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WINNER OF A 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR ABIA

Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars.

This anthology has them all.

With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson and Danielle Binks, this all-new collection will show the world exactly how much there is to love about Aussie YA.

Harnessing the power of the #LoveOzYA social media movement, this anthology features incredible short stories from ten beloved Australian YA authors.



MORE AWARDS

Winner - 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (Older Children)

Shortlisted - 2018 Inky Awards

Shortlisted -- 2017 Aurealis Awards (Best Young Adult Short Story): One Small Step by Amie Kaufman, I Can See the Ending by Will Kostakis, Competition Entry #349 by Jaclyn Moriarty, First Casualty by Michael Pryor and Oona Underground by Lili Wilkinson

Shortlisted -- 2017 Aurealis Awards (Best Fantasy Short Story): Oona Underground by Lili Wilkinson

Shortlisted -- 2017 Aurealis Awards (Best Science Fiction Short Story): One Small Step by Amie Kaufman

Shortlisted -- 2017 Aurealis Awards (Best Science Fiction Novella): I Can See the Ending by Will Kostakis


A short story from BEGIN, END, BEGIN: A #LOVEOZYA ANTHOLOGY.
This tale is a contemporary YA story about the last night in a small town for a young girl's big brother, when she covertly tags along to take part in the goodbye revelry with his friends.

I Can See the Ending

by Will Kostakis

Published 1 May 2017
A short story from BEGIN, END, BEGIN: A #LOVEOZYA ANTHOLOGY.
Love is never as simple as Boy Meets Girl, not for a psychic teen anyway. Nothing spoils Boy Kisses Girl quite like a vision of Girl Dumping Boy . . .

Missing Persons

by Ellie Marney

Published 1 May 2017
A short story from BEGIN, END, BEGIN: A #LOVEOZYA ANTHOLOGY.
'I want to get out of here. But no amount of walking is going to get me back home . . .' Rachel Watts is adrift in the Big Smoke - until an eccentric boy called James Mycroft comes into her orbit.

Oona Underground

by Lili Wilkinson

Published 1 May 2017
A short story from BEGIN, END, BEGIN: A #LOVEOZYA ANTHOLOGY.
Meg and Oona venture into the drains under their city to find the fortune-telling Witch Queen.

A short story from BEGIN, END, BEGIN: A #LOVEOZYA ANTHOLOGY.
What if your history class took a school excursion to a time-travel agency to visit England in the seventeenth century? And what if you decided to secretly switch your time-travel destination, and visit your own home two weeks ago instead? Then you could witness the moment when Noah Brackman first kissed you - and figure out exactly what went wrong . . .

Sundays

by Melissa Keil

Published 1 May 2017
A short story from BEGIN, END, BEGIN: A #LOVEOZYA ANTHOLOGY.
This is a story about moving on, letting go, embracing change, and surviving those aimless, unfilled days.

One Small Step ...

by Amie Kaufman

Published 1 May 2017
A short story from BEGIN, END, BEGIN: A #LOVEOZYA ANTHOLOGY.
This story contains: explosions, the first person born on Mars, a greenhouse, two girls, a small tree called Horace, kissing, difficult decisions about what to do after school, action sequences, and that awkward moment when you try to figure out if your best friend is into you.

A short story from BEGIN, END, BEGIN: A #LOVEOZYA ANTHOLOGY.
Two teens reunite on an overnight coach from Canberra to Melbourne and are forced to deal with a painful incident from their past.

First Casualty

by Michael Pryor

Published 1 May 2017
A short story from BEGIN, END, BEGIN: A #LOVEOZYA ANTHOLOGY.
A holiday trip (in space!) goes horribly wrong when alien refugees are rescued but the dark side of politics and the media emerges.