About
Signs of life is a literary anthology themed around first- and second-hand experiences of illness and care-giving.
How do experiences of sickness or incapacitation change our bodies, who we are, and how we see the world? And how do they affect the people around us?
Available for purchase here
contributing authors
Reinfred Dziedzorm Addo, The shaking Man
Leah Baker, You have dysentery
Emily Bourne, Blog of a sick girl
Rachel Burns, Snowdrops
Josie Byrne, Anne
Ann Calandro, The halo
Al Campbell, Does he feel warm?
Steve Cushman, Fracture city
Scott Dalgarno, You brachee, you buyee
D.E.L. Win a date with John Mayer!
Katie Danis, Create It away
Jann Everand, Not done with all that
Darci Flatley, My mother, the gardenia
Annette Freeman, Lifelines
Rebecca Garnett Haris, Doctor’s appointment
Rukayatu Ibrahim, We do what we can
C.A. Limina, Transcendental numbers
Callum Methven, Year sixty-eight
Vanessa McClelland, Fuddle
Peter Mitchell, Call of the crow
Isabella Mori, Purgatory
Sophie Overett, Dive
C.A. Rivera, The old doctor and his waiting room
Janey Runci, The Man from St Judes
Sarah Sasson, Unlearning
Nicole Zelnicker, Thicker than water
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About the Editor
Sarah Sasson is an Australian physician-writer with degrees in English Literature and Medicine. In Australia, the UK and USA her poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in Meanjin, Oxford Writers’ House, Medium, Intersection Stories, Grieve Anthology, Unsweetened, Translating Pain and Orris Root. Sarah is collating and editing Signs of Life as an independent project.