The Furphy Literary Awards

Short stories have a way of encapsulating the world around us and within us. While storytelling is a universal thing, it’s the images in these sixteen stories that evoke a place and its people. Dead bats hanging on a wire, sport on the TV, figurines by a bed, teacups of yore and reusable coffee cups of now, the three of...

The Furphy Anthology 2021 contains an incredible eclectic mix of sixteen stories that show Australian storytelling is alive and kicking. This collection includes stories from writers such as Thomas Alan, Verity Borthwick, Chris Fontana, Lee Frank, Keren Heenan, Michelle Prak and Andrew Roff. All the authors take you on journeys to places you know, or think you know. But more...

This edition features work from: Kathryn Lomer Jane Downing Paulette Gittins Elizabeth Walton Robert Johnson Kathy Sharpe Paulette Gittins Amy St Lawrence Rowena Harding-Smith Lesley Boland Christine Fontana Emma Ashmere Thomas Allan Phillip M. Everett Deborah May Minh Hiền Joseph Furphy wrote an Australian literary classic, Such is Life, in 1903, under the pen name of ‘Tom Collins’, slang for...

The best of the best! We are overjoyed to present our sixth edition of the Furphy Anthology, comprising short stories selected by a well-versed panel of judges. Chosen from more than 750 entrants in the Furphy Literary Award 2025, this anthology is a celebration of the most promising writers in Australia this year. The tales are about us and all...