One of the great things about online journals is being able to keep in touch with the literary world’s movers and shakers, the people who work their arses off to …
UNEXPECTED GIFTS: an interview with Irma Gold
The last time Verity La chatted to Irma Gold, in July this year, her collection Two Steps Forward was almost but not quite published. Back then, she said, ‘Writing is …
The Leading Role of Simple Things: Irma Gold's Two Steps Forward
Review by Tristan Foster Australia is a big country but a small place, so when Nam Le’s 2008 short story collection The Boat won nearly every major literary prize in …
The leading role of simple things (Tristan Foster)
Australia is a big country but a small place, so when Nam Le’s 2008 short story collection The Boat won nearly every major literary prize in the land people were …
The Game (Irma Gold)
Abby is tall and lanky, taller than all the boys and skinny as all hell. Every afternoon she pegs it down to the wreckers to play with her brother Dan …
TWO STEPS FORWARD: an interview with Irma Gold
The world of literature is filled with personalities. Yes, that’s an inane sentence, but let me explain. The world of literature – perhaps the arts in general – is jam-packed …