Issue Fifteen Contributors
June 10, 2025
Hi, I’m April, a Bachelor of Arts student at Swinburne and lifelong poet from the Yarra Valley. Nature and the emotional tides of my 20s...
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Fiction • Issue Fifteen
By Emmitt Barnes My Grammy’s house had wall-to-wall white carpet that ran to every white wall. We weren’t allowed in certain...
Issue Fifteen • Poetry
By Karlo Sevilla The mother calls her little girl’s name through the megaphone, hopes that like Lazarus, the child will arise from the...
By Rosalie Hendon We were going to hike, but instead we go to the site where a president was murdered We find the memorial first,...
By Ravindu Paris I stared down at my laptop, the words a dizzying mess. I took a deep breath, my nose immediately engulfed by the...
Issue Fifteen
By Isabelle P. Byrne Our history tells us how we built civilisation on top of the poor, That the west is the older brother you never wished...
MK Zariel (it/its) is a transmasculine neuroqueer poet, theater artist, movement journalist, and insurrectionary anarchist. It is fueled by...
By Helene Berton The children swayed back and forth to the train’s rhythm as it travelled through the countryside until it gradually...
Fariza Farid Memon is an emerging Pakistani writer, who has done her Masters in English Language and Culture. Her works have appeared in To...
Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe. His short work has appeared in over fifty literary magazines,...
By Fariza Farid Memon My document stared back at me in desperation for me to complete my given task, but my eyes and mind drifted to the...
By April Stevens Auburn, like a winter’s flame a fierce tongue, a beautiful name. Her freckles a hundred kisses on her skin, Encompassing...
Maria’s writing has most recently appeared in Archetype, Slippage Lit, Ghost Proposal and in a collaborative essay in Runway...
By Matthew Davis Edward Riggs White ...
Peter Kaczmarczyk, raised in Massachusetts, was willing to leave the comfort of Red Sox country when he learned there were Dunkin Donuts in...
By Ravindu Paris I heard the floorboards creak as I stepped inside the house—my house. A part of me smiled, another part shuddered at the...
By Wolfgang Wright He had studied under Aristotle, the greatest philosopher in Greece, and yet Kalanos, this strange old man from Taxila,...
By Peter Kaczmarczyk I sit on Lexington Green Writing poetry as I did When I was sixteen A place of spirits Where soldiers died at early...
After 30 years as a journalist/columnist, Grant Shimmin returned to poetry in earnest in 2022. He loves story, and humanity, and the...
Rosalie Hendon (she/her) is an arborist living in Columbus, Ohio. Her work is published in Ravens Perch, Quibble Lit, Sad Girls Diaries,...
By Peter Kaczmarczyk I enter the house just off the road, mostly hidden from the view of passers-by. Resting on land reclaimed by nature,...
Isabelle P. Byrne is a published poet and award winning short film maker. Isabelle’s work delves into themes of identity, mental health,...
Emmitt Barnes is a teacher and author based in San Bernardino, California. His work has been featured in Skateism Magazine and The Pacific...
Matthew is a chef that has been working in the ski resorts and suburbs of Victoria, Australia for almost 10 years. Now, with the plan to...
By Maria Griffin here, a thing. behind it: another. there, a third. three things sit, each in its place, as if arranged, pleasingly...
Issue Fifteen • Non-Fiction
By MK Zariel since middle school, when i’ve had an interpersonal conflict, i’ve handled it the normal way—talking to friends, to a...
Native New Yorker Helene Berton has returned to her love of writing after a long hiatus. She has two short story collections, ‘Away...
R.H. Paris is a literary studies student at Monash University with a passion for storytelling and theory. He has recently completed his...
By Aimee Fletcher Mary stood at the counter with a warm cup of tea clutched in her hands, surrounded by the smell of baking bread, and...
Karlo Sevilla is the author of seven poetry books. The most recent is the chapbook, ‘Recumbent’ (8Letters Bookstore and Publishing,...
