Short text is a popular literary form in contemporary literature, which requires reduction of the words, concentration of the meaning and the very expressive images. In such texts there is no plot or it is very limited. Possibly, this compression is because of acceleration of the pace and increasing of the volume of information in the modern life, when writer doesn't want to keep reader for long time. Possibly, this form was affected by modern music and advertising videos, as new-born cinema affected literature of XX century. In the short text attention is focused on a moment, small fact, person, but not on main historic period or event.
The contest of Short Text was announced for one of the main goal of the Festival — to introduce contemporary Russian literature to the Australian reader, to show current state of the literature in Russia, Australia and other countries. The texts could contain up to 400 words, as previously published, as new. 53 Russian-speaking authors sent their works to the contest. The selection of the winners was done independently by the Australian Russian media, Committee of the Festival and expert jury — Anatoly Kudryavitsky, an author, a poet, and a compiler of an anthology of short texts, and Igor Mytko, writer, editor, script writer, author of a book of miniatures «Roads and Fools».
On 27 of March Evening of short texts of the «Antipodes» Festival was held in Centre of Poetic books (PEN-centre, Moscow) - in Russian
As per announced rules of the Contest, Australian Russian media, Committee of the Festival and expert jury independently chose authors for their publications.
Serafima Lapteva
Yakov Smagarinskiy
Gennadij Goncharov
Tatiana Vassilieva
Ludmila Grushina
Nina Ekaterininskaya
Nadezhda Ivolga
Mark Lutskiy
Magazine «Australiada. Russian Chronicle» will publish the texts of these authors in the next issue. Three authors — Serafima Lapteva, Yakov Smagarinskiy and Gennadij Goncharov — will receive free subscription for 2009.
Serafima Lapteva
Tina Vassiliev
Julia Leontieva
Nina Ekaterininskaya
Olga Zhakova
Yakov Smagarinskiy
Ludmila Grushina
Liliana Chobanu
Almanac «Australian Mosaic» will publish the texts of these authors in the next issue.
Liliana Chobanu
Olga Chadina
Ludmila Grushina
Nadezhda Ivolga
Felix Krivin
Julia Leontieva
Mark Lutskiy
Eduard Virapyan
Newspaper «Cup of Cofee» has published these texts in the last issue.
Sergey Altukhov
Mikhail Bezrodniy
Olga Chadina
Boris Khudimov
Roza Khusnutdinova
B. Konstriktor
Eva Rappoport
Naum Vaiman
Eduard Virapyan
Vitaliy Zhurahovskiy, Igor Sid
These texts will be read during one of the nearest program of the SBS radio.
Boris Natashin
Naum Vaiman
Tina Vassiliev
Newspaper «Horizon» will publish the texts of these authors in the next issue.
Sergey Altukhov
Arkadiy Bartov
Mikhail Bezrodniy
Igor Bobyrev
Olga Chadina
Galina Granovskaya
Roza Khusnutdinova
Boris Khudimov
Andrey Kovrayskiy
B. Konstriktor
Boris Kolymagin
Felix Krivin
Natalia Kuzmina
Tatiana Mikhailovskaya
A. Nick
Maria Ordynskaya
Eva Rappoport
Nikolay Shoshanni
Boris Tseitlin
Elena Tverdislavova
Maxim Usachev
Tina Vassiliev
Eduard Virapyan
Committee of the Festival is going to publish these texts as an almanac.
Roza Khusnutdinova
Boris Kolymagin
B. Konstriktor
A. Nick
Eva Rappoport
Maxim Usachev
Dmitriy Viskov
Previously unpublished texts of Dmitriy Viskov, Boris Kolymagin and Maxim Usachev will be puiblished by Anatoly Kudryavitsky in «Window of poetry» journal.
Liked the most:
Felix Krivin
Liked very much:
Naum Vaiman
Elena Kasyan
Eva Rappoport
Liked:
Eduard Virapyan
Tina Vassiliev
Gennadiy Goncharov
Natalia Kuzmina
Serafima Lapteva
Olga Chadina
Liked a little:
Yulia Andreeva
Galina Granovskaya
Ludmila Grushina
Nina Ekaterininskaya
Vadim Kuzmin
Igor Sid
B. Konstriktor
Ludmila Larkina
Maria Ordynskaya
Maria Skryagina
Yakov Smagarinskiy
Some of the texts Igor Mytko is going to publish in «Roads and Fools»-2 collection, and some texts in «Terrible stories about mirrors» collection.