Interviews • Issue seven • Issue seven interviews
June 16, 2019
By Nik Eugeniou. Ali Whitelock is a Scottish poet and writer living in Australia. Her first book, ‘Poking seaweed with a stick and...
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Issue seven • Issue Seven Reviews • Uncategorised
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “You thought everything was laid up and settled, long ago, and there it would be, suddenly reaching out...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Fiction
by Laura Wild After lunch, the kids want sharks. Barry squints behind his shades as sunlight gives way to the deep shadows of...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Contributor • Issue seven interviews
Interviewed by Samuel Elliott. About the poet: Magi Gibson has held three Scottish Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships and one Royal...
by Karen Lethlean During my teenage years, summertime meant heat and boredom. As if an offering to Sun Gods, I laid out on a blanket...
Issue Seven Contributor • Past Contributors
Anne Connor is a Melbourne writer of fiction and non-fiction. For over two decades she has worked in the writing space, with articles...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Poetry
By Bernadette O’Reilly In the hallway He places a hand On my bottom Before going into mass I turn furiously Tongue explodes I...
By Jenny Blackford Cold left-over lamb sat on a flawed floral serving plate in the icebox. Just a thin crack nothing that...
By Vashti Farrer Let’s not prejudge him, scorn, deride, decide, dispense with. Hard not to. Hosts of Dickens’ grizzled...
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro is the author of Miriam the Medium (Simon & Schuster, 2004). Her essays, poetry, short stories have been...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Reviews
By Thomas Van Essen. Hachette, Non-Fiction, 292 pages “People don’t join cults because they’re stupid or bad people. They...
By Mari Maxwell ...
Issue Seven Contributor
May 24, 2019
Thomas van Essen is a philosophy and literature undergrad at the Swinburne University of Technology. An avid reader of speculative fiction...
Past Contributors
December 19, 2018
Cheryl Pearson is the author of Oysterlight (Pindrop Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including The...
December 18, 2018
Denise is an editor by trade. Born in Italy, she lived in the UK before emigrating to Australia. She holds an MA in Bibliography and...
Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also...
December 15, 2018
Jayant Kashyap’s poetry appears in The Ekphrastic Review, Barren and StepAway magazines, among others; one of his poems was featured...
Paul Casey has published poems in journals and anthologies in Ireland and around the world. His most recent collection is Virtual...
Fiction • Issue Six Fiction • Issues
Good historical fiction draws the reader into a world from the past, bringing to life events, characters and lessons that often ring true...
Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Poetry
“The road is full of perfume. Urine. Bile. Death.” These nine initial words from Jayant Kashyap’s poem ‘History’ in this issue...
Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Issues • Poetry
By Jayant Kashyap * The road is full of perfume. Urine. Bile. Death. People walk the road, up and down, in high boots, heads...
by Kevin Higgins You knew for a fact, they’d never allow a pair of mad eyes with a pistol near the Emperor and his wife; and...
by Carol Major. Dian Wellfare is the founder of Origins, an organisation lobbying on behalf of birth mothers who relinquished babies for...
Fiction • Genres • Issue Six • Issue Six Fiction
by Samantha Pena Roshier ‘That’s the thing, Mary. They’ll tell you love is the most beautiful thing on earth and then they’ll...
By Reece Pye The next thing he remembers, after the bitch spat in his eye, is face planting on the footpath. There is a dull ringing in...
Issue Ten Contributors • Past Contributors
Reece Pye is a former undergraduate student of Swinburne University who graduated with a BA in Professional Writing & Editing in...
By Michael Aiken Beelzebub fallen to disease, absent himself willfully, to muster some inkling, some new insight born of nothing...
By Jack B. Bedell My daughter has been watching the news every night this week, anxious for word on the soccer team...
Fiction • Issue Six • Issue Six Fiction
by Savannah White. ‘Hush now, Lucas.’ A flash of light shone through the cracks of timber; Mama smiles at me before the light...
Interviews • Issue Six • Issue Six Interviews • Issue Six Podcasts • Podcasts
Oscar O’Neil-Pugh speaks to Katya de Becerra....
