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December 1, 2019
Anne Walsh has been shortlisted twice for both the ACU Prize in Literature and for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared...
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Jill Jones’ most recent books are Viva the Real (UQP), Brink (Five Islands Press), The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann),...
Hélène Cardona, poet, actor and translator, is the author of six books, most recently the award-winning Dreaming My Animal Selves...
Issue Eight • Issue Eight Poetry • Poetry
By Marilyn Humbert where mist blurs men and trees a call sharp as a shard cracks the valley breaking morning rituals I listen...
By Daragh Byrne In memory of Des Byrne You would find him on a wet November Wednesday, sideways rain in New Abbey Filling the...
2019 HNSA Short Story Contest • Fiction • Issue Eight Fiction. • Uncategorised
by Dell Brand. Commended story in the 2019 HNSA short story contest. Boney sat hunched over the wheel, clunking along slowly over the...
Angela T. Carr is a poet, editor and creative writing facilitator. Her debut collection How to Lose Your Home & Save Your Life...
By J.W. Burns Like some animal you get tired of your skin, want to sink to the bottom and just push life through the mud. But...
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Devika Brendon is a teacher, editor, reviewer and writer of English Literature. Her poetry, short stories, and reviews have been widely...
By Angela T. Carr I am not born. Doctors gas my mother and she baulks. Trees creep in, snake the delivery room. She wanders out of...
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Sandra Renew was a featured poet for a third year at the National Folk Festival 2019. Her poetry includes a range of critique and...
Marissa Skeels is a Melbourne-based editor and translator who has lived in Fukushima, Kyoto, and Tokyo. Her translations have appeared in...
Interviews • Issue Eight • Issue Eight Interviews
by Nik Shone. About the artist: Shona Blake is a singer/songwriter/writer based on the west coast of Ireland. Her thoughtful prose has a...
By Sandra Renew the revolution of 1863 Singer sewing machines and Butterick/Mc Calls patterns collected in Lever arch files ...
By Owen Bullock Clarence and Marion. The steep path to the door. The view of a distant ocean and near clay tips. High tea spread to...
By Drucilla Wall In summer the cattle graze the high patches made rich on limestone leaching into thin topsoil, rain generally...
By Eamonn Wall Today through field glasses I observe one small flock of red-winged blackbirds busy about the Audubon Center, the...
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by Eden van Leeuwen Jumping up and down on the roof the metal banging in my ears the anthem to my tale. Sweat is blooming on my...
Kristen de Kline (aka Kristen Davis) is a Melbourne writer who has published poetry in a range of publications including Pink Cover Zine,...
Debbie Lim was born in Sydney. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including regularly in the Best Australian Poems...
By Eamonn Wall —the best teacher lives outside, the best teacher lives inside you, beating blood, breathing air, the best...
By Angela T. Carr Nest of pebbles on the doorstep – a pagan offering, the work of small hands – its matted grass walls,...
Issue Eight • Issue Eight Poetry • Issue Eight Reviews
reviewed by Jayme Constandino. Giant Steps is a modern compilation of the workings from fifty poets where they reflect on the Apollo 11...
Daragh Byrne writes informed by his background in physics, a dedicated mindfulness practice and a career building technology....
By Anthony Lawrence In a river that still reeks of decay, in a time before the weir divided fresh from salt among mangroves that...
By Anne Walsh Visible in the wild wreck I am is the empire I was. My ruin is the most beautiful architecture. Wreckage has made me...
by Peter Boyle. Saint Germain des près, St Martins in the Fields — what are so many churches doing in the meadows? Why are...
By Kristen de Kline, + we loved like demons our kisses, fresh and fugitive we snorted lines as Cave wrestled skeleton trees crooned...
Issue Eight Contributor • Issue Eight Fiction. • Past Contributors
Mori Shige (1880-1938) was a university-educated, headstrong feminist writer from Tokyo, Japan, who wrote over 20 novels. She was disowned...
By Hélène Cardona. when my soul turned round, perceiving the other-side of everything…...
