Click here to listen to Chris Womersley, author of Cairo, Bereft and The Low Road, discussing Portable Curiosities and Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women on Triple R Breakfasters this morning.  

Nic Low, author of Arms Race, was kind enough to give me a copy of his launch speech from the Portable Curiosities launch at Readings Carlton. * Good evening and welcome. Thanks for coming. Thanks to Readings and Alan and Kill Your Darlings for having us. My name’s Nic Low. Like Julie I’m a writer of satirical short stories. […]

Very excited to have a short story in HEAT. HEAT is one of three new anthologies – HEAT, FLESH & TRASH – from cult Malaysian publisher, Fixi Novo, showcasing Southeast Asian urban fiction. Edited by Khairani Barokka and Ng Yi-Sheng, HEAT also features stories by Gabriela Lee, Zed Adam Idris, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Rewat Panpipat (translated by Marcel Barang), […]

An advance review is in for Portable Curiosities: 4.5 stars in Books + Publishing. ‘Armed with an uncanny ability to capture the zeitgeist of the time—whether it be contemporary society’s obsession with foodie culture or institutionalised racism and misogyny—Australian writer Julie Koh’s darkly satirical and convulsively funny short-story collection Portable Curiosities is as unsettling as it is edifying.’ […]