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Bernie Ince

Bernie is currently completing a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. She is an aspiring romantasy writer...

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Zali Walczuk

Zali is currently completing a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne. She has a love of reading all genres and spends...

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Kai Harris

Kai is a student currently studying the Diploma for Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. He has desires to push his...

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Nikolas Farkas Bullen

Nik is currently completing a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. Nik enjoys performing spoken word poetry...

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Arjun Yattukulan

Arjun is currently completing his Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. What got him into writing were the...

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Imogen Burgess

Imogen is currently completing her diploma of professional writing and editing at Swinburne University. Her favourite reading and writing...

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Blake Stronell

Blake is an aspiring author with a passion for editing. He loves reading over a work and finding how to bring out the true power of any...

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Teesha Rae

Teesha is currently completing a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. Teesha enjoys her days where she can...

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Rohan Dalton

Rohan is currently studying a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University with a focus on developing his general...

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April Stevens

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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White on White on White

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...

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Seismic Memory

By Karlo Sevilla The mother calls her little girl’s name through the megaphone, hopes that like Lazarus, the child will arise from the...

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JFK Was Here (Dallas, TX)

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,...

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Storia’s Marks

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...

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Uncivil

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...

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MK Zariel

MK Zariel (it/its) is a transmasculine neuroqueer poet, theater artist, movement journalist, and insurrectionary anarchist. It is fueled by...

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Orphan Train

By Helene Berton The children swayed back and forth to the train’s rhythm as it travelled through the countryside until it gradually...

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Fariza Farid Memon

Fariza Farid Memon is an emerging Pakistani writer, who has done her Masters in English Language and Culture. Her works have appeared in To...

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Wolfgang Wright

Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe. His short work has appeared in over fifty literary magazines,...

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The Phone Call

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...

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Saoirse

By April Stevens Auburn, like a winter’s flame a fierce tongue, a beautiful name. Her freckles a hundred kisses on her skin, Encompassing...

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Maria Griffin

  Maria’s writing has most recently appeared in Archetype, Slippage Lit, Ghost Proposal and in a collaborative essay in Runway...

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Surveying the Border

By Matthew Davis Edward Riggs White                                                                    ...

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Peter Kaczmarczyk

Peter Kaczmarczyk, raised in Massachusetts, was willing to leave the comfort of Red Sox country when he learned there were Dunkin Donuts in...

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Letters Beneath the Floorboards

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...

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A Fire at Susa, in the Year 323 BCE

By Wolfgang Wright He had studied under Aristotle, the greatest philosopher in Greece, and yet Kalanos, this strange old man from Taxila,...

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Lexington Green

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...

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Grant Shimmin

After 30 years as a journalist/columnist, Grant Shimmin returned to poetry in earnest in 2022. He loves story, and humanity, and the...

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Rosalie Hendon

Rosalie Hendon (she/her) is an arborist living in Columbus, Ohio. Her work is published in Ravens Perch, Quibble Lit, Sad Girls Diaries,...

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Spiritual Traces

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,...

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