Review by Robert Goodman Ryan O’Neill is a lover of words, and he knows how to use them. The Weight of a Human Heart, his new collection of short stories, …
ENRICHMENT AND ABSORPTION: an interview with Ryan O’Neill
LES ZIGOMANIS Tell me about your collection. RYAN O’NEILL The Weight of a Human Heart is a collection of stories set in different parts of the world and told in …
VOX: RYAN O’NEILL
Vox: RYAN O’NEILL The Verity La Forum was conducted by Alec Patric from July 2011 to December 2011 Forum Question: A New Archaeology I have to admit that I don’t …
The Chinese Lesson (Ryan O’Neill)
In the park, the old women were walking backwards. Watt waited beneath the enormous statue of a twenty metre rifle grasped in a clenched stone fist. It was as if …
A First Draft (Ryan O'Neill)
Beginning- thief/work/wife [“She was always heavily made up, like the body in a casket that had been in some terrible accident.” She is aware of thefts. Main character- “All …
TEARING THROUGH THE ENVELOPE: an interview with Ryan O’Neill
Ryan O’Neill has won the Hal Porter and Roland Robinson awards and got third in the most recent Age Short Story Competition. His stories have appeared in Sleepers, Best Australian …