Nothing Interesting About Cross Street

by Beth Yahp

220 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Beth Yahp is an award-winning author, editor and creative-writing teacher of adults and children. She has published short fiction and travel and memoir feature articles in Australia, South-East Asia and Europe. Her novel The Crocodile Fury is translated into several languages and her libretto, Moon Spirit Feasting, for composer Liza Lim, won the APRA Award for Best Classical Composition in 2003.

Beth has worked as an editor and taught creative writing for many years, including at the University of Technology, Sydney, Macquarie University, the American University of Paris, and currently at the University of Sydney. She completed her Doctorate of Creative Arts in travel and memoir writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. She was the presenter of Elsewhere, a program for travelers on ABC Radio National (2010-11).

Author Lives In: Sydney, Australia

Reviews

[Amy Laurens · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is what you get when your creative writing teacher at school is way too enthusiastic o.O It's a compilation of short stories (ranging from short-short-short to the just short) by both well-known Australian authors and the class of students that one of them taught. The title is the complaint voiced by the students when asked to write about their lives, where they lived, what they did - anything, please, just write! *grin*

As would be expected, some of the stories are top notch, and some are... well, written by amateurs. Do the good stories make the read worth it? Probably. Unless you had something more interesting to read. O:)

[Sharkcrow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full review coming soon... but in short, the stories by the established authors are great. The stories by the students have some great raw material and could be great, but are not quite there.