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Grim Short Story Competition;

Entries are open from 24th of September and close on 22nd of October. To submit go to www.danmurphys.com.au and submit your story as a review of a product. Be creative ! Screenshot or send us a link once your entry is live and send to [email protected] or tweet to @beyondzeropod #grim

10 stories will be shortlisted and read on the podcast. The winner will receive a signed copy of Grimmish. 

Here is an example; 

https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_73011/mcwilliam-s-royal-reserve-dry-apera (see review titled nothing on earth)

Michael Winkler 

Top ten 

1.  Moby Dick by Herman Melville

2.  The Outsider by Albert Camus

3.  The Sweet Science by AJ Liebling

4.  The Unquiet Grave by Palinurus (Cyril Connolly)

5.  If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him! The pilgrimage of psychotherapy patients by Sheldon B. Kopp

6.  Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

7.  Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

8.  A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews

9. Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin

10.  The Vivisector by Patrick White/The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser

Gateway book:

-  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig

-  Plus Bony books (Arthur Upfield), Agatha Christie books

Recent pleasures:

-  My Duck Is Not Your Duck by Deborah Eisenberg

-  Tell Me Why by Archie Roach

-  It gets me home, this curving track by Ian Penman

-  Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison

-  Blacktop Wasteland by SA Crosby

-  The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

-  Shirl by Wayne Marshall

-  501 Minutes to Christ by Poe Ballantine

Links;

https://www.michaelwinkler.com.au