interview by Simon Sellars ‘Arnold Zable: Hazards of the Game’: originally published in Subterrain magazine #1, December 2005. Arnold Zable is a Melbourne storyteller who writes about memory and history, displacement and community, the experience of the Jewish diaspora, Aboriginal issues and Indigenous education, and the multiplicity of cultures within Australia. In 2002, in conjunction [...]

Allan and Kevin. Photo courtesy Age newspaper. In 2006 SBS television produced a documentary series based on the Age newspaper’s ‘Two of Us’ column. I was very flattered that my contribution, below, was the only Melbourne story to be filmed. Interviews by Simon Sellars ‘The Two of Us: Kevin Brophy and Allan Martin’. Originally published [...]

by Simon Sellars ‘Melbourne Small Press: Maybe Next Year’. Originally published in overland magazine, Summer 2004. At this year’s Melbourne Writers’ Festival, John Murray appreciated the fact that short stories are a perfect barometer for measuring fresh literary talent, Eva Sallis likened short stories to “tantric sex in five minutes” and Frank Moorhouse bemoaned the [...]

reviews by Simon Sellars Originally published in Orb Speculative Fiction #0, Spring-Summer 1999. Robotomy by Andrés Vaccari. Saturn Press, $12.95. ISBN 0 646 32003 3 Abaddon #2 edited by Andrés Vaccari. Saturn Press, $6.95. ISSN 1441-046X. Robotomy In the 1960s, Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds magazine ushered in the “New Wave” of science fiction. The stories [...]

Originally published in Abaddon # 2, Autumn 1999. THE FOOTBALL FACTORY Jonathan Cape ISBN 0-224-04302-1 reviewed by Simon Sellars The Football Factory, John King’s début novel, charts the lives of a group of football hooligans in present-day London, England. It has been re-issued to coincide with the release of England Away, King’s most recent book [...]