Alice Bishop’s debut collection is A Constant Hum. Across nearly fifty stories Bishop explores responses from communities and individuals in times of bushfire. The collection is in many ways a response to the Black Saturday bushfires that devastated Victoria in February 2009. The collection in A Constant Hum is not simply a retelling though, or even a linear account of the events of those fires. Within the stories Bishop explores the myriad lives that were impacted and gives the reader an opportunity to sit beside and perhaps feel and understand some of the terrible and incredible events.