Issue Nine • Issue Nine Fiction
June 15, 2020
by Samuel Elliott Isla was removing the pavlova when her son shrieked. She tightened her hold on the tray, burning her hands through...
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by Avi Leibovitch Ronen quickened his pace when he saw the royal guards cross the street. There were four of them, and they were...
by Rue Baldry 60 I have heard what they do to women like me. I don’t want to be strung above the streets, choking on my own...
Issue Nine • Issue Nine Poetry • Poetry
by Edna Heled Germany. To think that we can look to you for comfort and hope at a time of paralyzing fear the world will...
by Chris Armstrong Dad looks up from the page, sees me —startles as if I were death itself; lurking, watching. Hello. He...
by Denise Ogilvie The mysteries of the Min Min lights in Outback Queensland have been around since the Dreamtime. * ...
Issue Nine • Issue Nine Book Reviews
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “‘I have the order here. With a scratch of my pen his life is over.’ Josephine gasped....
by Hugh McMillan A Picture of the vessel Agnes, near Dockfoot Taken here most likely, at this mooring now swamped by...
by Angela Costi – 1965, Regatta Hotel, QLD Rosalie and Merle clasped their ‘cold ones’, forced their smiles,...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “‘As a girl, I believed the movement of the stars made music we did not even...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “When our light laughter—mine more forced than hers—fades, I lift my gaze to the veil and the...
by Vashti Farrer She never got over it. It ate away like an ulcer once it took hold, him being her first child. A sickly child,...
by James Walton Sometimes it was my turn to buy the shilling’s worth of broken biscuits from the new Summerhill shops then...
Issue Nine • Issue Nine Author Interviews
About the author: Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of My Name Is Revenge, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital...
Issue Nine • Issue Nine Poetry
by Jenny Blackford After the Old Babylonian sculptured plaque in the British Museum I Claw-footed goddess strong as death,...
Interviews • Issue Nine • Issue Nine Author Interviews
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Issue Nine Contributors • Past Contributors
Hugh McMillan is a well published and award winning poet from south west Scotland. You can find out more on his website here:...
James Walton was a librarian, a farm labourer, and mostly a public sector union official. He is published in many anthologies, journals,...
Rue Baldry lives in Yorkshire, Great Britain. Her short stories have been published in journals such as Litro, MIR Online, Postbox, Ambit,...
Chris Armstrong is a writer whose poetry has appeared in Australian literary journals including Griffith Review, Cordite, Overland,...
A Melbourne-based poet with a long history of working in the social justice sector and also as a freelance community writer....
Edna Heled is an artist, art therapist, counsellor and travel journalist living in New Zealand. Her writing includes short stories, poetry,...
June 8, 2018
Avi is an Editor of Other Terrain and Backstory journals. He is currently studying at Swinburne University of Technology, undergoing his...
December 9, 2017
From 1989 to 2014 Denise Ogilvie worked as a Librarian at Williamstown Library, and later Hobsons Bay Libraries. Denise enjoys writing...
January 13, 2017
Samuel Elliott is a Sydney-based freelance literary and entertainment reporter. Having previously regularly appeared in premier digital...
August 25, 2016
Vashti Farrer has worked as a copywriter, research librarian, encyclopaedia researcher, creative writing tutor, short story judge,...