Sarita Bennett Archives

Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2019

Verity La November 22, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, Poetry

Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize (supported by Southern Cross University) is for poems of up to fifty lines that respond to the theme ‘seeking asylum’. The prize celebrates the …

THE BUILDING BLOCK BOY (Joe Davies)October 23, 2018
The room was large, high-ceilinged and poorly lit. There was a lamp on the desk and another beside the mattress in the corner, both were on, but the light they ... Read More
The Motel No Vacancy (Fiona Hardy)November 14, 2018
I moved across from the hotel when I was seven years old and my mother gave me to her parents, like a late Christmas present, just before the New Year. ... Read More
My Mother (Taylor Croteau)March 19, 2019
I am the same age my mother was when she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I am the same age my mother was the first time she tried to kill me. ... Read More