VAULT

LIES TO LIVE BY/short fiction:

• Paul Adkin A dog’s name
• Paul Adkin Resolution 666
• Paul Adkin The cold submission
• Miles Allinson Leaving leisureland
• Cassandra Atherton Homesick
• Elizabeth Bryer The waiting
• Elizabeth Bryer Calculations
• Robyn Cadwallader Rare and endangered
• Ben Carmichael The Antique
• John Clanchy The old, old story
• David Cohen Photocopier
• David Cohen White goods
• Craig Cormick The last islands in the world
• Christopher Currie The unloved
• Eric Dando A very big bean
• Rjurik Davidson Otherworld
• Rjurik Davidson The interminable suffering of mysterious Mr Wu
• Jacqui Dent How my father got his robotic hand
• Daniel East Scenes from Orbital brides: the lady’s request
• Duncan Felton Clue Five
• David Finnigan 18 play ideas from 2002
• David Finnigan Dear Dolly
• Finnigan and Brother Potential band names
• Irma Gold The game
• Andy Jackson Candles
• Pseudonymous Jones Song
• Pseudonymous Jones Rilke was a jerk
• Pseudonymous Jones Brother
• Leah Kaminsky Heart attack
• Wayne Macauley Reply to a letter
• Sharanya Manivannan Self-portrait without mythology
• Kirk Marshall Bear vs plane!
• Kirk Marshall Watch every drop: a community service announcement composed for those who survived the Fall
• Luke May Drunkest man in the room
• Simonne Michelle-Wells Blood
• Ruby J Murray Maps to Jakarta
• Pierz Newton-John The kite
• Ryan O’Neill A first draft
• Ryan O’Neill The Chinese lesson
• Louise Pine Each morning
• Caroline Reid Highway one
• Josephine Rowe Before the power went out
• Autumn Royal Enlightened
• JL Shenstone The exit
• JL Shenstone What it’s like to want to write when all they want is for you to sing
• Warwick Sprawson War on cheese
• Johanna Stapleton Lane 441, Section 6
• Shane Strange Eight rules for making fire
• Vicki Thornton A matter of balance
• Julie Thorndyke Movement
• Lara S. Williams The pre-dentist not wearing red
• Lara S. Williams You were lost within my sights
• Bel Woods My sheets were freshly cleaned and smelled of lilac

 NOVEL EXTRACTS:

• Cassandra Atherton Cherry bomb
• Maxine Beneba Clarke Black Lazarus
• Leslie Cannold The book of Rachael
• Eric Dando Three dead fish
• Andrea Goldsmith A moment of falling
• Alan Gould The mudda
• Anthony Macris Departure gate
• Francesca Rendle-Short One day in English

BEING SURE/creative non-fiction:

• David Cohen The anatomy of the blurb
• David Cohen Adventures in the book – and shirt – trade
• Ray Greener A theory of Australian literature
• Glenda Guest Chapter One: early fragments
• Tiggy Johnson The poet said fuck on stage
• Helena Pastor What’s updog?
• Francesca Rendle-Short My father’s body in nine drawings
• John Smith Eulogy for a fisherman’s village
• Denise Young Down the main trunk line

OUT OF LIMBO/GLBTI creative non-fiction:

• Stuart Barnes Mother and son
• Callie Doyle-Scott Blurred impressions
• Kyle Leong Ogres and like onions
• Amanda Marx One perfect day

HEIGHTENED TALK/poetry:

• Ivy Alvarez Garage (hat)
• Ivy Alvarez Dark bathroom
• Karen Andrews At the park
• Susan Austin Drink driving
• Susan Austin Solution
• Jeremy Balius Gather, darkness
• Stuart Barnes Lipograms: five nursery rhymes reworked
• Richard Bell Gravely critique
• S. Van Berkel The cold drip of dawn
• Kevin Brophy Flicker
• Gabrielle Bryden What will it take?
• Susie Campbell Hours & days
• Ashley Capes Stamped flat stamped
• Shane Jesse Christmass A hundred set apart in a herd
• Shane Jesse Christmass Shank’s mare
• Shane Jesse Christmass Politics of meat
• Maxine Beneba Clarke Subtext
• PS Cottier All the blond Jesuses
• Nathan Curnow Blessing
• Nathan Curnow I shoot you at the pond
• Demet Divaroren Unroadworthy love
• Brad Frederiksen Onya Mum
• Andrew Galan  Bag bog cat, the caterpillar an’ the glue man
• Andrew Galan Duck Part 2
• Andrew Galan The mother poem
• Andrew Galan Upstairs food court
• Andrew Galan Where is the werewolf?
• Paul Hetherington Brothers
• Paul Hetherington Parrots
• Paul Hetherington Tissue
• Paul Hetherington Holding
• Andy Jackson No shelter
• Mark William Jackson Evolution of a kind
• Mark William Jackson Heroisch
• Mark William Jackson Hell’s band
• Tiggy Johnson Shopping for girls
• Nathaniel Lindsay Astronaut haiku
• Lesley Lebkowicz A charm to keep him safe
• Lesley Lebkowicz Booze
• Lesley Lebkowicz Canberra
• Lesley Lebkowicz Done
• Lesley Lebkowicz Snake
• Emily Manger Rage with exactitude
• Sonja Meyer Transition
• Tara Mokhtari Someone else
• Tara Mokhtari Darkest blue
• Derek Motion Invasion
• Alison Murray Something took form
• Agnieszka Niemira An untitled
• Agnieszka Niemira untitled
• A. S. Patric What we’ve done
• JL Shenstone Nights of wine
• Alicia Sometimes The cosmos revisited
• Gemma White Crimson encounter
• Gemma White Friendship

LIGHTHOUSE YARNS:

• Kevin Brophy and Nathan Curnow Always knowing when to turn the page
• John Clanchy Outside the lines
• Craig Cormick A fulfilling burden
• PS Cottier Looking up elephants’ testicles
• Andrew Croome The sentence maker
• Mary Delahunty Jumping through and managing the tangle
• Irma Gold Two steps forward
• Irma Gold Unexpected gifts
• Irma Gold Working an invisible thread
• Andrea Goldsmith The well-exercised imagination 
• Alan Gould The deepest enchantment
• Glenda Guest Australia’s new hero of magic realism
• Jonny Lewis The restorative photographer
• Anthony Macris Mounting the fight
• Omar Musa Hope and risk
• Richard Neville The bumpy ride of exposing shit-heads
• Marcella Polain Life’s blood
• Phil RetroSpector Somewhere between nostalgia and sadness
• Francesca Rendle-Short The buoyancy of courage
• Francesca Rendle-Short Writing in the gap between
• Sean M Whelan Be Fonzie
• Denise Young The long ride

THE INDUSTRIALS:

• The Southern Highland Writers’ Festival’s Michaela Bolzan Behind the festival lines

MELBOURNE REVIEW INTERVIEWS 2010-2012
(by – or facilitated by – Alec Patric)

• Ivy Alvarez Negotiating death
• Jessica Au Breaking the stasis
• Sunil Badami From the emergency
• Jeremy Balius Associations
• Leslie Cannold Hidden books
• Ashley CapesStepping over seasons
• Kathy Charles Death hag
• Maxine Beneba Clarke Raising the dead
• Nathan Curnow The haze and burn
• Christopher Currie The furious progress of
• Zoe Dattner SPUNC
• Rjurik Davidson Breaking
• SJ Finn Passing through truth
• David Francis Tracking the stray dogs
• Alice Gage Ampersand and
• Jolie Holland Music for Icarus
• Toni Jordan Finding stories
• Andy Jackson Among the poets
• Mark William Jackson War by candlelight
• Tiggy Johnson A first taste
• Krissy Kneen Ecstatic gifts
• Wayne Macauley Explaining bees
• Wayne Macauley The possibilities of
• Kuzhali Manickavel Disturbing things
• Kuzhali Manickavel Disturbing dialogues
• Lily Mae Martin Drawing breath
• Angela Meyer The ache in connection
• Tara Moktari Whiskey poetry
• Derek Motion Solutions
• Ruby J Murray Temple of literature
• Pierz Newton-John An endless wellspring
• Graham Nunn That extra kick
• Ryan O’Neill Enrichment and absorption
• Ryan O’Neill Tearing through the envelope
• Paddy O’Reilly Snapshots of truth
• Tim Richards The destructive appeal
• Josephine Rowe The transitions of
• Ronnie Scott Brow by brow
• Jeff Sparrow Defending key principles
• Rob Spillman The reach and engagement
• Rebecca Starford All things fresh and different
• Laurie Steed The independent spirit
• Emmett Stinson The art of rupture
• Louise Swinn Some of the things they teach me
• Maria Takolander The painfull and the threatening
• Patrick West From deepest death to fullest life
• Chris Womersley On the high road
• Les Zigomanis A reinterpretation of self

VERITY LA REVIEWS:

• Lucy Alexander An incredible sense of trust: Nathan Curnow and Kevin Brophy’s Radar
• Lucy Alexander Deftly anchored in experience: Susan Austin’s Undertow
• Lucy Alexander Poems coming in fast: Jill Jones’ Ash is Here, So are Stars
• Robyn Cadwallader Refusing comfortable resolutions: Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference
• Robyn Cadwallader The remembered, the haunted, and the differing: Patricia Sykes’ The Abbotsford Mysteries
• Robyn Cadwallader The playful provocation of a complex tapestry: Susan Hawthorn’s Cow
• Ben Carmichael A worthy mirror of reality: Tim Richards’ Thought Crimes
• Ben Carmchael The white silence after the full-stop: Jeans-Christophe Valtat’s 03
• Tristan Foster A story somewhere in the distance: Anthony J. Longford’s Bottomless River
• Tristan Foster Just a little bit brilliant: Anthony Macris’ Great Western Highway – a love story
• Tristan Foster Smart and taut exploration of modern warfare: Andrew Croome’s Midnight Empire
• Tristan Foster The leading role of simple things: Irma Gold’s Two Steps Forwards
• Tristan Foster Untruths sculptued into truths: Merlinda Bobis’ Fish-hair Woman
• Robert Goodman An element of wish fulfilment: Chris Flynn’s A Tiger in Eden
• Robert Goodman Exercises in the experimental: Ryan O’Neill’s The Weight of a Human Heart
• Robert Goodman Getting caught in the fundamentalist machine: Timothy Mo’s Pure
• Robert Goodman Good guys and guns: Neal Stephenson’s Reamde
• Robert Goodman Myths singing off the page: A.S. Byatt’s Ragnarok
• Robert Goodman Navigating the mean streets of post-war Melbourne: Geoffrey McGeachin’s Blackwattle Creek and Peter Twhoig’s The Cartographer
• Robert Goodman Preaching to the converted: Garry Disher’s Play Abandoned
• Robert Goodman The breathtaking and the bewildering: Patrick West’s The World Swimmers
• Mark William Jackson Infused in words: Emilie Collyer’s Your Looking Eyes
• Mark William Jackson Hatton’s hunger: Stu Hatton’s How To Be Hungry
• Mark William Jackson Peaks from start to finish: Blemish Books’ Triptych Poets Issue Three
• Mark William Jackson Thoroughly modern poets in triptych: Blemish Books’ Triptych Poets Issue Two
• Lesley Lebkowicz Hard notes of war: Susan Hawthorne’s Valence
• Geoff Page The circumstances of a book: Ed Byrne’s Poems from the City
• Bel Woods Everything is at is should be: Jessica Au’s Cargo

VERITY LA-AMPOONERY:

• Jim Anderson Chandon irresponsibility
• Jim Anderson Frida Kahlo’s night out – she’s her to help
• Jim Anderson Geronimo
• Jim Anderson Postal Pride

ARRESTS OF ATTENTION/visual art:

• Miles Allinson Light heart girl
• Daniel Armstrong Abandoned cubby huts: dreaming and decay
• Maxine Beneba Clarke It’s a call to prayer and a call for blood
• Robert Knapman Johnny and Dave
• Ruby J Murray Funfair
• Ruby J Murray Toy guns
• Liesl Pfeffer Things half seen
• Chloe Rose Fitzroy Sky/Wonderland
• Chloe Rose unseen
• Lee Sandwith Photosynthesis
• Lee Sandwith The decline
• Michael Talbot Urban apparitions
• Ernest Williamson III Love and its needs