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BONSAI
Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand is edited by Michelle Elvy, Frankie McMillan and James Norcliffe, published by Canterbury University Press, 2018.
Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand is edited by Michelle Elvy, Frankie McMillan and James Norcliffe, published by Canterbury University Press, 2018.
Slippery, and exciting … The stories come at you directly, and then turn askance, and then slap you in the face’ Allan Drew
Bonsai brings together a pioneering collection of flash fiction and associated forms (prose poetry and haibun) from 165 writers in Aotearoa New Zealand, along with intriguing essays on this increasingly popular genre. In 200 small stories of no more than 300 words, where the translucent boundaries between prose and poetry are often transgressed, we discover a vast array of human experience.