MANOA online v. 3

Where the Rivers Meet, the winter 2006 issue of MANOA, includes award-winning fiction by Alexis Wright and Roger McDonald. Wright is represented by an excerpt from Carpentaria, the novel that won the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s most prestigious literary prize. A writer, researcher, and social commentator, she is one of Australia’s best-known indigenous writers and is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

“Bullock Run,” Roger McDonald’s contribution to Where the Rivers Meet, was recently selected for inclusion in the 2008 edition of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, the prestigious American anthology series edited by Laura Furman. McDonald is the author of two books of nonfiction, Shearers’ Motel and The Tree in Changing Light, and of seven novels, 1915, Slipstream, Rough Wallaby, The Slap, Water Man, Mr Darwin’s Shooter, and The Ballad of Desmond Kale, which won the 2006 Miles Franklin Award. He lives near Braidwood, on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales.