Issue Eight • Issue Eight Poetry • Poetry
December 1, 2019
By Kristen de Kline, + we loved like demons our kisses, fresh and fugitive we snorted lines as Cave wrestled skeleton trees crooned...
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by Peter Boyle. Saint Germain des près, St Martins in the Fields — what are so many churches doing in the meadows? Why are...
Anthony Lawrence has published fifteen books of poetry and a novel. His books and individual poems have won a number of awards, most...
By Bernadette Gallagher. He talked of grey, of blue, purple and all the possible pigments that make up grey. He talked of trees, of...
Issue Eight Contributor • Past Contributors
Bernadette Gallagher was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1959 and has been living in the countryside of Co. Cork since 1986. She worked...
JW Burns lives in Florida. Recent publications in Rialto, Adelaide, Menacing Hedge and The Squawk Back....
Les Wicks achieved the rank of Assistant Station Master in the the 1980s . He qualified in basic accounting, signal box operation,...
By Matthew M.C. Smith Dream on a breeze of summer eve’s tree-dappled light Do not fear the advancing shadows Let Autumn storms...
2019 HNSA Short Story Contest • Past Contributors
Attending both Sydney and Wollongong Universities, Dr Brand has three degrees in education and taught in state high schools. She was...
Anna Forsyth is an editor, poet and event manager. In 2014, she founded Girls on Key, a feminist poetry organisation, that now hosts...
Matthew M C Smith is a poet from Swansea, Wales. He is particularly interested in mythic, historic, cosmic and neo-romantic poetry....
By Bernadette Gallagher For John Philip You came already formed a silken scarf blowing in the wind. To unravel would...
Interviews • Issue Eight • Issue Eight Interviews
Interviewer: Samuel Elliott What is Voices of Women? Voices of Women is a not for profit organisation to support new work by Australian...
Drucilla Wall’s book of poetry is The Geese at the Gates, published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. Her co-edited collection, Thinking...
Issue Eight • Issue Eight Reviews
Reviewed by Thomas Van Essen. Laura Rahme, Sydney-based writer of The Ming Storytellers(2012) and The Mascherati: A Novel of...
By Robyn Rowland whirling Dervish, Istanbul Unworn as any adolescent son, the youngest Mevlani Dervish trembling on the cusp...
Fiction • Issue Eight • Issue Eight Fiction.
by Sue Robertson We were in our front field, shepherding our little flock of sheep. A motley crew made up of children, old people, and...
By Matthew M.C. Smith for Anne We fly over girded earth trailing the rise of Apollo light thousands of feet high The...
By Marilyn Humbert west of Alice Springs the Finke River rambles roots of ancient eucalypts Namatjira paints his soul ghost...
Robyn Rowland is Irish-Australian who has been living in both Connemara and Australia. She regularly works in Turkey. She has 15 books, 12...
Eden van Leeuwen is an amateur writer for 19 years. Creating wonderful worlds in her words and sharing them with others, she hopes to...
Lauren O’Connell is an Irish-Australian emerging writer. She has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing from Swinburne...
by Samuel Bernard. The radiating aroma of aging books and mahogany grazed my nostrils as I brushed past mountains of pre-loved...
Issue Eight • Issue Eight Reviews • Reviews
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “… Vrezh stomped the blood-red flags with enthusiasm … The older boys poured kerosene on the heap...
By Dr Wendy J. Dunn Red like blood I plucked a rose Grasped its beauty close to me uncaring of its thorns Blood red red blood...
by Peter Boyle. The lost cantatas of Mozart are being performed on an island in the wide fork of a river not far from here....
by Ian C Smith. To visit their son, a bearded adult now in what feels to him a fast-forwarding of years, she drives him to the...
Issue Seven Contributor • Past Contributors
June 18, 2019
Gary McCartney is a designer, artist and writer originally from Northern Ireland. His company, McCartney Design, has won several Australian...
Brittney Alexander is currently studying professional writing and editing at Swinburne University. In her spare time, she enjoys reading...
June 17, 2019
Stuart Barnes was born and grew up in Hobart and lived in Melbourne for seventeen years before moving to Rockhampton. His first poetry...
