Review by Bel Woods If Puberty Blues was one extreme of teenage beach culture, Cargo is another. It’s the loners; the kids who mature quietly at the fringes, drift, dip their toes into the …
Holding (Paul Hetherington)
He held her body lightly, shirted as it was, falling backwards as it was, away from him. He read in her arched back the prow-lines of figureheads on ships …
ABORIGINES, SHARKS AND AUSTRALIAN ACCENTS On Australian Writing (Jo Case)
At last year’s Adelaide Writers Festival, during a session on The Macquarie Anthology of Australian Literature, an impassioned argument broke out on the subject of Australian writing. Robert Dessaix declared …
ABORIGINES, SHARKS AND AUSTRALIAN ACCENTS: On Australian Writing (Jo Case)
At last year’s Adelaide Writers Festival, during a session on The Macquarie Anthology of Australian Literature, an impassioned argument broke out on the subject of Australian writing. Robert Dessaix declared …
Revealing Brilliance: an interview with Jo Case
Alec Patric: If we love a film we want to know more about it. We stay for the credits if we’re struck by the way it was shot, the locations …
REVEALING BRILLIANCE: an interview with Jo Case
ALEC PATRIC If we love a film we want to know more about it. We stay for the credits if we’re struck by the way it was shot, the locations …
The Mother Poem (Andrew Galan)
[In preparation you will need a photocopy or printout of this poem, a book or pieces of cardboard big enough to hold this poem, glue, and a wooden spoon. Paste …
What’s Updog? (Helena Pastor)
One night, washing up after dinner, I hear the click of the side-gate. A dark-haired figure lopes past the window and my husband calls out, ‘Joey’s here.’ My body …
The Best Ever (Louise Swinn)
My dog Soda had just been coughing up a furball when he put his weight on one side and rested his head on the paw that was up on its …
SOME OF THE THINGS THEY TEACH ME: an interview with Louise Swinn
BEL WOODS I have a fondness for the stories that sneak up on you long after you and the story have parted, that seize you when you least expect it. …