Melbourne Writers' Group

Lockdown Melbourne Writers' Group

A collection of 25 short stories and poems by 18 Victorian writers in a range of styles and subjects created during and responding to the statewide lockdown in the middle of 2020. They explore how relationships were maintained or frayed, loss of identity, and the stress of daily life in lockdown. Some enter the realm of fantasy, hyper-reality or magic realism, while others depict the experience with a more journalistic detachment.