Australian Short Story Festival

The Australian Short Story Festival is BACK for 2026, to celebrate short stories in written and spoken forms.

Discuss the highs and low of releasing a debut collection of short stories with Gillian Hagenus & more!

The Australian Short Story Festival was founded by Anna Solding of MidnightSun Publishing and Caroline Wood of Margaret River Press, the Festival connects audiences with short story writers, storytellers, publishers, and editors of literary magazines. It brings together readers and local, Australian and international short story writers.

As the first national event to focus exclusively on the short story form, the Australian Short Story Festival offers a unique contribution to the nation’s literary culture, as well as a timely response to the current resurgence of this aesthetically exacting narrative form.

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