The Wayward Sky: New Writing from Western Sydney

The Wayward Sky gathers the work of storytellers, essayists, poets, novelists, screenwriters and journalists" twelve young writers from Western Sydney who forged a precious series of conversations in the virtual rooms of The Writing Zone. As participants in a new mentoring program run by the Writing and Society Research Centre and the Sydney Review of Books, they read each other's work with respect and care while writing under different skies. Although their cultural stories are far-reaching and diverse, these authors share a common reality of living through seismic shifts and forging proximity despite the pressures of distancing. The Wayward Sky reimagines an array of places that are both sky-like and transformative: atmospheres and thresholds, movement between countries and suburbs, nightfall as it magically reinterprets everyday events, and weathering difficult times.