Issue Nine • Issue Nine Poetry • Poetry
June 15, 2020
by Angela Costi – 1965, Regatta Hotel, QLD Rosalie and Merle clasped their ‘cold ones’, forced their smiles,...
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Issue Nine • Issue Nine Book Reviews
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “‘As a girl, I believed the movement of the stars made music we did not even...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “When our light laughter—mine more forced than hers—fades, I lift my gaze to the veil and the...
Issue Nine • Issue Nine Fiction
by Vashti Farrer She never got over it. It ate away like an ulcer once it took hold, him being her first child. A sickly child,...
by James Walton Sometimes it was my turn to buy the shilling’s worth of broken biscuits from the new Summerhill shops then...
Issue Nine • Issue Nine Author Interviews
About the author: Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of My Name Is Revenge, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital...
Issue Nine • Issue Nine Poetry
by Jenny Blackford After the Old Babylonian sculptured plaque in the British Museum I Claw-footed goddess strong as death,...
Raissa is a fresh graduate of the University of Melbourne. She majored in Anthropology and Criminology but has always held creative writing...
Interviews • Issue Nine • Issue Nine Author Interviews
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Issue Nine Contributors • Past Contributors
Hugh McMillan is a well published and award winning poet from south west Scotland. You can find out more on his website here:...
James Walton was a librarian, a farm labourer, and mostly a public sector union official. He is published in many anthologies, journals,...
Rue Baldry lives in Yorkshire, Great Britain. Her short stories have been published in journals such as Litro, MIR Online, Postbox, Ambit,...
Chris Armstrong is a writer whose poetry has appeared in Australian literary journals including Griffith Review, Cordite, Overland,...
A Melbourne-based poet with a long history of working in the social justice sector and also as a freelance community writer....
Edna Heled is an artist, art therapist, counsellor and travel journalist living in New Zealand. Her writing includes short stories, poetry,...
Issue Eight Contributor • Past Contributors
December 5, 2019
Jas Rose has completed her Bachelor in Film and Digital Media and is currently working on her Master of Writing with Swinburne University....
December 2, 2019
Peter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He has had eight books of poetry published and seven books as a translator. In...
2019 HNSA Short Story Contest • Issue Eight Contributor
December 1, 2019
Lou Greene has spent most of her life trotting the globe: Fiji-born, Lou has also lived in Kiribati, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sulawesi, Germany,...
Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern suburbs of Sydney NSW surrounded by bush. Marilyn is leader of Bottlebrush Tanka Group, and member...
Fiction • Issue Eight • Issue Eight Fiction.
By Mori Shige. Translated by Marissa Skeels. Mori Shige (1880-1938) was a university-educated, headstrong feminist writer from...
2019 HNSA Short Story Contest • Fiction • Issue Eight • Issue Eight Fiction.
by Christina King. Winner of the HNSA 2019 Short Story Contest Just fuzz. Like the fur of a sewer rat. She ran her hand over her head...
by Julie Parry The kitchen door was slightly ajar. I bobbed gingerly from side to side, squinting into the sliver of light. I was no...
Issue Eight • Issue Eight Fiction.
by Jasmeka Rose. December 1942 Germany. The whir whir whir of fast machinery fills the air. The fresh, sweet scent of newly cut...
Issue Eight • Issue Eight Reviews • Reviews
Reviewed by Dr Wendy J. Dunn. “… She went to bed and dreamed she was lying in a garden. It was night time, the moon a glowing...
2019 HNSA Short Story Contest • Fiction • Issue Eight Fiction.
by Lou Greene. Commended story in the 2019 HNSA short story contest. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop, my mother used to say. I...
By Lauren O’Connell ’By god! It’s bees!’ The spyglass slipped from my fingers and rolled along the deck, its rumble in...
Issue Eight • Issue Eight Poetry • Poetry
By Anna Forsyth Someone slides open a drawer carefully her gloved hands steady from practice. Hector’s locked box was at the...
By Devika Brendon Like a marmoset With those gripping fingers Surprising strength Stretched out full length Ears like a headset How...
