Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Poetry • Poetry
May 24, 2022
By Hibah Shabkhez Flocking and gawking at the piece of clay We excavate profound thoughts like toothpaste Dredged up from an empty tube....
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By Bill Cotter Memories of hay carting in the early 1960’s, Western Victoria The Bedford coughs, lurches, and stops by the hay...
By Peter Mitchell ‘They walk the edge, and from the edge fly out, testing and trying out their lives’ Potiki, Patricia Grace...
By David Atkinson Who’ll go a round or two for a pound or two? — Jimmy Sharman The town’s tough, unlimited...
Issue Thirteen Contributors • Past Contributors
Joshua Klarica is a writer from Sydney’s inner west. He recently finished up his Honours year studying English Literature at The...
Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, and a happily eccentric blogger from...
Jesse Fleming is a Chicago-based writer, editor, musician, and activist. Her work has appeared in the anthology Minnesota’s Best...
Lilanka Botejue is a Sri Lankan writer, archaeology buff & marketer with a love for music, traveling, nature and food. She is an...
Sarah is a third-year Creative Writing student at Swinburne and aspiring author of short stories and novella. She developed a passion for...
Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Contributors • Past Contributors
Matthew Goodall is a writer and student currently completing a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University....
Juliette Salom (she/her) is a writer from Naarm/Melbourne currently studying Creative Writing at RMIT University. Her writing has been...
Chloe has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and editing, and is now studying the Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing. She...
Placed Second in the inaugural (2021) Lismore Creative Writing Award (Creative Nonfiction, ‘Death Sentence’), Peter Mitchell...
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...
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....
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...
