Past Contributors
December 6, 2017
On November 2011, Michael D. Higgins was inaugurated as the ninth President of Ireland. A passionate political voice, a poet and writer,...
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August 9, 2017
A Queenslander (born 1946) he was educated in Toowoomba. For some years he worked as a printer in various locations in Queensland, New...
June 29, 2017
Sophie Myers is a Masters of Writing student at Swinburne based in Brisbane. Her dream is to own a library large enough to justify a...
Issue Thirteen Contributors • Past Contributors
June 16, 2017
Bill Cotter is a retired teacher who has been writing poetry and prose for almost forty years. His work has appeared in magazines and...
June 15, 2017
Judy Rigby completed the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at the CAE in 2014 and is working on a number of fiction pieces...
Amanda (Pand) Pearson should complete her Masters of Arts in Writing at Swinburne in 2017. She holds a Diploma of Professional Writing and...
Louise is an Australian writer, poet and songwriter. Louise suffers from itchy feet and has lived and worked in Thailand, Japan and a...
Chris has a passion for writing 19th century Australian history. A BA in Psychology and MA in Biography & Life Writing have influenced...
Janice Simpson is a part-time PhD candidate at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication, who has completed her Confirmation...
Issue Nine Contributors • Past Contributors
January 13, 2017
Samuel Elliott is a Sydney-based freelance literary and entertainment reporter. Having previously regularly appeared in premier digital...
November 7, 2016
Dr. Josie Arnold is Professor of Writing. She developed the MA(Writing) online course and the PhD by Artefact & Exegesis for creative...
September 5, 2016
Dr Jacqueline Ross is a widely published author of fiction and non-fiction. She has written for both children and adults. Jacqueline is...
Clare Millar studies creative writing / literature and professional writing / editing at Swinburne University. She’s part of the...
Margaret Marchant lives in Adelaide, South Australia and is currently studying for Masters of Arts (Writing) at Swinburne University. When...
John Frederick Whitehall suffers from chronic wanderlust. Treatment for this syndrome has taken him to over fifty countries but, as yet, a...
Tamasine Loves is a 23-year-old emerging writer from the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne’s outer-east. Born into a book-loving family,...
Kate has a back ground in journalism and in the health sector. She has written for a health magazine for 5 years before doing her...
September 3, 2016
Arianne James is a writer of fiction and a lover of words, books, people, long conversations, eavesdropping, music, stars, cats and many...
August 25, 2016
Vashti Farrer has worked as a copywriter, research librarian, encyclopaedia researcher, creative writing tutor, short story judge,...
Issue One • Past Contributors
May 22, 2016
Backstory’s Issue Two will feature an interview with award winning author, Alex Miller. Alex Miller’s eleventh novel, Coal...
May 21, 2016
After a multi-faceted career in finance and economics, Melbourne-based author Louise Wilson has returned to her teenage passion for...
Christina Aitken was born in Tasmania, but has lived mostly in Victoria. She is a social worker, mother of two, and emerging writer and...
Duncan Richardson is a writer of fiction, poetry, history and educational texts. He is keen to uncover the hidden stories of Brisbane’s...
MA Fox is an expat American editor and author living in Adelaide, South Australia. With a few short story publications under her belt, she...
Helen F Miller’s philosophy is that story plants seeds that suggest another way of looking at life and is, therefore, instrumental in...
Kirsty Seebeck is a Masters student at Swinburne whose first published work is this one right here. Be kind – and if you can’t be, just...
Rachael Palmer is a student in Swinburne University of Technology’s writing program. She enjoys wine and novel pairing, writing and other...
Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She has sold many stories and articles,...
May 19, 2016
Teuila Krause is a Sub-editor of Backstory journal and third year Professional Writing and Editing student at Swinburne. With a love of...
May 15, 2016
Oscar O’Neill-Pugh is a Sub-editor of Backstory journal. He has been writing stories and poetry for as long as he remembers....
