Firelight (2023)

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An imprisoned man with strange visions writes letters to his sister. A controversial business tycoon leaves his daughter a mysterious inheritance. A child is haunted by a green man with a message about the origins of their planet. In this striking collection of stories, the award-winning John Morrissey investigates colonialism and identity without ever losing sight of his characters' humanity. Brilliantly imagined and masterfully observed, Firelight marks the debut of a writer we will be reading for decades to come. John Morrissey is a Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent. His work has been published in Overland , Voiceworks , Meanjin and the anthology This All Come Back Now . He was the winner of the 2020 Boundless Mentorship and the runner-up for the 2018 Nakata Brophy Prize.