Issue Twelve Contributors • Past Contributors
June 22, 2021
Originally from Queensland, Jess is currently studying the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. Jess enjoys...
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Past Contributors
Bradlee Jennings is a songwriter and memoirist from Melbourne who is studying Professional Writing & Editing at Swinburne. Since...
Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Reviews • Reviews
by Angela Wauchop ‘Behind the ragged grey people and their own shabby infantry officers— … the houses are little more than...
Interviews • Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Interviews
Interview by Brad Jennings Hakim Bellamy is a poet, author, musician, playwright, actor, and community organiser. In 2012, he became...
Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Poetry • Poetry
By Jess Roscioli The beginning was bliss. A desire, with a depth – more forceful than the ocean we met along. Purity,...
Fiction • Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Fiction
by Lyssa Stevens The gun shots are relentless. Men cry in pain as blood oozes from their wounds, dripping down the walls of the...
by Bethany Cody Fat tears won’t flood the lake. A head full of summer memories. She stayed at yours, you stayed up late. Cut your...
By Bradlee Jennings Talaleu was the fearless goddess who wrangled flesh and air, Willing me into existence. Healthy yet homeless, I...
by Alison Knight The streetlamp is a thing of beauty. Tall and slender, its neck bows over the footpath in an elegant curlicue....
by Rob McKinnon Surreptitious stowaways to the flourishing city hiding in groaning ships from contaminated ports. Finding...
by Bethany Cody Born of the beach, a young man from Taffs Well, gateway to the valleys, an immigrant living along the flat shores of...
by Amy Bertacco A building is only a building until it means something to someone. I was nothing until the people of Alexandria,...
by Miles Boyle-Bryant ‘A fucking woman? I ask for help, and they send a fucking woman?’ ‘Mr. Watkins, I promise you I-’ ‘I...
Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
by Dilini Fredrick My grandmother on my mum’s side, Charlotte Nona (Nona is a Sinhalese word for ‘madam’ or ‘lady’), had...
by Melissa King It’s mid-morning on a temperate autumn day in 2020, during the early stages of Victoria’s first COVID-19...
by Sam Johnston My hands descend into the abyss of shredded bags and rotting food, digging around for the toy. I haven’t even...
by Angela Wauchop ‘But there is a lot Keledi does not know. You haven’t told her about the big plane that took Baba up in the...
Josh is a student at the Swinburne University of Technology, and studying for a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing. He enjoys...
by Peter Loveday In the afternoon we go down to the vegetable patch to dig up the cat we buried there. No matter how far down we...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop ‘Was it the malevolence of bitch girls and the opulence ranking of their homes? The spite of...
by Jessica Roscioli There’s something about the night sky that sparks deep nostalgia within me. It’s abundant in hues of deep...
by Josh Kee Era of Plastic. When Raegan Passed new toy laws, Hasbro wanted stake. Seeking new concepts, Hasbro went to the...
June 21, 2021
by Vincent Kakkos Ein Stein surprised the absolute shit out of me. As someone who hadn’t read a novel to completion in almost a...
Interview by Vincent Kakkos Joe Reich is an author, painter and practicing ophthalmologist based here in Melbourne Australia. In 2009,...
June 15, 2021
Let me to introduce you to a few of the fabulous pieces from the upcoming issue of Backstory. From gangster grannies to broken soldiers,...
May 18, 2021
History can be fun, disastrous, atrocious, exciting and enlightening. So it’s such a shame that the typical curriculum is often...
May 4, 2021
Reading about history is important. It helps us to better understand the complex and nuanced world we traverse today. That, in turn...
Issue Ten Contributors • Past Contributors
November 23, 2020
Joshua Kepreotis is a writer born in Australia and of Greek heritage. He has published essays in 3AM Magazine and HuffingtonPost Greece,...
Issue Ten Contributors
It was Janeen O’Connell’s grandmother’s stories, told with love and pride about her Scottish family and their political will...
Issue Ten Contributors • Issue Thirteen Contributors • Past Contributors
Alison has written two novels, Peter Stone and The Close, and an anthology of stories. Her stories have also appeared in Pendulum Papers,...