Editorial Team • Issue Thirteen Editorial Team
June 6, 2023
Ryu is a writing student at Swinburne, born and raised in Melbourne’s south. From a young age he has held a strong love of contemporary...
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Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
In search of identity Rose Saltman In 1994, I voted in the elections of two countries. I was a citizen of only one of them. ...
Number one story street By Claire Baxter John I remember Christmas day. It might have been Christmas 1940 – maybe 1939 – when...
Fiction • Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Fiction
The Golden Apple Eric Tian It took place at midnight, on the field across the bank. My acquaintance stepped out of the boat,...
The Magic Cow Eric Tian The cow came in March. By May, it was all over. I must write this down so I, too, do not forget our history. It...
Diamond Beach Days Angela Fitzpatrick 1965 Daisy sat at the café table gazing out the window at the promenade as tears ran down...
Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Poetry • Poetry
Lingchi Jon Culp i Inherited a pair of right-handed scissors- from depths of the basket of twist-thread and patterns beside...
Irish Green Ann Kathryn Kelly I am from an Irish Clan’s love, strong as bedrock, deep as ocean. The baby in the family almost...
things, in places Maria Griffin here, a thing. behind it: another. there, a third. three things sit, each in its place, as if...
CONTENT WARNING : This work contains material that some readers may find disturbing; please continue at your own discretion. Confession at...
Contributors • Issue Fourteen Contributors • Past Contributors
Eric is a medical student from Melbourne that reads and writes to better understand the world. He is interested in psychiatry and the...
Maria’s writing practice includes essays, exhibition texts, reviews and poetry. Her writing has recently appeared in Slippage Lit, Ghost...
Rose Saltman is an urban planner, writer and editor who lives in Sydney, Australia. She has a Master of Arts in Non-fiction Writing from...
Angela studied Creative Writing with the Open University and recently embarked on an MLitt with University of Glasgow. She is the editor of...
Jon Culp began writing in the high mountain desert of North Central Washington. He and his wife of 30 years now live in Bellingham where...
Ann Kathryn Kelly writes from New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. She’s an editor with Barren Magazine, a columnist with WOW! Women on...
Van is a student of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne, and she is completing diploma at the end of this year. She loves reading...
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Laura is currently undertaking a diploma of professional writing and editing at Swinburne university. A passionate story teller from a...
A HISTORY OF CHESS Mark Mitchell I am still a victim of chess… —Marcel Duchamp I was not born under stone mountains in...
This Peter Loveday If all the lines begin with who, or why, or how pointing directly at what they want to know what hope is there in...
June 3, 2023
Mark J. Mitchell has worked in hospital kitchens, fast food, retail wine and spirits, conventions, tourism, and warehouses. He has also...
Claire Baxter has lived in various suburbs in Melbourne, including Parkville, where the story is set. She has an interest in time,...
Peter Loveday is a writer and singer-songwriter born in Toowoomba, Australia and living in Barcelona. Author of short story collections;...
Anne Collins writes poetry and creative non-fiction. Her sixth book is collection of poetry and prose with Spanish themes titled Listening...
Brody is an aspiring author and student of the Diploma of professional writing and editing. Brody has worked as an editor and website...
Fiction • Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Fiction
May 24, 2022
By Penny George “I’m pregnant,” she said. Gabriel stood frozen. “Isn’t that wonderful news babe? I mean, of course, it’s a...
By Alison Knight They’ll be coming to fetch me soon. It’s me big day! Lots of people out there. I can hear them through me window....
Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
By Peter Mitchell (1985) It was January. The party at the Wellington Boot raged into the night. Platters of food were spread around the...
By Jane Downing Rita put her lesson plan to one side in frustration. Her cup of tea was cold. In one way there was too much material on the...
Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Book Reviews • Reviews
By Chloe Britton Written by Professors Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans from the law school of the University of Melbourne, Guilty Pigs is a...
