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Glass-Panes Make Things Unkickable

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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Blisters

By Bill Cotter Memories of hay carting in the early 1960’s, Western Victoria   The Bedford coughs, lurches, and stops by the hay...

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Edward Levenson

By Peter Mitchell ‘They walk the edge, and from the edge fly out, testing and trying out their lives’ Potiki, Patricia Grace...

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The Sweet Science

By David Atkinson Who’ll go a round or two for a pound or two? —  Jimmy Sharman   The town’s tough, unlimited...

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Joshua Klarica

Joshua Klarica is a writer from Sydney’s inner west. He recently finished up his Honours year studying English Literature at The...

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Hibah Shabkhez

Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, and a happily eccentric blogger from...

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Jesse Fleming

Jesse Fleming is a Chicago-based writer, editor, musician, and activist. Her work has appeared in the anthology Minnesota’s Best...

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Lilanka Botejue

Lilanka Botejue is a Sri Lankan writer, archaeology buff & marketer with a love for music, traveling, nature and food. She is an...

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Sarah Ebner Bowes

Sarah is a third-year Creative Writing student at Swinburne and aspiring author of short stories and novella. She developed a passion for...

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Matthew Goodall

Matthew Goodall is a writer and student currently completing a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University....

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Juliette Salom

Juliette Salom (she/her) is a writer from Naarm/Melbourne currently studying Creative Writing at RMIT University. Her writing has been...

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Chloe Britton

Chloe has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and editing, and is now studying the Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing. She...

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Peter Mitchell

Placed Second in the inaugural (2021) Lismore Creative Writing Award (Creative Nonfiction, ‘Death Sentence’), Peter Mitchell...

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Teneille Pedrina

Teneille lives in regional Victoria and is currently completing her Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne...

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Grace Hall

Grace Hall is a writer and editor based in Naarm (Melbourne), currently studying Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne. Her writing...

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Flynn Martin

Flynn is a philosophy graduate, musician, and Tasmanian ex-pat. His passion for realist fiction, and for writing stories about the human...

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Teneille Pedrina

Teneille lives in regional Victoria and is currently completing her Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne...

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Chloe Britton

Chloe has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and editing, and is now studying the Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing. She...

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Bradley Macleod

Bradley Macleod is a Melbourne-based writing student currently studying the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne...

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Luke Edwards

Luke Edwards is a Melbourne-based writing student currently completing the Diploma in Writing and Editing at Swinburne University with...

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Raquel Ashton

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...

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Safia Manetto Quick

Safia is undertaking a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. She enjoys many types of fiction and...

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Kristian Larin

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

Dean Jacgung is a 21 year old aspiring writer studying a Diploma of professional writing and editing at Swinburne University in Hawthorne....

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Matthew Goodall

Matthew Goodall is a writer and student currently completing a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University....

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Amber Williams

Amber is currently studying Professional writing and editing at Swinburne. In the future, she hopes to use the knowledge gained from the...

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Lucky 13

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...

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Troubling times

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...

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The history behind Friday the 13th

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...

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Book Review—What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He & She by Dennis Baron

by Ferris Knight   ‘The fact that gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns are invented over and over again, often by people completely...

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