Past Contributors
December 15, 2018
Natalie D-Napoleon is a writer, singer-songwriter and educator from Fremantle, Australia who now lives in California. For 20 plus years she...
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Interviews • Issue Six • Issue Six Interviews
You’ve said in the past that you felt writing chose you. Where did it all begin for you and what motivated you to pursue writing? As a...
Patrick Stack lives in County Clare, in Ireland’s mid-West region where he works as a part-time Adult Education teacher and Web...
Anne Elvey’s publications include White on White(Cordite 2018), Kin(FIP 2014), and five chapbooks, most recently Il ricordo: six days in...
Jenny Blackford lives in Newcastle, Australia. Her poems and stories have appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, Westerly, Going Down...
Issue Six • Issue Six Book Reviews • Reviews
by Savannah White “…Swayed by her passion, the Creator granted her wish. The star was born in human form and lived a human life. All...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “For years she had imagined these plants belonged to the animal kingdom: hippopotamus; rhinoceros; agapanthus....
Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Poetry
By Nuala O’Connor Frida Kahlo likes to walk in colour, but she is hard-pushed on Society Street. We wander together up...
Marley Stuart is an Assistant Editor of Louisiana Literature and a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. His stories and poems...
Michael Aiken is a parent of four, living and working in Sydney. His first book, A Vicious Example, was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor...
by Cynthia D. Nelson The Darmstadt Year I read out the sign at our new base: ...
by Anne Elvey baíte tipiche typical huts formaggio cheese taleggio ...
by Jenny Blackford The lumpy wrinkled flesh of some great ancient beast a woolly mammoth or elasmothere lies mummified beside the Hume...
My first four books for Young Adults were ‘Dolly Fiction’ novels published under the pseudonym of Gerri Lapin. My first book under my...
Sandra Renew’scurrent project is on the interrogation of gender presentation and the LGBTIQAA gender discourses. Her published poetry...
Fiction • Issue Six • Issue Six Fiction
By Goldie Alexander. Brett is setting himself up in the middle of Station Street where anyone driving past will see him. He’s brought...
by Patrick Stack A long way off Through fog that veils all else Faint voice is heard So faint no mortal ear Can catch the pitch Save...
by Vashti Farrer It was a fella at work gave Joe the name and an address in Kings Cross. ‘Ask for Mick.’ Joe planned on...
By Natalie D-Napoleon First, a star must be formed; bodies colliding into hot bodies through infinite time and space...
By Denise O’Hagan We shrugged at bomb scares at school Locked our doors, watched our bags and our steps And skirted any lone bag...
by Fiona Perry A collection of mementoes to stimulate long term memory and a sense of identity in dementia patients. Inside:...
by Jenny Blackford Coventry Cathedral had been bombed, I knew, during the last great conflagration of the world, had lost some of its roof...
By Wendy J. Dunn When we arrived Another car was there Strangers at the Lookout We gathered together And gazed at the hills...
Issue Six • Past Contributors
Brian Jerrold Koester is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best of the Net Anthology nominee. His chapbook, Bossa Nova,is published by River...
Nuala O’Connor lives in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Ireland. Her fifth short story collection Joyride to Jupiter was published by New...
Samantha is an Australian-born writer from a Latino family. She typically writes fantasy, however, she occasionally tackles other areas of...
By Cheryl Pearson Quick to scuttle in with the cattle sick, or an ankle twisted fat on a root – the caps wring flat by...
Fiona’s short stories and poetry have been published in The Irish Literary Review, Spontaneity Magazine, Into The Void, Dodging The Rain...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop. “But tonight the air was precarious. All sandstone shadow, smudgy. She thought that time was like this too, a...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “The murky water stretched out between her and the shore, the gap becoming further than she could leap. The...
