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Fig is Dael Allison’s narrative portrait of the regional place of Muloobinba/Newcastle and its Coquun/Hunter River catchment in fourteen linked stories. Its span encompasses dockworkers who supported Chinese seamen walking off their ship in 1937, a young drag queen caught in the melee of the Star Hotel riot in 1979, the fall-out for a female apprentice joining BHP’s male-centric workplace, activists blockading coal ships from entering the world’s biggest coal port, protestors fiercely trying to protect an emblematic avenue of native fig trees in the CBD, as well as when the failures to protect results in domestic violence, homelessness and the institutionalised exploitation of children by the church. Unity in this collection comes from the character of the city itself and shifting representations of its waterways and hinterland, as well as through recurring characters and relationships in the narratives.



About the Author :
Dael Allison has won numerous awards for poetry, the Varuna Award for an Unpublished novel and the International Wildcare Prize for Environmental Writing, and was awarded three residencies at Varuna and a Wildcare residency at Maria Island, Tasmania. Her Masters in creative writing from UTS, 2012, explored the life and work of Australia’s first modernist artist, Ian Fairweather, and poems from her book Fairweather’s Raft (Walleah Press) featured in an ABC Poetica soundscape. In 2024 she was awarded a PhD in creative writing from the University of Newcastle for her thesis Fig: Narrative Newcastle, a critical exegesis and short story cycle engaging with literary narratives of Newcastle. Her research surveyed and evaluated representations of the region in the fields of fiction, creative memoir and theatre, from the physical, oral and performance texts of the First Nations peoples and works by convicts in Newcastle’s penal colony, through narratives colonial era and the twentieth century, the city’s industrial era, to the present. The creative outcome of this PhD is her linked story novel, Fig.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781923099852
  • Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
  • Publisher Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 192309985X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N


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