Scribe is thrilled to announce that we will be publishing another anthology of short stories, New Australian Stories 2.0, again edited by our fiction acquisitions editor, Aviva Tuffield. New Australian Stories 2.0 will be published in February 2011.

As with the prototype, New Australian Stories, the anthology will feature established stars of the short-story firmament alongside new and emerging ones.

Our friends at Varuna, the Writers’ House, will be running the Varuna/NAS national short story competition, with the winners (judged by Peter Bishop, Cate Kennedy and Aviva Tuffield) to be published in New Australian Stories 2.0, and/or to be awarded a week-long residency at Varuna to work with Cate Kennedy, one of Australia’s finest writers of short stories.

Varuna have extended their deadline for the Varuna/NAS national short story competition to 30 July 2010.

Submissions to the Varuna/NAS competition open on 1 June and close on 30 July. Visit the Varuna website for more details: www.varuna.com.au