Issue Fifteen Contributors
June 10, 2025
Isabelle P. Byrne is a published poet and award winning short film maker. Isabelle’s work delves into themes of identity, mental health,...
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Emmitt Barnes is a teacher and author based in San Bernardino, California. His work has been featured in Skateism Magazine and The Pacific...
Matthew is a chef that has been working in the ski resorts and suburbs of Victoria, Australia for almost 10 years. Now, with the plan to...
Issue Fifteen • Poetry
By Maria Griffin here, a thing. behind it: another. there, a third. three things sit, each in its place, as if arranged, pleasingly...
Issue Fifteen • Non-Fiction
By MK Zariel since middle school, when i’ve had an interpersonal conflict, i’ve handled it the normal way—talking to friends, to a...
Native New Yorker Helene Berton has returned to her love of writing after a long hiatus. She has two short story collections, ‘Away...
R.H. Paris is a literary studies student at Monash University with a passion for storytelling and theory. He has recently completed his...
Fiction • Issue Fifteen
By Aimee Fletcher Mary stood at the counter with a warm cup of tea clutched in her hands, surrounded by the smell of baking bread, and...
Karlo Sevilla is the author of seven poetry books. The most recent is the chapbook, ‘Recumbent’ (8Letters Bookstore and Publishing,...
Issue Fifteen
By Grant Shimmin It’s cup final day in dusty Duduza¹ east of Johannesburg Not that anyone’s playing football here in this place they...
Past Contributors
June 6, 2023
Ryu is a writing student at Swinburne, born and raised in Melbourne’s south. From a young age he has held a strong love of contemporary...
Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Poetry • Poetry
CONTENT WARNING : This work contains material that some readers may find disturbing; please continue at your own discretion. Confession at...
Irish Green Ann Kathryn Kelly I am from an Irish Clan’s love, strong as bedrock, deep as ocean. The baby in the family almost...
Lingchi Jon Culp i Inherited a pair of right-handed scissors- from depths of the basket of twist-thread and patterns beside...
Fiction • Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Fiction
Diamond Beach Days Angela Fitzpatrick 1965 Daisy sat at the café table gazing out the window at the promenade as tears ran down...
The Magic Cow Eric Tian The cow came in March. By May, it was all over. I must write this down so I, too, do not forget our history. It...
The Golden Apple Eric Tian It took place at midnight, on the field across the bank. My acquaintance stepped out of the boat,...
Issue Fourteen • Issue Fourteen Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
Number One Story Street By Claire Baxter John I remember Christmas day. It might have been Christmas 1940 – maybe 1939 – when...
In Search of Identity Rose Saltman In 1994, I voted in the elections of two countries. I was a citizen of only one of them. ...
Issue Fourteen Contributors • Issue Fourteen Contributors • Past Contributors
Eric is a medical student from Melbourne that reads and writes to better understand the world. He is interested in psychiatry and the...
Ann Kathryn Kelly writes from New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. She’s an editor with Barren Magazine, a columnist with WOW! Women on...
Jon Culp began writing in the high mountain desert of North Central Washington. He and his wife of 30 years now live in Bellingham where...
Angela studied Creative Writing with the Open University and recently embarked on an MLitt with University of Glasgow. She is the editor of...
Rose Saltman is an urban planner, writer and editor who lives in Sydney, Australia. She has a Master of Arts in Non-fiction Writing from...
Van is a student of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne, and she is completing diploma at the end of this year. She loves reading...
Laura is currently undertaking a diploma of professional writing and editing at Swinburne university. A passionate story teller from a...
A HISTORY OF CHESS Mark Mitchell I am still a victim of chess… —Marcel Duchamp I was not born under stone mountains in...
This Peter Loveday If all the lines begin with who, or why, or how pointing directly at what they want to know what hope is there in...
June 3, 2023
Mark J. Mitchell has worked in hospital kitchens, fast food, retail wine and spirits, conventions, tourism, and warehouses. He has also...
Claire Baxter has lived in various suburbs in Melbourne, including Parkville, where the story is set. She has an interest in time,...
