Postcards from Surfers

Postcards from Surfers
First edition
AuthorHelen Garner
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection
PublisherMcPhee Gribble/Penguin
Publication date
1985
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages106 pp.
Awards1986 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, winner
ISBN0140084622

Postcards from Surfers is a collection of short works by Australian writer Helen Garner published in 1985.

The book won the 1986 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards "Christina Stead Prize for Fiction". The stories in the collection have been described as "largely about miscommunication, impossible love, and the accidental hurt we cause each other when we interact." Most of the short works in Postcards from Surfers have been included in a 2017 anthology of Garner's short fiction simply called Stories.