LiteraryMinded says, ”This is an absorbing novel and obviously well deserved its Vogel win. It should appeal to most sensibilities, old and young. There’s some resemblance to Charlotte Wood or Alex Miller, with a little more youthful swagger.”

Read the complete book review on LiteraryMinded here (stay tuned for an interview with Stefan) and you can get yourself a copy of I dream of Magda here.

Be the first to remix a brand new short story from Stefan called The New Cage for your chance to be published alongside him in the anthology.

“I owned my first budgie when I lived in the first house…”

Cate is highly regarded as a short story writer, and has many major prizes to her credit including winning The Age Short Story Competition (twice!), the HQ-Sceptre Short Story Award, and the University of Canberra Short Story Prize. Her stories have been widely anthologised in Australia and Cold Snap appeared in The New Yorker magazine.

Cate has described her new remixable work Renovator’s Heaven as ”a sort of speculative, open-ended, little bit supernatural little bit horror short story”.

To read more of Cate’s short stories get yourself a copy of her wonderful collection Dark Roots.

It’s a longer story than Emily’s but don’t be scared off by the word count. It’s written in two parts with an interesting time lapse inbetween so there’s lots of room for playing with structure. Think flashbacks!

Or try putting the whole story through one of the online cut up machines we blogged about. We used the lazarus corporation’s Text Mixing Desk to come up with our own rastafarian prude remix using the “rasta rack” module combined with the “expletive deleted” filter.

Damian is the author of the excellent novel Luck in the Greater West, which won him the ABC Fiction Award. As one of the judges commented, “Luck in the Greater West offers a compelling insight into a world Australian literature doesn’t often visit.”

You can get yourself a copy of Damian’s novel here or do as his latest character Dara would and track him down on MySpace.

To make things easy this is a very very short story, a work of flash fiction by Emily Maguire, titled Cherished.

Emily is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and journalist. Her latest book is Princesses and Pornstars: Sex + Power + Identity. Her novels are Taming the Beast and The Gospel According to Luke.

So get cutting, pasting, tweaking, twisting, shuffling, adding and then republish your work on the site for others to remix.

Just email your remix to anthology@creativecommons.org.au.