Issue Sixteen Contributors
June 15, 2026
My name is Tom and I am a 19 year old student studying at Victoria university for a Bachelor of Community Development. I do not write...
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Ru is a writer, artist and maker from Naarm/Melbourne. They have a passion for sci-fi, online fan communities and analysing small details...
I am a writer based in Melbourne studying Games and Interactivity at Swinburne University of Technology and I typically enjoy fantasy...
Deborah writes fantasy adventures for the kinds of humans who can’t resist a mysterious door in a tree or the lure of their own private...
My name’s Blake Stronell and I’m a queer author who loves writing fiction. Be it campy romance or psychological horror, I just love...
Rob McKinnon’s poetry has been published in Meanjin Quarterly, ‘under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology’, Forty South...
Steve Evans has won and been shortlisted for various major Australian and international prizes. He has written 10 poetry collections, most...
My name is Samantha Medina Diaz and I’m 21 years old. I was born and raised in Australia. I started to write stories when I was 9 years...
Issue Sixteen • Poetry
By Steve Evans one of glass one of water one of ice one of barbed wire one of leather one of dust one of love letters one of...
By Steve Evans London grows upward, constantly burying its past in layers for supposed progress or repair, but digging for a new sewer can...
By Rob McKinnon London, 1 August 1801 Warm summer breeze caressing your young cold wet body, Who is missing you tonight? Darkness...
By Kitty Owens A pilgrimage. The Murtoa Stick Shed, aka The Cathedral of the Wimmera. Dusty roads lead to the urn at the gate. Fortifying...
Kitty Owens is a writer, artist, and museum curator whose work is concerned with history and memory. She has created publications and...
By Kitty Owens Looking at an old photo of the lake there is a delicious moment as I get my bearings. The shock of the old. Throngs of...
Skylar Lee is a second year Media and Communications student at Swinburne University of Technology, majoring in Creative Writing and...
By Samantha Medina Diaz Here is the story of how women fight for equality to have an education. A woman can be smart but also strong and...
Siobhan is a writer originally from Canberra who is now based in Naarm/Melbourne. She writes a mix of fiction and non-fiction. She was...
Ruby Hanlon is a Bachelor of Arts student at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Psychology with electives in Scriptwriting and Short...
Fiction • Issue Sixteen
By Skylar Lee Over the seas and past the horizon, where time and men were always young, lived a group of people. They had once hunted...
Joshua Dyson is a 21 year old writer from Melbourne. His work explores masculine insecurity, vulnerability, and the devastation of...
By Deborah McDonnell The forest was deep and silent. Silent in the busy, noisy way that wasn’t in fact quiet, but rather lacked the...
By Isaac Law ‘I wish to go back in time,’ Tristan said, cradling the kettle, ‘redo my life with all my current memories,’ he...
By Siobhan Lake Slumped on a park bench and still grasping the letter that had been sitting in her mailbox all week, Hilda accepts that...
By Tom Gruer It had been a cold winter in the French commune of Hesdin. Fourteen kilometres from the site of the battle of Agincourt that...
By Ru Solis In the late 23rd century, it had become abundantly clear that the advancement of technology on Earth had surpassed the...
By Ruby Hanlon Trigger warning: Contains themes of death, suicide and execution by hanging They say it was me. That I cast a spell on that...
By Blake Stronell I know why you’re here. Skip your pleasantries, don’t bother with your name. I don’t care. Sit down, and don’t...
By Ruby Hanlon This poem explores the fragmented inner consciousness of a 19th-century woman struggling with rigid domestic expectations,...
By Joshua Dyson The things I write are buried, hidden because I’m certain it’s not good. Worse than that, I don’t want someone to...
Editorial Team
Siena is currently completing a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing. She enjoys reading, live music & beach days. Siena has...
