Fiction • Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Fiction
June 22, 2021
by Amy Bertacco A building is only a building until it means something to someone. I was nothing until the people of Alexandria,...
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by Miles Boyle-Bryant ‘A fucking woman? I ask for help, and they send a fucking woman?’ ‘Mr. Watkins, I promise you I-’ ‘I...
Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Non-Fiction • Non-Fiction
by Dilini Fredrick My grandmother on my mum’s side, Charlotte Nona (Nona is a Sinhalese word for ‘madam’ or ‘lady’), had...
by Melissa King It’s mid-morning on a temperate autumn day in 2020, during the early stages of Victoria’s first COVID-19...
by Sam Johnston My hands descend into the abyss of shredded bags and rotting food, digging around for the toy. I haven’t even...
Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Reviews • Reviews
by Angela Wauchop ‘But there is a lot Keledi does not know. You haven’t told her about the big plane that took Baba up in the...
Past Contributors
Josh is a student at the Swinburne University of Technology, and studying for a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing. He enjoys...
by Peter Loveday In the afternoon we go down to the vegetable patch to dig up the cat we buried there. No matter how far down we...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop ‘Was it the malevolence of bitch girls and the opulence ranking of their homes? The spite of...
by Jessica Roscioli There’s something about the night sky that sparks deep nostalgia within me. It’s abundant in hues of deep...
by Josh Kee Era of Plastic. When Raegan Passed new toy laws, Hasbro wanted stake. Seeking new concepts, Hasbro went to the...
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...
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...
