Issue Seven Contributor • Past Contributors
June 18, 2019
Gary McCartney is a designer, artist and writer originally from Northern Ireland. His company, McCartney Design, has won several Australian...
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Brittney Alexander is currently studying professional writing and editing at Swinburne University. In her spare time, she enjoys reading...
June 17, 2019
Stuart Barnes was born and grew up in Hobart and lived in Melbourne for seventeen years before moving to Rockhampton. His first poetry...
Amanda Bell is a Dublin-based writer and editor. Her books include The loneliness of the sasquatch – from the Irish of Gabriel Rosenstock...
June 16, 2019
Audrey Molloy is an emerging Irish poet living in Sydney. Her poetry has appeared in The North, Magma, The Moth, Meanjin, Cordite, Overland...
In 2018, Mari read at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival and at the Irish Writers Centre International Women’s Day 2018-2019....
Gareth lives in Sydney with his wife and daughter. He has taught poetry and poetics in schools, youth centres, universities, libraries and...
Caitlin Bowen is currently in her third year at Swinburne University, studying both a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Arts....
Guest reflection • Issue seven • Issue Seven Contributor
by Tom Meagher. A yearning for freedom from both physical and ineffable barriers re-emerges throughout this issue of Backstory. Visible and...
Moya Roddy’s novel The Long Way Home was described in the Irish Times as “simply brilliant”. Her collection of short stories Other...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Contributor • Issue seven interviews
Interviewed by Samuel Elliott. Richard James Allen is an Australian born poet whose writinghas appeared widely in journals, anthologies,...
Poorly navigating the internet one LiveLeak video at a time, Laura Wild is an Australian writer currently studying at Swinburne University...
Mark Mulholland was born and raised in Ireland, and when fifteen underwent a stroke of genius and left schooling to linger around a...
by Samuel Elliott About the author… Nigel Featherstone is an Australian writer who has been published widely. His works include...
Michele Seminara is a poet, editor and yoga teacher. After studying English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, she...
Karen Lethlean is a retired English teacher. With fiction which has appeared in the Barbaric Yawp, Ken*Again, Pendulum Papers and has won a...
I dropped out of my first degree. After 12 years, which included a marriage and kids, I went back to study and became in time, a radio...
Sven was born and raised in Hobart with three younger brothers. His childhood mostly included playing sports and travelling overseas during...
Interviewed by Samuel Elliott. About The Author: Jan Golembiewski grew up in suburban Canberra and in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. He...
By Issabelle Breen. Author Bio G.S. Johnston is the author of three historical novels, Sweet Bitter Cane (2019), The Cast of a...
Interviewer: Paul Brookes When and why did you begin to write poetry? I wrote my first poem in my early teens in response to an...
Interviewed by Samuel Elliott. About the poet: Magi Gibson has held three Scottish Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships and one Royal...
Anne Connor is a Melbourne writer of fiction and non-fiction. For over two decades she has worked in the writing space, with articles...
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro is the author of Miriam the Medium (Simon & Schuster, 2004). Her essays, poetry, short stories have been...
Issue Seven Contributor
May 24, 2019
Thomas van Essen is a philosophy and literature undergrad at the Swinburne University of Technology. An avid reader of speculative fiction...
June 21, 2018
Obsessed by Anne Boleyn and Tudor History since childhood, Wendy J. Dunn is the author of two Anne Boleyn novels: Dear Heart, How Like You...
May 14, 2018
Angela Wauchop is currently studying Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. Originally from regional Queensland, Angela...
