Issue seven • Issue Seven Poetry
June 16, 2019
By Philip Porter, She falls into her father’s arms from various heights: This was the light that held her darknesses from her....
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Issue Seven Contributor • Past Contributors
Poorly navigating the internet one LiveLeak video at a time, Laura Wild is an Australian writer currently studying at Swinburne University...
By Gary McCartney Hush, Macushla, time to sleep The night is getting colder Pray the Lord your soul to keep For you’ll...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Fiction
by Wendy Wicks She is standing in the doorway examining him. His eyes were still grey. She remembered when they first met. Those...
Mark Mulholland was born and raised in Ireland, and when fifteen underwent a stroke of genius and left schooling to linger around a...
By Anita Patel (in memory of Maria Sibylla Merian – 1647 -1717) It is not natural for a young girl to gaze at insects night...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Contributor • Issue seven interviews
by Samuel Elliott About the author… Nigel Featherstone is an Australian writer who has been published widely. His works include...
Michele Seminara is a poet, editor and yoga teacher. After studying English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, she...
Karen Lethlean is a retired English teacher. With fiction which has appeared in the Barbaric Yawp, Ken*Again, Pendulum Papers and has won a...
By Nathanael O’Reilly Eat a counter lunch of lamb shanks, salad and chips at the Royal Mail Hotel in the room where the Kelly...
By Amanda Bell Look first for an open cockle shell, spreadeagled on the damp part of the strand, then, with your fingers, form a...
By Audrey Molloy And all this time, was anyone keeping account? Light from Light, true God from true God, Child-years lost...
By Ellen Shelley You watch as shadows wear you as ink dries hard up inside the stone. Tombs collapse with their dialect of...
I dropped out of my first degree. After 12 years, which included a marriage and kids, I went back to study and became in time, a radio...
By Chad Norman, Remembering Kenneth Patchen, but written for those war and politics uproot. I speak because I can because I can use...
Sven was born and raised in Hobart with three younger brothers. His childhood mostly included playing sports and travelling overseas during...
By Rose Lucas Highfield House, home of the Van Diemen’s Land Company Manager, Stanley Tasmania ...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Reviews
Review by Caitlin Bowen Enza Gandolfo is an Australian writer whose latest novel, ‘The Bridge’ delves deep into the circumstances that...
Interviewed by Samuel Elliott. About The Author: Jan Golembiewski grew up in suburban Canberra and in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. He...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “This was not the exultation of war. This was gratitude. This was sadness for the waste of life. … This...
By Jane Downing Tilly heard the shouting but not the words. She pulled herself out of the fireplace and listened. Good. The...
By Chad Norman Freedom surrounds my life at the moment bees doing their thing in white clovers, laughter at a nearby picnic-table is...
By Mark Mulholland. So it’s to the station bar in Dublin for a quick scoop between trains when who is it but Audrey Hepburn that...
By Issabelle Breen. Author Bio G.S. Johnston is the author of three historical novels, Sweet Bitter Cane (2019), The Cast of a...
Issue Seven Poetry
By Bernadette O’Reilly He attempted to strangle her in the Bedroom of our house. Frightened mouse Drew back the curtains Light...
By Bernadette O’Reilly Pink tea set Bought for me By Uncle Jim The blue by Mum. Pretend play Fear The howl of the wind His key...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Essays
by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro. The sun beat down on my parents’ black Olds as they drove south to their honeymoon in Florida. It was...
Issue Seven Poetry • Uncategorised
By Stuart Barnes i.m. Nancy Barnes This poem was previously published in Glasshouses (UQP 2016)...
By Kenneth Pobo In junior high I had a crush, on Mr. Lotee, my history teacher. How I stared as he stood by the board and said how...
Interviewer: Paul Brookes When and why did you begin to write poetry? I wrote my first poem in my early teens in response to an...
