We were sitting with calculable comfort at about 3,000 feet, our feeble human engineering warping from the relaxed atmosphere of our immediate surrounds, the cabin lights dimmed in a …
AN ENDLESS WELLSPRING: an interview with Pierz Newton-John
Pierz Newton-John is a Melbourne-based fiction writer, currently focusing on short stories, but with a novel in the pipeline. Among other places, his work has appeared in the Sleepers Almanac, …
Otherworld (Rjurik Davidson)
Come with me and I’ll tell you something. I once wandered here, on this very street, alone with eyes like black saucers, with lips bloated, my hair wild and windswept. …
A First Draft (Ryan O'Neill)
Beginning- thief/work/wife [“She was always heavily made up, like the body in a casket that had been in some terrible accident.” She is aware of thefts. Main character- “All …
TEARING THROUGH THE ENVELOPE: an interview with Ryan O’Neill
Ryan O’Neill has won the Hal Porter and Roland Robinson awards and got third in the most recent Age Short Story Competition. His stories have appeared in Sleepers, Best Australian …
Subtext (Maxine Beneba Clarke)
when we say i don’t want to become my mother that isn’t an invitation to laugh thinking about your mother in law & maybe the way she talks too …
No Shelter (Andy Jackson)
Floating home from a poetry reading, fog and who I am closing in as I walk forward, I am still visible. A mostly full stubbie of beer, VB I suspect, …
AMONG THE POETS: an interview with Andy Jackson
Andy Jackson has been a consistent feature of Australian literature for well over a decade now. We might as well call him what he is: a landmark of Aussie performance …
Shopping for Girls (Tiggy Johnson)
It’s too late to get my daughter newborn stilettos a baby makeover cotton crop bras in size 0 or a romper to claim her daddy just wanted a blowjob. Perhaps …