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Foreword by Katherine Brabon

An alienated daughter reconnects with her mother. A woman questions her reality as she struggles to recognise herself. An awkward car ride home from the airport leads to reconciliation. A family enjoys a lavish meal together.

From the moment we are brought into this world we are seeking connections, seeking love, seeking belonging. It is as fundamental to the human existence as breathing, and yet, is something we all struggle so despairingly with. We spend so long trying to fit in, that we neglect to see the connections twining us all together.

Nothing Rhymes with Orange is a moving anthology that offers contemporary meditations on the complexities of belonging. This diverse collection of short stories, personal essays and poems is sure to tug on your heart strings and challenge your understanding of what it means to belong.

Katherine Brabon is an award-winning writer from Melbourne, Australia. Her first novel, The Memory Artist, won The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award in 2016. It was shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and longlisted in the Indie Book Awards. Her second novel, The Shut Ins, won the People’s Choice Award at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards in 2022. It was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and longlisted for the Voss Prize and the ALS Gold Medal. Her third novel Body Friend was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the ALS Gold Medal.

The University of Õ¬Äе¼º½ Anthology is created, curated and produced by publishing students.

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword by Katherine Brabon
• Grave Digger by Natarina Ramdhana
• Unfamiliar by Samantha Bowers
• Consensus by Amalia Stone
• The Lost Child by Holly Myers
• Dew on the Grass by Sharmila Jayasinghe
• Somewhere, Not Here by Soralinn
• Closer to Middle-Aged than Zero by Jannet Xie
• settler gratitude by Hellai Gul
• The Swan by Hilma af Klint; Odile’s Feastings by Saraa Purba
• land & sound by Hellai Gul
• Hatchet by Simone Wong
• Where I Made You Happy by Chloe Isabelle Pryce
• The Airport by Matilda Meikle
• Tina and the Old Man by Sharmila Jayasinghe
• Chrysanthemums by Natalie Susak
• Con, Ma by Johnny Banh
• The Inferno the Living/The World is An Oyster by Joe Denman
• Proprioception by Vanessa Yenson
• I Came Fleeting on a Boat by Soralinn
• The Tense Discourse by Eeshita
• Fragility of Being Human by Siddhanth Pai
• Sweet by Djuna Hallsworth
• This House Has Too Many Rooms by Chloe Isabelle Price
• In the Depths of Winter by Vanessa Yenson
• Attraction by Toby A Moffatt
• Don’t (You) Question by Ngoc Thuan Anh Huynh
• Belonging (To Be Longing) by Ngoc Thuan Anh Huynh
• Belonging by Angela Fossi
• Now You See Them by Karen-Anne Coleman
• The Same Blade by Simone Wong
• Woodwork by Dennis Haskell
• Mangiare O Non Mangiare by Alesso Maugeri
• Nothing Rhymes with Orange by Yenfay Camp
• Uncles by Dennis Haskell
• Seven Mile Beach by Tom Evans
• Blood by Christina King
• My Grandmother’s Grandmother by Chloe Isabelle Pryce
• Like Two Sides of a Coin by Emoh Ebubechukwu Justina
• Potato Soup by Joshua Marcus
• Let Me Be the Mountain by Chloe Isabelle Pryce
• Evening Walks Along the Sunbird Circle by Sanskriti Satyakam
• Train Travel by Dennis Haskell
• Nineteen Views of Itsukushima by Nicholas Osiowy
• Next Door by Sarah Nielson
• The Cat Upstairs by Chloe Isabelle Pryce
• Õ¬Äе¼º½ the Authors
• Õ¬Äе¼º½ the Editors