Australia is diverse, Keren Heenen is one of the sixteen writers who surprise you, as they take you to places you know, or think you know, in ‘The Furphy Anthology’, selected stories from the Furphy Literary Award in 2021. Far from being about an isolated case of abuse, Mandy Beaumont’s, ‘The Furies’, speaks to the endemic victimization of women in society and one doesn’t have to look too far beyond the fictional page to find parallels within ‘respectable’ institutions like our own parliament.