ACE III

<p>The contributions to ACE III are diverse in form and theme. As a composite picture the collection represents an expansive vision for short-form writing. We include work by authors from diverse cultural and geographical locations including - Australia: Gadigal Country Dharawal Country Wodi Wodi Country Wurundjeri land Naarm Jinibara Country Whadjuk Country Turrbal & Yuggera land Ngunnawal Country as well as Dallas (USA) Mexico City Greece Norway Tbilisi: Georgia NYC Chennai: India Singapore and Saudi Arabia. </p><p>The authors examine the conundrum and contradiction of human experience through carefully crafted detail. The brevity of short-form writing makes it an apt vessel for capturing the haunting incompleteness of human experience. Through flash and traditional length short stories creative nonfiction memoir and hybrid forms there is a compelling ebb and tow of ideas as focalised through highly idiosyncratic registers. The authors cultivate narrative detail with intuitive hands and minds fashioning abstracted realities that linger well beyond the final lines of the text. The contributions leave the reader reeling asking how it is possible that story-work can enter our affect cycle as if it were lived experience.</p>