The OutStanding Short Story Competition is Australia’s premier creative writing event for LGBTQI communities.

Billie and Stevie are not your regular couple. They meet at the club the year after leaving school. Billie isn’t looking for a boy. She doesn’t know what she wants.

Stevie flicks his strawberry blonde locks and giggles. You’re fun, he says. He’s dancing in his tennis shorts now his career is over. read more