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Taj Martin
Taj is a undergrad psychology student at Swinburne University who likes writing sad stories in his spare time. His other interests include all forms of media consumption and things creative.
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Run For Your Life: Non-Fiction Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Sue Williams Publisher: Simon & Schuster RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 3 April 2024 “On a rugged beach of fiery red sand, shark-infested waters and patrolling crocodiles somewhere…
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Ruairi Walsh
Raised in the rural town of Smythes Creek, Ruairi Walsh is a filmmaker and creative writer based in Melbourne. Engaged with the creative practice as a whole, his disciplines change and grow…
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Isabella Tuccio
Isabella is a second-year student at Swinburne University, currently completing a Bachelor of Psychological Sciences, alongside Creative Writing and Literature. An avid reader and writer since she was small, Isabella has always…
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Here After: Non-Fiction Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Amy Lin Publisher: Zibby Books RRP: $34.99 Release Date: 1 July 2024 “When he dies, I fall out of time.” Canadian author Amy Lin’s memoir, Here…
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Kit McBride Gets A Wife: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Amy Barry Publisher: Simon & Schuster RRP: $22.99 Release Date: 3 April 2024 “Well, spit. How was Junebug to know flour was flammable?” Teenage Junebug McBride has…
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Drew Pisarra’s Fassbinder
Reviewed by Antonia Cassetta Drew Pisarra’s latest poetry collection, Fassbinder, is a professed fan letter to the films of the eponymous Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Pisarra plays on the friction of author and…
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Empty
By Taj Martin They made me return to the studio from the hospital. Apparently, I had made a remarkable recovery. My plain room, with the view of the garden, would be…
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Darwin, with Archie.
By Charlie Gill In Darwin, when it was too hot outside, we’d lie on our beds and watch reruns of A Current Affair. Smug journalists in shirtsleeves would loiter outside brick-walled…
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Charlie Gill
Charlie Gill is a third-year Film and TV student at Swinburne and the founding editor of The Rotunda, a community newspaper for North Fitzroy. Over 7000 copies of each issue are printed, delivered…
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Religion
By Peter Dellolio THE CEMETERY GROUNDSKEEPER, annoyed at having his peaceful day interrupted, chased the pack of noisy boys away. If they were not visiting a relative or friend who had…
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Boathouse
By Jan Wiezorek I see now that mystery chops at water. I see now those fractal oars in the sky. I cannot see fear on my face, but I feel flint move…
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Then and Now
by Wendy J. Dunn JOAN OF ARC (Written at sixteen). Today I die Today I die I remember when I first heard them in the green meadows of my home,…
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The Flynn Effect
by Ib Svane On the Swedish west coast, where the Skagerrak meets the Kattegat, is a fjord called Gullmarsfjorden, or Gullmarn. At the mouth of the fjord is the island of Skaftö…
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SpaceTruck: 1999
By Tim Augier An emerald shape streaked across the inky void of space. Impressed against the black canvas sporadically populated with far-off twinkles of white, a boxy, unnatural, object. It almost looked…
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Fly or Swim
By Jane Frank. A three-quarter moon is already hanging over the old aerodrome and horse paddocks but my head is crammed with the sea— it’s sheen—mosaic edge against the island,…
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Rise and Fall – A Cheerleader’s Triumph and Tragedy
By Mia Suda The club pop music blared from the speakers during the transition between setting up the next dance team’s routine from the previous one. Elara could feel the mounting tension…
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Complication
By Jane Frank.
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Alice
By Isabella Tuccio Alice, Alice quite unbalanced How does your brain stand still? With yellow pills and electric chills And doctors sharing each blow. * 15/03/2023 Alice sat on the steps…
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Garry Gets a Gun
By Les Wicks
