We All Need a Witness is the 22nd year of this anthology release from the University of Technology, Sydney, complementing an impressive and enduring collection that has launched the careers of many talented new Australian authors.
This is one of the longest running university collections in the country. (It has not been consecutively published over the years, however.) Many Australian authors have gone on to publish novels after their inclusion in the anthology. Notables include Ross Duncan, whose novel All Those Bright Crosses was published in 2007; Bernard Cohen, whose novel The Blindman's Hat won the 1997 Australian/Vogel Literary Award; Vanessa Berry, who published Strawberry Hills Forever, a collection of work taken from her zines, last year; Pip Newling, who published her non-fiction memoir Knockabout Girl in 2007; and from last year's collection, Isabelle Li's story A Chinese Affair was selected from the anthology for inclusion in the Best Australian Stories 2007.
