WELCOME

Welcome to this selection of short stories by Michael Small, an English writer who has been resident in Australia since 1972.

Michael Small was born in Croydon, Surrey, England in 1943. He attended Springpark Primary School, Shirley and Trinity School of John Whitgift, both situated in Croydon. His tertiary educations was as follows:

BA University of London – English, French, History

PGCE Institute of Education, University of London

TEFL Royal Society of Arts, London

BEd Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia – Film Theory, Film History, Creative Education

MA University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada – Creative Writing and Literature

An English teacher by profession, he has taught in England, Sweden, Canada and Australia.

Since 1973 he has had many poems, short stories and articles published in Australia, Canada, England, India and United States. His four published books are as follows:

Her Natural Life and Other Stories, Tamarillo Publishing; Melbourne, 1988

Films: A Resource Book for Studying Film as Text (with Brian Keyte), Longman Cheshire; Melbourne, 1994

Unleashed: A History of Footscray Football Club (with John Lack, Chris McConville and Damien Wright), Aus Sport Enterprises; Footscray, Victoria, 1996

Urangeline: Voices of Carey 1923-1997, Playwright Publishing; Sydney, 1997


I hope that you can find something to enjoy amongst these thirty-odd stories.

You may like to read some of Michael’s poems which can be found on www.issuu.com/michaelsmall

Shaped for Sportive Tricks features several comedic and ‘shaped’ poems.

Slanged is a series ofsixfy poems about the convict era from 1712 in London to 1860 in Williamstown, Victoria, making use of mainly historical characters and period slang. Several poetic forms are used.