Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Reviews • Reviews
June 21, 2021
by Vincent Kakkos Ein Stein surprised the absolute shit out of me. As someone who hadn’t read a novel to completion in almost a...
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Interviews • Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Interviews
Interview by Vincent Kakkos Joe Reich is an author, painter and practicing ophthalmologist based here in Melbourne Australia. In 2009,...
June 15, 2021
Let me to introduce you to a few of the fabulous pieces from the upcoming issue of Backstory. From gangster grannies to broken soldiers,...
May 18, 2021
History can be fun, disastrous, atrocious, exciting and enlightening. So it’s such a shame that the typical curriculum is often...
May 4, 2021
Reading about history is important. It helps us to better understand the complex and nuanced world we traverse today. That, in turn...
Issue Ten Contributors • Past Contributors
November 23, 2020
Joshua Kepreotis is a writer born in Australia and of Greek heritage. He has published essays in 3AM Magazine and HuffingtonPost Greece,...
Issue Ten Contributors
It was Janeen O’Connell’s grandmother’s stories, told with love and pride about her Scottish family and their political will...
Issue Ten Contributors • Issue Thirteen Contributors • Past Contributors
Alison has written two novels, Peter Stone and The Close, and an anthology of stories. Her stories have also appeared in Pendulum Papers,...
Lyssa is currently completing her Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing with Swinburne University after completing her Certificate IV...
Kristy Cornell is currently studying a Bachelor of Animation at Swinburne University. Once she graduates, she would like to pursue a career...
Jane Frank is a Brisbane poet, originally from the Fraser Coast. Her latest chapbook is WIDE RIVER (Calanthe Press, 2020). Recently, her...
Vasilka Pateras is a Melbourne-based poet and emerging writer whose work is published in n-SCRIBE and Mediterranean Poetry, The Blue Nib...
Srinjay Chakravarti is a writer and editor based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. A former journalist with The Financial Times Group,...
Ellen Shelley is from Newcastle N.S.W. She is a poet who likes to write in response to real life events and emotions. Published in Eureka,...
David Atkinson is a Sydney-based poet who grew up in rural New South Wales. His poems have been published widely in magazines and...
Magdalena Ball is a novelist, poet, reviewer, interviewer, and is Managing Editor of Compulsive Reader. She is the author of several...
Mary Chydiriotis lives in Melbourne. She is passionate about coffee, dogs, books and social justice. Her poems have been published in local...
Fiction • Issue Ten • Issue Ten Fiction
by Joshua Kepreotis I knew we had docked in Melbourne because the people around me rushed to the windows of the ship to look at our new...
Issue Ten • Issue Ten Poetry • Poetry
by Jane Frank 1. Clotho I feel her thread spinning, spooling ahead through a sea of guinea grass as I run down the hill to...
by Vasilka Pateras The rust of empire has crumbled desiccated flakes float— over once traversed lands stocked with wild tribes ...
by Vasilka Pateras Monastic caves of Kalishta, stone crevasses of solitude on bare floors a monk’s prayer in worldly denial – ...
by Srinjay Chakravarti After the emperor’s head has been chopped off, the royal executioner is paid his wages by his new masters. Till...
by Michelle Freckleton Inspired by ‘The Babies in the Bush’ by Henry Lawson ‘Please, Mumma, please. I’ll hold onto...
by Kristy Cornell For my Grandad, Geoff ‘You know,’ Ernie said to no one in particular, ‘this war is a load of bollocks.’...
by Sam Johnston The beat of the mallet echoed between the cracked lime trees. The sign still crooked, the edges chipped away, but the...
by Srinjay Chakravarti The dark river, draped like a clinging wet sari around the fleshy curves of rocks and boulders. Against an...
by Ellen Shelley The old bones of this house settled around my feet, called me home. In this far from where I grew up place, I...
by David Atkinson Her brother, she must see for herself, walking south, alone; choking, astringency, fetid grit of the street. ...
by Magdalena Ball It was over in an hour a thousand people in an hour. Who dared count the weary passengers disembarking cramped...
by Magdalena Ball He knew how to read the weather, the synoptic, the radar strong winds, showers the rain was coming. He knew a...
