Collisions

Fictions of the Future

Leah Jing McIntosh

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Published: 03/11/2020
ISBN: 9780648795186
Genre: Literary Anthology
Pages: 168
RRP: $29.99

Collisions

Fictions of the Future

Leah Jing McIntosh

Longlisted, Australian Book Design Award – Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover, 2021

‘Harmonious but discordant, language stretched and challenged: each story a container for separate heartbreaks and epiphanies.’ Jamie Marina Lau

‘LIMINAL beautifully and deftly showcases players in the Australian arts scene that are so often overlooked, but arguably constitute its beating heart. What a goddamn joy they’re now doing the same for fiction.’ Benjamin Law

Experimental, genre-bending, lucid stories of the future from the inaugural LIMINAL Fiction Prize longlist.

What does the future hold? A tense dinner party is held amid an impending climate catastrophe. A father leases his backyard out to a cemetery. Activists plan an attack on ASIO drones in a shock-jock run government. A voyeur finds herself caught in time. Featuring both emerging and established writers of colour, this collection showcases some of the best work that Australian literature has to offer.

These stories are sites for collisions: against eurocentric ideals, against narrow concepts of excellence, against stagnant ideas of the world to come. But collisions also manifest in the way our lives come into contact with others, how our pasts shift against the present, and how our imaginations sit against our realities.

Collisions is necessary reading for the future of fiction, and the future of our shared world. 

STORIES BY:
BRYANT APOLONIO, KASUMI BORCZYK, CLAIRE CAO, CLAIRE G. COLEMAN, ELIZABETH FLUX, JASON GRAY, EDA GÜNAYDΙN, NAIMA IBRAHIM, CB MAKO, SUMUDU SAMARAWICKRAMA, MYKAELA SAUNDERS, BOBUQ SAYED, VICTOR CHRISNAA SENTHINATHAN, MISBAH WOLF, HANNAH WU, JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU

 

‘This is something of a first: voices from the other side of the racial imaginary coming to life with surprising insight, authenticity and innovation.’ Brian Castro

‘It excites me to read genre work that still speaks to the anxieties and pain of the subject position – whether that be first nations, diaspora, queer or gender diverse. The content in this publication represents a step forward for minority writing in the Australian literary landscape.’ Peter Polites

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Leah Jing McIntosh

Leah Jing McIntosh

Leah Jing McIntosh

Leah Jing McIntosh is the founding editor of LIMINAL magazine. Profiling and elevating the work of Asian-Australian creatives, LIMINAL was created in response to a need for greater diversity in the arts.

Since 2017, Leah has published over 150 long-form interviews by and for Asian-Australian creatives. She has curated collections of art and writing, and co-edited Comic Sans, an anthology of comics by writers of colour. As part of LIMINAL’s focus on building community, Leah also curates poetry and performance nights. She has collaborated with The New York Times, Melbourne Writers Festival, Australian National University, amongst other organisations, to promote the work of Asian-Australian creatives.

In 2019, Leah founded the LIMINAL Fiction Prize, the first Australian short fiction prize solely dedicated to writers of colour. Collisions, a forthcoming anthology of the longlisted pieces, will be published in November 2020, with Pantera Press.

Leah has written for The Saturday Paper, Meanjin Quarterly, and Archer Magazine, amongst others, and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne. She has been a Victorian nominee for Young Australian of the Year, named in Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30: Class of 2020, and Asialink’s 40 under 40 most influential Asian-Australians.

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“This is an anthology brimming with intention and self-awareness, one in conversation with the Australian literary landscape in what it includes as much as in what it excludes”

Reading Women Podcast (October 2020)  

“Almost every writer in this anthology deserves their own book. And almost every reader in this country needs to acquaint themselves with their words.”

Jessie Tu, The Age (November, 2020)  
“A beautiful new collection of words has arrived to remind us of their enduring power and much-needed solace … [Reading Collisions] feels personal—like tracing the experiences of people you know, the family you haven’t seen, looking into the spaces that are so often relegated to the margins.”
Monisha Rudhran, marie claire (November, 2020)  

“Collisions is full of humour, pathos, anger, warmth, and compassion. Above all, it is full of outstanding writing.”

Tracey Korsten, Glam Adelaide (November, 2020)  

“a complex and enriching contribution to the canon of contemporary Australian literature”

Monikka Eliah, Kill Your Darlings  

“This astute collection of stories expands and enriches the canon of important Australian voices.”

The Age (December, 2020)  

“a brilliant collection of short stories, giving flesh to various futures.”

Canberra Times (December, 2020)