Issue Four • Poetry
December 6, 2017
By Tess Barry Out of her twig-filled lungs a strong wind whirls she is a small stream obstructed a standing body...
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By Tess Barry Eat lemon altogether, she says, cold go out. What you play? Luna Sonata? My fevered fingers stumble through...
(Bridget Cox Bishop, 1848-1912) By Geoff Budden J Cox and his five sons lost in their boat off the Harbor April 24, 1859....
By Geoff Budden At home in taverns, not in homes, you left when your daughter was four years old. Your own final home was a needle...
By Dr Wendy J Dunn Lest we forget The First World War They said Ground soaked With blood With countless dead Lest we forget Another...
Past Contributors
Fiona Lynch has had poems published in Ireland and Australia, and has been short-listed in national and international poetry...
By Jordan King-Lacroix I. On a leaky boat, they came, needing to change their name once, in the village to sound less Jewish...
By Jordan King-Lacroix The clouds, ha! The clouds! Did you see them when they passed overhead? So slow, like molasses,...
By Eleanor Hooker Ghost me. Fossil me. ...
By Nathanael O’Reilly In a centuries-old English church where Jane Austen worshipped, my daughter performs her role on the steps...
By Kenneth Pobo My grandmother’s house, weathered, a dirt driveway. When I visit she makes a cherry pie. I help her pit. She tells...
By Jonathan Greenwood This palace, ’tis a thing of splendour and class With chimneys of pepperpot and weathervanes of brass;...
By Anne Casey A penny in a new purse (that it may never be empty) The Child of Prague left out all night (to bring a dry day for the...
Issue Four • Non-Fiction
By Diane Murray In 2007, I set out to write the biography of Marion Leathem, who operated the Molong Express and Western District...
By Cheryl Hayden Introduction In the latter part of the 20th Century, a new historiography emerged through the University of Exeter...
Diane Murray is an interior architect, writer and poet. She was awarded her PhD from Swinburne University on the subject of Marion Leathem...
By Glenice Whitting There once was a drummer who’s name was Oskar, who lost his mother who ate too much fish. There once was...
Glenice Whitting was born in Melbourne Australia during the Second World War. At the age of fifty, returning to study as a mature age...
Interviews • Issue Four
By Oscar O’Neill-Pugh and Senaj Alijevski The subeditors at Backstory were fortunate to be able to interview Justin Sheedy, an author...
Jonathan Greenwood is 20 years old and has been constantly writing since the age of five. “I’ve always been fascinated by words and how...
Kenneth Pobo has a new book out from Circling Rivers called Loplop in a Red City. His work has appeared in: Colorado Review, Mudfish,...
Nathanael O’Reilly was born and raised in Australia. He has travelled on five continents and spent extended periods in England, Ireland,...
Eleanor Hooker’s second collection, A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) was published in October 2016. Her first, The Shadow Owner’s...
Jordan King-LaCroix has Master of Creative Writing from the University of Sydney. His first play, The Catastrophists, was presented at the...
Geoff Budden lives in St John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, where he practices law. He is the father of two teenage...
Tess Barry was shortlisted for the 2015 Manchester Poetry Prize (UK). Twice a finalist for North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry...
On November 2011, Michael D. Higgins was inaugurated as the ninth President of Ireland. A passionate political voice, a poet and writer,...
By Gillian Polack History and the past give us cultural tools. They help us interpret our world. Novels use history and create...
August 9, 2017
A Queenslander (born 1946) he was educated in Toowoomba. For some years he worked as a printer in various locations in Queensland, New...
June 29, 2017
Sophie Myers is a Masters of Writing student at Swinburne based in Brisbane. Her dream is to own a library large enough to justify a...
