I know things about this man. I first met him seventeen years ago when he removed a BCC from the right side of my forehead. That time I had staples …
Winter (K W George)
A man in a black suit on a white windswept beach. Wind snatching an umbrella, turning it into a batwing. Hands so cold and trembling fingers don’t work. Tingly feeling …
George’s town pt. 2
Artist’s Statement ‘George’s town pt. 2’ explores distance, diaspora, and the hidden truths of familial betrayal and the taste of disappointment. Footage from a trip to Hong Kong in 2014 …
WOMEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY TOGETHER CHANGING THE WORLD: an interview with Sam George-Allen
Interviewer: Tamara Lazaroff Sam George-Allen is the former co-founding editor of online literary magazine Scum. Her work has been published in The Lifted Brow, Stilts, and The Suburban Review, among …
Griftivism (Michele Seminara)
My first exposure to what I now call “griftivism,” a hybrid of grifting and Critical Social Justice activism, occurred in the arts. It was 2020 when—in my role as managing …
The False Dissension Over ‘Islamophobia’: an Iranian outlook (Ali Beikzadeh)
‘Cultural relativism commands us to see what we call our values as simple prejudices; the beliefs of a particular tribe called the West. The religion of the prophet is thus …
BORDERLESS (Judith Nangala Crispin, Anne Casey, Zeina Issa)
Murder at Wave Hill Judith Nangala Crispin i. Yes, he is beautiful, the boy dancing with men, purlapa, snake story — his skin gleams oil and iron-red ochre, she watches …
We All Have Our Stories to Tell: DIVING INTO GLASS by Caro Llewellyn reviewed by Samantha Connor
Review by Samantha Connor Edited by Robyn Cadwallader George Orwell once famously said, ‘Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful’. It’s why I read Diving into …
Old and New Frontiers: Gay Lynch’s Unsettled
Review by Carmel Bendon Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Readers expect historical fiction novels not only to evoke authentically a particular time and place but also to be accessible and relatable …
Michele Seminara Launches Sara Dowse’s WEST BLOCK
Buy West Block online from For Pity Sake Publishing An Except From West Block FROM CASSIE ARMSTRONG’S DIARY 9 December 1977 I took one last look at night. It was …