This anthology groups ten top New Zealand writers to show the recent development of fiction writing in this country. The contributions cover the past 40 years, from Maurice Shadbolt in the late 1960s to Ronald Hugh Morrieson in the early 1970s, on through Russell Hayley and Keri Hulme in the 1980s to Kirsty Gunn, Chad Taylor and Mike Johnson in the 1990s. Novellas from literary legends Janet Frame and Witi Ihimaera round out this anthology of the best contemporary New Zealand short-fiction. Seven New Zealand Novellas was nominated in the 2004 Montana Book Awards Anthology category.