Issue Four • Non-Fiction
December 6, 2017
By Gillian Polack History and the past give us cultural tools. They help us interpret our world. Novels use history and create...
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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...
Past Contributors
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...
June 25, 2017
I am incredibly proud of being the Co-Senior Editor of Other Terrain and Backstory. Backstory is particularly special to me. I cannot...
Fiction • Issue Three
June 17, 2017
By Judy Rigby They threw my children overboard. That’s what the doctor tells me, but I know it isn’t true. They are here with me in the...
By Amanda Pearson Midday, Wednesday 2 February 1994. We gather. An unlikely group, our papery skins nearly transparent, eyes watery,...
By Amanda Pearson November 1914 Harold enlisted last week. He made the three-hour journey up to Adelaide by train and joined the army. I...
By Louise Hopewell Edie had only just made it along the driveway and out onto the footpath, but already her bunions were rubbing...
By Chris Childs Werribee Park, Victoria, Australia 25 June 1887 ‘Careful, Constable that might be important evidence!’ ...
Issue Three • Poetry
By Jan Price Panel l. The Inspiration London – East End; a barefoot lad slips into...
By Chris Childs I am Caroline, Madame Carole, Carrie. I wonder how history will remember me? Will anyone remember Miss...
By Bill Cotter Suffer little children to come unto me: for such is the kingdom of heaven. The sky sickens And fuses darkness,...
By Jan Price Down the arch-groan monastery road coursing these treeless bitten mountains a sharp dismissive wind snatches from the...
By Jan Price Once, when I was four you carried me home on your shoulders over a long bridge. Once, you and I sang The...
By Jan Price Each chosen child destined to live in its own desert one night will look up; the trees will be breathless and the pain...
By Wendy J. Dunn From a postcard He glares at me With an eagle stare Accusingly And handsome No doubt of that His very stance...
By Fiona Lynch When she was four, white boys asked to touch her hand, to compare; her mother slapped her face, not her place. ...
By Melinda Jane Your sea soft, melancholy blue eyes Your long, slender Celtic hands Your long, curled locked hair You, at 19 years...
By Melinda Jane How many heard your mooted screams that Sunday evening At Mrs. Mitchell’s paddock between the house and the hay...
By Melinda Jane Floor-grazing gown cinched at the waist silhouette black crepe crisp and crimped who would imagine three years on...
June 16, 2017
By Bill Cotter The storm rambles and tramps, hammering pine trees, Strafing crops and, from the tangled clouds, spilling jags Of...
Stitched Up Project
Backstory is proud to present excerpts from the ‘Stitched Up’ project, by poet Anne Casey and artist Jane Theau. In...
Issue Thirteen Contributors • Past Contributors
Bill Cotter is a retired teacher who has been writing poetry and prose for almost forty years. His work has appeared in magazines and...
June 15, 2017
Judy Rigby completed the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at the CAE in 2014 and is working on a number of fiction pieces...
Amanda (Pand) Pearson should complete her Masters of Arts in Writing at Swinburne in 2017. She holds a Diploma of Professional Writing and...
Louise is an Australian writer, poet and songwriter. Louise suffers from itchy feet and has lived and worked in Thailand, Japan and a...
Interviews • Issue Three
By Sophie Myers Sandra Gulland is the internationally celebrated author of number of historical novels, such as the Josephine B....
Chris has a passion for writing 19th century Australian history. A BA in Psychology and MA in Biography & Life Writing have influenced...
By Sophie Meyers What motivated you to start writing? I decided to become a writer at the age of 8. I can’t really remember why now, but...
By Senaj Alijevski What challenges and experiences inspired your novels? I love when someone tells me a story. I think this love for...
