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May 10, 2022
Dean Jacgung is a 21 year old aspiring writer studying a Diploma of professional writing and editing at Swinburne University in Hawthorne....
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November 23, 2020
Ellen Lewis is a Naarm (Melbourne) based writing student who is currently completing her Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at...
Brooke Rabone is a Melbourne-based writer of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction articles. She completed her Cert IV in Professional Writing...
June 15, 2020
Raissa is a fresh graduate of the University of Melbourne. She majored in Anthropology and Criminology but has always held creative writing...
2019 HNSA Short Story Contest • Fiction • Issue Eight Fiction. • Uncategorised
December 1, 2019
by Dell Brand. Commended story in the 2019 HNSA short story contest. Boney sat hunched over the wheel, clunking along slowly over the...
Issue Seven Poetry • Uncategorised
June 16, 2019
By Stuart Barnes i.m. Nancy Barnes This poem was previously published in Glasshouses (UQP 2016)...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Reviews • Uncategorised
Review by Brittney Alexander “… the slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. Women’s position is changing. What...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “You thought everything was laid up and settled, long ago, and there it would be, suddenly reaching out...
June 21, 2018
Carolyn is the Faculty’s Program Director of undergraduate and postgraduate Writing courses. This encompasses the Creative Writing and...
June 20, 2018
Marnie Reid is Backstory’s hard working Senior Editor. Ever since childhood she has loved books and reading, so after spending a few...
June 8, 2018
Anne Casey is the Senior Poetry Editor of Other Terrain and Backstory journals. Originally from the west of Ireland, she is a writer living...
Skye Jenner has a Masters in Writing and is currently working towards her PhD in science, whilst absorbing every bit of the written word...
May 10, 2018
Nik Shone is an emerging writer and editor based in Melbourne. Nik is a poet and short story writer with a goal to learn and to write as...
May 8, 2018
Jayme is in her fourth and final year of studying Communications & Media Studies with a minor of Creative Writing at Swinburne...
May 6, 2018
Madeleine is a Melbourne girl in her final year at Swinburne University doing a double degree in Business and Arts. Her majors are...
May 21, 2016
Senaj Alijevski is a Sub-editor of Backstory journal and is studying Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. She is a...
May 17, 2016
Abby Claridge is a Sub-editor at Backstory journal. She has changed more than she thought possible in that last 20 years, but a constant in...