Issue Nine Contributors • Past Contributors
January 13, 2017
Samuel Elliott is a Sydney-based freelance literary and entertainment reporter. Having previously regularly appeared in premier digital...
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Past Contributors
November 7, 2016
Dr. Josie Arnold is Professor of Writing. She developed the MA(Writing) online course and the PhD by Artefact & Exegesis for creative...
September 5, 2016
Dr Jacqueline Ross is a widely published author of fiction and non-fiction. She has written for both children and adults. Jacqueline is...
Clare Millar studies creative writing / literature and professional writing / editing at Swinburne University. She’s part of the...
Margaret Marchant lives in Adelaide, South Australia and is currently studying for Masters of Arts (Writing) at Swinburne University. When...
John Frederick Whitehall suffers from chronic wanderlust. Treatment for this syndrome has taken him to over fifty countries but, as yet, a...
Tamasine Loves is a 23-year-old emerging writer from the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne’s outer-east. Born into a book-loving family,...
Kate has a back ground in journalism and in the health sector. She has written for a health magazine for 5 years before doing her...
September 3, 2016
Arianne James is a writer of fiction and a lover of words, books, people, long conversations, eavesdropping, music, stars, cats and many...
August 25, 2016
Vashti Farrer has worked as a copywriter, research librarian, encyclopaedia researcher, creative writing tutor, short story judge,...
Issue One • Past Contributors
May 22, 2016
Backstory’s Issue Two will feature an interview with award winning author, Alex Miller. Alex Miller’s eleventh novel, Coal...
May 21, 2016
After a multi-faceted career in finance and economics, Melbourne-based author Louise Wilson has returned to her teenage passion for...
Christina Aitken was born in Tasmania, but has lived mostly in Victoria. She is a social worker, mother of two, and emerging writer and...
Duncan Richardson is a writer of fiction, poetry, history and educational texts. He is keen to uncover the hidden stories of Brisbane’s...
MA Fox is an expat American editor and author living in Adelaide, South Australia. With a few short story publications under her belt, she...
Helen F Miller’s philosophy is that story plants seeds that suggest another way of looking at life and is, therefore, instrumental in...
Kirsty Seebeck is a Masters student at Swinburne whose first published work is this one right here. Be kind – and if you can’t be, just...
Rachael Palmer is a student in Swinburne University of Technology’s writing program. She enjoys wine and novel pairing, writing and other...
Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She has sold many stories and articles,...
May 19, 2016
Teuila Krause is a Sub-editor of Backstory journal and third year Professional Writing and Editing student at Swinburne. With a love of...
May 15, 2016
Oscar O’Neill-Pugh is a Sub-editor of Backstory journal. He has been writing stories and poetry for as long as he remembers....
Ana-Teona Tinc is a Sub-editor of Backstory journal. She began writing ever since she gave up on a career in Science and Mathematics in her...
Jac Mason is a Sub-editor of Backstory journal. He is currently studying Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne. He enjoys writing...
Tina Tsironis is a Sub-Editor of Backstory journal. A freelance writer in her final year studying Media and Communications at Swinburne...
Andy Goss is a Sub-editor of Backstory journal. Law school dropout, bookseller, computer programmer, advertorial writer, and now again a...
Sarah Giles is a Sub-editor of Backstory journal. A student studying Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University, she was...
May 14, 2016
Eloise Faichney a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Monash University in Australia. Her thesis investigates lacunae in the life...
