Each year the Outback Writers Festival conducts a short story competition. This is the 2021 version with the best entries printed in this 364 page book.. Winner is Stacey M King with Thanks, Lucv! and to help celebrate the formation of QANTAS in Winton in 1921, the QANTAS prize goes to Paul Clarke with Hanna's Return. Other writers included are Tracey Liotus, Norah Kersh, Irene Dalgety Timpone, Barry Townsend, Drewe Freeburn, Ken Sykes, Errol Bishop, James Kent, John Griffiths, Irene Bridgeman, Sean Freeburn, Gabriel Moens, Franz Huber, Greg McFarland, Anne McCubben, Rachel Armstrong, Kylie Douglas, Alan Blunt, Barry Blunt, Narelle Fernance, Lynda Alcorn, Joanna Barrett, Beverley Young, Michael Albrecht, Elizabeth Rimmington, Ian Waples, Jill Staunton, Don Douglas, Leanne Green, Elizabeth Tudehope, Margaret Giffard, Megan Hippler, Karen Stockham, Stan Dodgson, Robert King and Derek Bland.

In the under 18, entries from Mehvish Mehboob and Ashlee Coulton.

And all Royalties go to the Outback Writers Festival Inc.