Soak is the thirty-seventh volume of the UTS Writers’ Anthology series from the Writing and Publishing program at the University of Technology Sydney.
It continues the legacy of outstanding writing across fiction, non-fiction and poetry, ranging from the deeply moving to the laugh-out-loud funny and all the spaces in between.
Soak draws on authors from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. It reflects a variety of observations, concerns and desires that have come to the fore in our current climate and seeks to make sense of a rapidly changing world.
Drenched with a recurring motif of water, Soak ranges from calmly immersive to the precipice of overwhelming but offers the buoyancy of hope. From underwater waterslides to dogs in space, internal struggles to climbing mountains, it brims with ecocentrism, humour, creativity and resilience.
This year’s foreword is composed by celebrated writer and literary critic Beejay Silcox, whose cultural commentary and literary criticism regularly appears in national arts publications, and is increasingly finding an international audience. Her award-winning short stories have been published at home and abroad, and have been selected for a number of Australian anthologies. Beejay writes of Soak:
For four decades, the UTS Anthology has fostered and celebrated writerly ambition. This new volume is steeped in it.
Soak is the product of immeasurable hard work and dedication from writers and the student-led editorial committee, UTS staff and the team at Brio Books.
2023 UTS Anthology Editorial Committee
2023 UTS Anthology Contributors
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