Meet Me at the Intersection by Rebecca Lim

The urgency of youth permeates: many writers revisit childhood trauma, as Yvette Walker does in her gripping Telephone, a conversation with her thirteen-year-old closeted lesbian self. Authenticity is on every page: Kyle Lynch’s voice is raw and real in Dear Mate, the story of an Aboriginal man looking for work while Amra Pajalic’s Bosnian migrant tries and fails to negotiate suburban Melbourne with devastating honesty in School of Hard Knocks. This collection showcases stories by First Nations people, people living with a disability, People of Colour, and LGBTIQA+ individuals. This powerful anthology of short stories, memoir and poetry is an important and compelling contribution to the ‘Own Voices’ literary movement in Australia. Her novels have been translated into German, French, Turkish, Portuguese and Polish.Author: edited by Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina Rebecca's work has also been longlisted for the Gold Inky Award and the David Gemmell Legend Award.

Rebecca is the author of eighteen books, and has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award, Aurealis Award and Davitt Award for YA. Rebecca Lim is a writer, illustrator and lawyer based in Melbourne. Ambelin is a prolific commentator on diversity in children's literature and a law academic at the University of Western Australia. Her books have been published in the United States, South Korea and China. She is the author and illustrator of a number of awardwinning picture books as well as a YA dystopian series. Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal writer and illustrator who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. With works by Ellen van Neerven, Graham Akhurst, Kyle Lynch, Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Olivia Muscat, Mimi Lee, Jessica Walton, Kelly Gardiner, Rafeif Ismail, Yvette Walker, Amra Pajalic, Omar Sakr, Wendy Chen, Jordi Kerr, Rebecca Lim, Michelle Aung Thin and Alice Pung, this anthology is designed to challenge the dominant, homogenous story of privilege and power that rarely admits 'outsider' voices. The focus of the anthology is on Australian life as seen through each author's unique, and seldom heard, perspective. Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability.

Meet Me at the Intersection by Rebecca Lim