Issue seven • Issue Seven Fiction
June 16, 2019
By Mark Mulholland. So it’s to the station bar in Dublin for a quick scoop between trains when who is it but Audrey Hepburn that...
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Issue seven • Issue Seven Poetry
By Chad Norman Freedom surrounds my life at the moment bees doing their thing in white clovers, laughter at a nearby picnic-table is...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Reviews
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “This was not the exultation of war. This was gratitude. This was sadness for the waste of life. … This...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Contributor • Issue seven interviews
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...
Issue Seven Poetry
By Bernadette O’Reilly He attempted to strangle her in the Bedroom of our house. Frightened mouse Drew back the curtains Light...
By Bernadette O’Reilly Pink tea set Bought for me By Uncle Jim The blue by Mum. Pretend play Fear The howl of the wind His key...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Essays
by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro. The sun beat down on my parents’ black Olds as they drove south to their honeymoon in Florida. It was...
By Kenneth Pobo In junior high I had a crush, on Mr. Lotee, my history teacher. How I stared as he stood by the board and said how...
Issue Seven Poetry • Uncategorised
By Stuart Barnes i.m. Nancy Barnes This poem was previously published in Glasshouses (UQP 2016)...
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...
Review by Wendy J. Dunn ACTUALLY, LOVE is the only thing that does last, beyond the karmic astral space junk drifting like detritus...
Issue seven • Issue Seven Reviews • Uncategorised
Review by Brittney Alexander “… the slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. Women’s position is changing. What...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “You thought everything was laid up and settled, long ago, and there it would be, suddenly reaching out...
Interviews • Issue seven • Issue seven interviews
By Nik Eugeniou. Ali Whitelock is a Scottish poet and writer living in Australia. Her first book, ‘Poking seaweed with a stick and...
Interviewed by Samuel Elliott. About the poet: Magi Gibson has held three Scottish Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships and one Royal...
by Laura Wild After lunch, the kids want sharks. Barry squints behind his shades as sunlight gives way to the deep shadows of...
by Karen Lethlean During my teenage years, summertime meant heat and boredom. As if an offering to Sun Gods, I laid out on a blanket...
Issue Seven Contributor • Past Contributors
Anne Connor is a Melbourne writer of fiction and non-fiction. For over two decades she has worked in the writing space, with articles...
By Jenny Blackford Cold left-over lamb sat on a flawed floral serving plate in the icebox. Just a thin crack nothing that...
By Bernadette O’Reilly In the hallway He places a hand On my bottom Before going into mass I turn furiously Tongue explodes I...
By Vashti Farrer Let’s not prejudge him, scorn, deride, decide, dispense with. Hard not to. Hosts of Dickens’ grizzled...
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro is the author of Miriam the Medium (Simon & Schuster, 2004). Her essays, poetry, short stories have been...
By Thomas Van Essen. Hachette, Non-Fiction, 292 pages “People don’t join cults because they’re stupid or bad people. They...
By Mari Maxwell ...
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...
Fiction • Issue Six Fiction • Issues
December 15, 2018
Good historical fiction draws the reader into a world from the past, bringing to life events, characters and lessons that often ring true...
Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Poetry
“The road is full of perfume. Urine. Bile. Death.” These nine initial words from Jayant Kashyap’s poem ‘History’ in this issue...
Issue Six • Issue Six Poetry • Issues • Poetry
By Jayant Kashyap * The road is full of perfume. Urine. Bile. Death. People walk the road, up and down, in high boots, heads...
by Kevin Higgins You knew for a fact, they’d never allow a pair of mad eyes with a pistol near the Emperor and his wife; and...
