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Eric Tian

Eric is a medical student from Melbourne that reads and writes to better understand the world. He is interested in psychiatry and the...

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Ann Kathryn Kelly

Ann Kathryn Kelly writes from New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. She’s an editor with Barren Magazine, a columnist with WOW! Women on...

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Jon Culp

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...

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Angela Fitzpatrick

Angela studied Creative Writing with the Open University and recently embarked on an MLitt with University of Glasgow. She is the editor of...

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Rose Saltman

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...

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Van Tran

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...

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Laura Blakeley

Laura is currently undertaking a diploma of professional writing and editing at Swinburne university. A passionate story teller from a...

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A History of Chess

A HISTORY OF CHESS Mark Mitchell   I am still a victim of chess… —Marcel Duchamp   I was not born under stone mountains  in...

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This

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...

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Mark Mitchell

Mark J. Mitchell has worked in hospital kitchens, fast food, retail wine and spirits, conventions, tourism, and warehouses. He has also...

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Claire Baxter

Claire Baxter has lived in various suburbs in Melbourne, including Parkville, where the story is set. She has an interest in time,...

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Peter Loveday

Peter Loveday is a writer and singer-songwriter born in Toowoomba, Australia and living in Barcelona. Author of short story collections;...

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Anne Collins

Anne Collins writes poetry and creative non-fiction. Her sixth book is collection of poetry and prose with Spanish themes titled Listening...

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Brody Carabott

Brody is an aspiring author and student of the Diploma of professional writing and editing. Brody has worked as an editor and website...

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The Richest Man Alive

By Jesse Fleming “J.J. Astor, the richest man on board and a pariah in American polite society, was redeemed by his self-sacrificing...

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Philology

By Magdalena Ball Her grandparents were forced to take last names.   How to choose: occupation, toponym, personal qualities, lineage?...

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In an Offseason for Homecoming

By Joshua Klarica Even though I have stood here more times than I could count, in the chattering cold of mid-winters dawn, and bleaks...

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Nothing but Blue Skies

By Devika Brendon A long time ago, nearly a quarter of a century, now, I visited Iceland, during the brief summer, a place and time where...

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Varnana

by Lilanka Botejue “I am not in my right senses. Those eyes, those lips and those beautifully wide hips have long been my lure and my...

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The Poet

By Peter Loveday We climb up into the branches of the old tree, twist off the mandarins and launch them high into the air where they grow...

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Interview with Craig Sherborne

By Matthew Goodall Craig Sherborne is a poet, playwright, and novelist. His debut memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for both the Queensland...

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Violet Town

By Juliett Salom They say he was here. A horse under his legs and the world strapped on his shoulders, they say he came to rob and steal...

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Guilty Pigs Review

By Chloe Britton Written by Professors Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans from the law school of the University of Melbourne, Guilty Pigs is a...

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The Woman in the Pink Hat

By Jane Downing Rita put her lesson plan to one side in frustration. Her cup of tea was cold. In one way there was too much material on the...

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First AIDS* Funeral

By Peter Mitchell (1985) It was January. The party at the Wellington Boot raged into the night. Platters of food were spread around the...

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Me Big Day

By Alison Knight They’ll be coming to fetch me soon. It’s me big day! Lots of people out there. I can hear them through me window....

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Escape to her

By Penny George “I’m pregnant,” she said. Gabriel stood frozen. “Isn’t that wonderful news babe? I mean, of course, it’s a...

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They Hunt Us Now

By Sarah Ebner Bowes We sat, huddled together, in the corner. The sound of bodies hurling themselves at the walls and trees that surrounded...

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The Grass Hotel Review

By Matthew Goodall Craig Sherborne is a poet, playwright, and novelist. His debut memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for both the Queensland...

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I Am The Wrong Answer

By Hibah Shabkhez From the sunlit fringes of cloud Yesterday’s ghost watches You, counting your footsteps aloud Like ounces of black...

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