Issue Thirteen Contributors • Past Contributors
May 24, 2022
Placed Second in the inaugural (2021) Lismore Creative Writing Award (Creative Nonfiction, ‘Death Sentence’), Peter Mitchell...
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Teneille lives in regional Victoria and is currently completing her Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne...
Past Contributors
May 10, 2022
Grace Hall is a writer and editor based in Naarm (Melbourne), currently studying Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne. Her writing...
Flynn is a philosophy graduate, musician, and Tasmanian ex-pat. His passion for realist fiction, and for writing stories about the human...
Chloe has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and editing, and is now studying the Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing. She...
Bradley Macleod is a Melbourne-based writing student currently studying the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne...
Luke Edwards is a Melbourne-based writing student currently completing the Diploma in Writing and Editing at Swinburne University with...
Raquel has a background in performance and science. She is still trying to work out what she wants to do when she grows up. She loves...
Safia is undertaking a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. She enjoys many types of fiction and...
Kristian Larin is a student currently studying Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing in Swinburne. He is studying to complete diploma...
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Dean Jacgung is a 21 year old aspiring writer studying a Diploma of professional writing and editing at Swinburne University in Hawthorne....
Matthew Goodall is a writer and student currently completing a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University....
May 3, 2022
Amber is currently studying Professional writing and editing at Swinburne. In the future, she hopes to use the knowledge gained from the...
Blog
April 26, 2022
As the easter holidays have just passed and for all those lucky ones who got to travel, I thought with the theme of number 13, it was a...
April 5, 2022
This month we have been hearing a lot about the Ukraine and Russia so I would like to talk a little bit about the history of south-east...
March 22, 2022
With Backstory issue 13 coming out, it seemed an opportune time to look at the history of Friday 13th – and why it has become such an...
Issue Twelve • Issue Twelve Book Reviews • Reviews
November 25, 2021
by Ferris Knight ‘The fact that gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns are invented over and over again, often by people completely...
Fiction • Issue Twelve • Issue Twelve Fiction
Ian Reid PROMISES He was no longer sure of his whereabouts. He felt not only out of place, but also dislodged from the...
by Vashti Farrer They had swept Mother under their sideboard minds. Like dust. ‘She seemed quite happy when we left her and the...
by Jack Hutchinson From time to time I miss my old man. But missing is just memory and memories are a funny thing. I mean, they’re...
Issue Twelve • Issue Twelve Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
by Eden Young. There are roughly 6500 languages in the world today. Despite being a third-generation immigrant, I am fluent in only...
by Shannon Blake It was too late to stow the typewriter and the photographs away. I could hear Keith stomping on the veranda,...
by Nicolas Brasch Eugen Bacon is a critical voice in Australian literature, one that probes and prods, questions and enlightens. She is an...
by Malina Douglas Cara felt tense. She had never done this, yet a need she could not completely explain had driven her to it. The...
by Daniela Abriola Betty Mullan—Monday, June 28th 2021 I hadn’t known my Great Uncle Douglas, but apparently, he thought I was...
by Radhiya Fanham ‘Do not mention it, my dear Eliza. it would give me immense satisfaction if I could make myself of use to...
Jahin Tanvir Absence Sergei sat upon the cool patch of grass, his torn trousers up the damp morning dew as he overlooked the sunset. The...
by Shawnee Neal Sitting comfortably in the corner of the American Bar of the Stafford Hotel in London is a small, unassuming chair...
Issue Twelve • Issue Twelve Poetry • Poetry
by Mary Chydiriotis (Lesvos, Greece, 1942) Artemis is small and nimble apron loaded with courgettes pockets crammed with parsley...
