythic traditions rewritten for our time. There are thieves, grandmothers, teenagers breaking out, dark caves to explore and real estate to sell; there are mysteries from the grave, experiments that go wrong, road trips, a circus, an opera, families that break and families that hold together; there are birds and animals and babies, and there is the pandemic. There is stillness and movement; closeness and distance.

This eclectic range of authors brings their unique perspectives to storytelling as they each grapple to understand the past and meet the challenges ahead, daring to share their joy and pain, their fear and anger, their hopes and disappointments. These are women who dare to remember, to claim their own stories and to wonder what may have been.

Memory’s a burden, forgetting even more so.
—‘Lost Bird’ by Merlinda Bobis

All the stories I can think of turn out to be full of traps for the unsuspecting.
—‘Keep Telling’ by Marion Molteno

DECEMBER 2022 | ISBN 9781925950564 | Paperback | 248 pages | 228 mm x 152 mm

 
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Reviews

On International Women’s Day 2023, Gina Mercer spoke to Fiona Batholomaeus at RTR FM about writing, feminist publishing and the anthology It’s All Connected. Listen Now.

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Endorsements

A bold and powerful anthology offering poetry and prose from a diversity of new and established women writers, It’s All Connected ripples and blazes across a universe of topics, a galaxy of tones. Deftly constructed, moving from ancient myth to present day narratives, from pre-history to future worlds, this book arrives as an elegant feminist fanfare.
—Carmel Bird

A feisty, vigorous and eclectic volume; feminism is alive and well as a creative force ...
—Gail Jones

A wonderfully rich and diverse expression of full throttle womanhood.
—Amanda Lohrey

Table of Contents

Introduction
Pauline Hopkins

1. Agamemnon’s Return from Troy | Jena Woodhouse

2. Ulyssea | Susan Hawthorne

3. now he dreams the Sirens silent | Marion May Campbell

4. The End of the Mountains | Aviva Xue

5. Suburu | Jordie Albiston

6. The Lonely Road | Robyn Bishop

7. It’s All Connected | Diane Bell

8. Christmas Hills Rhapsody | Sandy Jeffs

9. Kalifornia, her color | Usha Akella

10. The Child Thief | Bulbul Sharma

11. The Thief Danced On | Gena Corea

12. Apostrophe to Anger | Pramila Venkateswaran

13. The Thickness of Choice | Fiona Place

14. The Treehouse | Jacque Duffy

15. Keep Telling | Marion Molteno

16. My Cup Runneth Over | Anne Ostby

17. Skoteino Cave | Coleen Clare

18. Coming of Age, Ready or Not | Laurie Ross Trott

19. Elaine | Patricia Sykes

20. Real Estate | Cheryl Adam

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21. I Don’t Post on Facebook | Colleen Higgs

22. After Dinner | Angela Costi

23. Three Photographs | Carmel Macdonald Grahame

24. Where the Body is Buried | Lucy Sussex

25. Souvenirs | Carol Lefevre

26. Being Dolphins | Mary Goslett

27. About Geese | Suniti Namjoshi

28. The Cry | Renate Klein

29. Birds | Jordie Albiston

30. Lost Bird | Merlinda Bobis

31. The Poet | Lizz Murphy

32. Educating Nanette | Susan Midalia

33. enduring form of women’s piracy | Gina Mercer

34. Aloha Ukelele | Cath Koa Dunsford

35. Paige | Pauline Hopkins

36. Morundah (or Lunatic Fringe) | Kerryn Higgs

37. Alive | Sue Ingleton

38. we come to the light | berni janssen 

39. Get Back In | Angela Buckingham

40. Wimmera | Jordie Albiston