A LITERARY JOURNAL FOR DIVERSE VOICES: Issue Thirteen.

  • Issue Thirteen Interviews

    Lauren Chater Laurie Steed Alison Goodman G.S. Johnston  

  • Issue Thirteen Fiction

    In the Eye of Jupiter Religion ‘Sense and insensibility’ Black As Rise and Fall – A Cheerleader’s Triumph and Tragedy Free Range Eggs The Flynn Effect The School Boy Alice Fade to Blacking Out Stubborn as Mud SpaceTruck 1999 Mothman Wilt Tree Dwellers Darwin, with Archie Empty       Heavenly Morsel  

  • Movie and Television reviews.

    Past lives   For the Girlies Collection

  • Issue Thirteen Poetry

    Orbs & the Mountain Every Single Day Balms Garry Gets a Gun Boathouse Facing North Well Rounded Always, a River Day Ebbs Leigh Sales is “Totally Fine” The Sea Then and Now Tandem venit amor, and others. At Old Epidaurus Rabbits Running Complication We are all Wildflowers Pressed Between Transparencies

  • Issue Thirteen Book Reviews.

    The Glass House: Novel Review Love From Scratch: Novel Review Thanks For Having Me: Novel Review A Dance With Murder: Novel Review Tidelines: Novel Review Someone Else’s Bucket List: Novel Review Kit McBride Gets A Wife: Novel Review The Next Big Thing: Novel Review The Deed: Novel Review Sanctuary: Novel Review Non-Fiction Reviews Good With…

  • Women embrace empowerment with their strengths.

    Women embrace empowerment with their strengths.

    Lauren Chaters speaks about exploring the prosperity of women in history and the current day through portraits that remain with us.

  • As time passes love is unknowingly translucent.

    As time passes love is unknowingly translucent.

    G.S. Johnston discusses how he crafts insightful love stories set in the past and amongst the harsh political climates of the time.

  • Bringing a touch of serenity to those in need.

    Bringing a touch of serenity to those in need.

    Alison Goodman takes us on a journey with two women who lend a helping hand in creative ways, highlighting the light and darkness in people’s stories.

  • Vulnerability is shown in a multitude of ways.

    Vulnerability is shown in a multitude of ways.

    Laurie Steed talks about how he finds the light in dark situations by drawing on internal worlds and the people who surround us.

  • Tidelines: Novel Review

    Tidelines: Novel Review

    Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Sarah Sasson Publisher: Affirm Press RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 30 January 2024 “In the time that followed, bits of ourselves kept breaking off, crumbling like limestone into ocean, apostles falling: every year we became a little less of whoever we were in those moments.” Do we really know the people…

  • At Old Epidaurus, and others.

    At Old Epidaurus, and others.

    by Jena Woodhouse.   Perhaps you remember that brilliant morning at Old Epidaurus, nine summers ago: the cobalt Aegean, the shock of its waters on flesh warmed by passion, after the show.   The cold marble tiers of the previous evening: moonlight captured and frozen in moulds; the silver horse hitched to a mulberry tree…

  • Fade to Blacking Out

    Fade to Blacking Out

    By Alex Eagles It’s party central, and you’re standing on the balcony rail at a house you don’t know the owner of. Chants erupt from below as the people — your people — await your next move. Slamming the last of a can and dropping it into the crowd below, you stare ahead at your…

  • Free Range Eggs

    Free Range Eggs

    By Vanity Conroy   After My son hated dirt. When he was a child, he would complain that the feeling of it on his skin would make his gums ache. He couldn’t stand it until we got chickens at home. He stood in the yard holding handfuls of dirt until he couldn’t anymore. Eventually, his…

  • For the Girlies Collection

    For the Girlies Collection

    By Jilliean Sioson Last March, the whole world gathered together women and all that they do, but I’m sure we can appreciate and celebrate all the different women in our lives for more than just a day or two. So grab your gal pals, your nearest and dearest, a cup of tea or hot chocolate…

  • The Deed: Novel Review

    The Deed: Novel Review

    Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Susannah Begbie Publisher: Hachette RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 1 May 2024 “Three steps in she found the crumpled body of her dead father.” What causes more chaos than a will and the remaining family? In Susannah Begbie’s stunning debut novel, The Deed, she exposes the messy side of family and…

  • The House That Joy Built: Non-Fiction Review

    The House That Joy Built: Non-Fiction Review

    Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Holly Ringland Publisher: HarperCollins RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 4 October 2023 “Sitting at my desk and writing, I feel two forces again: joy and fear.” Never has there been a book, fiction or non-fiction, that so aptly captured my current state that the moment I finished reading the last page,…

  • The Axeman’s Carnival: Novel Review

    The Axeman’s Carnival: Novel Review

    Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Catherine Chidgey Publisher: Allen & Unwin RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 19 March 2024 “And I belonged and did not belong, and I was bird and not-bird.” With such an unusual title and a proud magpie sitting on the cover, Catherine Chidgey’s The Axeman’s Carnival is an unexpected and brilliant story.…

  • Tandem venit amor, and others.

    Tandem venit amor, and others.

    Translated by Jena Woodhouse.   Tandem venit amor… Sulpicia, 1st century AD   Now love has finally come, it would be the better part of valour to keep it obscure, veiling the heart in pudency, confiding in no-one. Cythera has conspired with the Muses to endow our ardent embrace; Venus has honoured all her promises.…

  • Someone Else’s Bucket List: Novel Review

    Someone Else’s Bucket List: Novel Review

    Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Amy T Matthews Publisher: Simon & Schuster RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 31 January 2024 “Plant a tree that will live long after I’m gone. Something shady. That also has blossoms.” Sometimes, it takes the people who know us best to push us out of hiding from life and start to…

  • Mothman

    Mothman

    by Jack Morley.   ‘Ma’am, would you please breathe for a moment.’ ‘Sorry, this is just all very overwhelming,’ she says. ‘I’ve never had to give a statement to a police officer, let alone the Sheriff.’ She pulls a tissue from the box sitting on his tidy desk. ‘Just tell me when you’d like me…

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