Queensland Poetry Festival’s Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its fourth year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers, Philip Bacon. All the paintings used in the competition …
The Butcher in the Moonlight (Indigo Perry)
(Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) The Butcher in the Moonlight It’s that time, long after midnight, long before morning, when it’s hard to wake the ones who sleep. Her little sister …
Painting (Joe Dolce)
She has spread canvas across the long side of the shed, and sits on a low stool, washing blue over white weave. She likes plein air, the humid day cut …
WILDLY HYBRID: an interview with Meera Atkinson
Meera Atkinson writes across genres — creative nonfiction, memoir, fiction, hybrid, poetry, essays, scholarly, songs — and over the last ten years her work has been particularly focussed on the subject of …
The View From Heaven (Damen O’Brien)
Tickling out of a golden universe, the native bees swarm: spots of ash in a warm wind, migraine patterns dancing. Each tiny tick and tock and black note small as …
Simone Says (Emily Barber)
I wake naked in an empty bed. ‘Reuben?’ I call, but there’s no response. Anxious all of a sudden, I pull on knickers and a camisole and pad down the …
Under the Radar (Peter Papathanasiou)
Although I grew up in Australia, I was born in a rural part of Greece, in the region of Macedonia. The northern regions of Macedonia, Thessaly and Thrace were hit …
Little Key (Judy Johnson)
It could be almost anywhere in the Middle East. The result of war or famine or …
Shanghai Street Photography (Brenton Rossow)
Brenton Rossow is a filmmaker, poet, and musician, who has returned to Perth, Western Australia after 14 years in South East Asia. He recently produced a feature length documentary called Shanghainese …
My Father’s Shopping List (Mark O’Flynn)
The trouble with having a doctor for a father is that you are brought up calling a spade a spade. Or more accurately a spatula a spatula, a scalpel a …