Bushfire Anthologies

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Oz is Burning

Firestorm Sounds

While the world around me is on fire, my story is about trying to cope with chronic pain and deal with other life-threatening symptoms triggered and exacerbated by the sounds of essential fire-fighting and life-saving equipment.

Even after the fires are out, the land still suffers.  Suzanne Newnham’s strange look at how a person who hears fire perceives the conflagration, this anthology demonstrates the agony, but it also shows bits of dark humor and hope among the devastation. B Cubed Press will donate to WIRES, NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service Inc.
Phyllis Irene Radford

 

 

Beneath an Ominous Sky

Eurobodalla-Fellowship of Australian Writers anthology of stories and poems from the 'Black Summer' bushfires on the NSW South Coast and nearby regions.

Includes my stories and poem:
Surrounded; A Year On; Hope? Too Soon?

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Phoenix: The Rise of a Resilient Community   

In the summer of 2019–20, bushfires brought new challenges to my fragile health.

I experienced mixed feelings about seeing the potentially life-saving planes while at the same time wanting them to stop so that I could breathe easier, and for my pain to go away. As the fires edged closer, I thought, ‘How am I not to become an even greater burden – physically and mentally ... Next I thought, I write my magazine column on coping with chronic pain – but how can I write about that when I can’t cope? I knew I was on my own and needed new strategies.