Fiction • Issue Two
September 5, 2016
By Vashti Farrer LETTER from: Earl Bathurst to Governor Darling. Downing Street, 17th August, 1825. Sir,...
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Issue Two • Poetry
By Eloise Faichney Flaubert recognised my love, tender and whole, and it made him sad. ‘I forsee that I shall make you...
By Wendy Dunn Can poetry die When words mark meaning On a page? No Not simply mark But explode Into architecture Imaginary gardens...
By Vashti Farrer On the corner stood a house. Unloved, its weathered weatherboard. But now a wire fence surrounds the lot. No planks...
By Clare Millar 416,809 enlisted 156,000 wounded, gassed, taken prisoner 62,000 killed Preheat a war. Line countries with armies....
By Margaret Marchant Once tall proud men Remembering those who went before them Marching for those who cannot and those left behind...
Interviews • Issue Two
By Jac Mason and Ana-Teona Tinc The walls were lined with books, stacked up higher than any of us could reach. Alex stood and turned his...
By James Palmer Before screens colonised the world, performances were exclusive to live production. Yet the advent of film and television...
By Tamasine Loves Historical fiction is a genre with roots as deep as the storytelling tradition itself. And to the modern day, we...
Issue Two • Reviews
Reviewed by Professor Josie Arnold I read this as a biography of the William, Anne and Hanoverian years in England that saw the...
Review by Tina Tsironis Throw a number of interconnected characters together, add a dash of mental complexity to each, sprinkle with a...
Review by Abby Claridge ‘That was well done, my lady,’ Aksel said softly in his newly deep voice. ‘Dignified,’ she told him,...
Review by Sarah Giles ‘To this day I have no tears; that is one of the symptoms of being a Holocaust survivor…’ p. 147. ‘The...
Issue Nine Contributors • Past Contributors
August 25, 2016
Vashti Farrer has worked as a copywriter, research librarian, encyclopaedia researcher, creative writing tutor, short story judge,...
Issue One
May 24, 2016
This journal provides Swinburne writers with a global publication outlet that brings their talents to the world. These stories, review,...
Fiction • Issue One
May 23, 2016
By Rachael Palmer Cyprus 1958 March Tilly stepped off the plane into bright sunshine at Nicosia Airport. She bumped baby Beth higher on her...
Fiction • Issue One • Issues
By Eugen Bacon Maji! Maji! Myth or legend Or a scheme of fads, ideas embedded One battle, one struggle. Freedom! Freedom! Painted...
By Kirsty Seebeck The boy rested against a sun-warmed rock, watching the sheep browse through the scrubby grass, as early summer insects...
By Helen F Miller The year is 1902 and Australian women now have the right to vote and be elected, but that has little if any impact...
Issue One • Issues • Poetry
By MA Fox White columns reach towards the heavens under the moon’s rays. The gods are now home sitting in judgement...
By MA Fox Spring looms. Flora, Rome’s goddess, flowers as her crown, heralds the cycle of rebirth. Image by Roksolana...
Issue One • Poetry
By Wendy J Dunn My lover brought me a poesy yesterday morn alone in the meadow alive with spring Ragged robin, vetch, golden...
By MA Fox Hail to thee, Diana, Goddess over all that is steeped in darkness, Sacred keeper of the moon. By the silver light...
By Wendy J Dunn A child bleeds. Head broken Wound open Torso pocked by gunfire. He cries Terrified “Where’s my father?...
By Duncan Richardson The officer in charge of the firing squad knows he was the one who killed the Ceausescu’s because his...
By Duncan Richardson When the great Khan died legend tells they buried him on the plain and gathered a swarm of horses ...
By Duncan Richardson England – February 1963 The worst winter in memory pipes and birds were freezing heaters gave up...
By Duncan Richardson Suleyman the Magnificent* twice bereaved found solace in poetry for a while then war dying in the field on his...
By Duncan Richardson Eager pilgrims seek out the Great Philosopher 1898 Let us go and see Herr Nietzsche sitting by the...
May 22, 2016
By Eloise Faichney i. Witch Am I to spend my days locked in the longing of my namesake? I am a ghost of knife and...
