PhD candidate Nick Smith selected for The Best Australian Stories 2011

NIck Smith's short story "Everybody Wins on Kid Planet" has been selected for The Best Australian Stories 2011.

Edited by Cate Kennedy and published by Black Inc this annual anthology of the best in Australian short fiction is available now. See the Penguin Books website.

Nick Smith's 'Everybody Wins on Kid Planet' takes an afternoon at an indoor playground and skillfully morphs it to present a mordantly comic overview of the state of childhood itself
- Cate Kennedy, Introduction, The Best Australian Stories 2011.

Nick Smith is undertaking his PhD in the field of Creative Writing in the School of Cultural Inquiry. As part of his research he is writing a comic novel about contemporary work entitled The Future of Food.