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Mickey Stosser
Mickey is a trans, Autistic songwriter. Their art aims to give voice to the feelings that we didn’t know we had. They create music under the name Local Sweetheart (@localsweetheartmusic). Their intimate…
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Violin Notes
By Erin Jamieson a cramped auditorium with sticky budget seats a mother holding a baby ho glares at me as if to say why are you still here? heads dusted with…
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Portrait with Sunflowers
By Jena Woodhouse She is seated on a chair upholstered in worn tapestry, cerulean and turquoise with a terracotta foil. She is worn and softened in her contours like the furniture; the…
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Mark O’Flynn
Mark O’Flynn’s novel The Last Days of Ava Langdon (UQP) was short listed for the Miles Franklin Award, 2017. A collection of short stories Dental Tourism appeared in 2020. His recent collections…
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Karla Whitmore
The world is beset by destabilizing geopolitical and environmental issues. These present a challenge, not only to comprehend and attempt to mitigate, but also to find hope for society as we know…
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Jena Woodhouse
As a result of living in Greece for more than a decade, and having also spent time in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, Russia and Turkey, as…
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Grieving
By Jena Woodhouse Grieving seldom comes clean from the bone, though women who keen sublimate the mundane in their terrible song; but for those such as I there’s the gangrene of…
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Ellen Irwin
Ellen Irwin is an aspiring author of historical sagas set in the Western Isles of Scotland and the Irish Sea region. She has been writing and storytelling since she first learned to…
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A SACRED THING
By Wendy J. Dunn Centuries ago Porphyrus wrote: “A threshold is a sacred thing.” I think the sacredness of the threshold is the fire of imagination where a creator is consumed…
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Pasta, Pizza, and Dumplings
By A. Rogers Pasta, pizza, and dumplings. I feel as if I measure our life by how many pastas, pizzas and dumplings we’ve had. Can a relationship be summed up in three…
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Toss Me A Cigarette
By Michael Tyler ‘Want a bump?’ Were the first words I’d heard that morning since I’d struggled out of my tent and wandered barefoot for a drink. I turned to witness brunette beauty…
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A. Rogers
A. Rogers grew up in the forest and moved to the city, where her love for writing has grown and shifted. She has finished her Bachelor of Arts with a major in…
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Tinned Mackerel Curry
By Vanessa Perera As I sat carefully blowing into a spoonful of steaming basmati rice and tinned mackerel curry, my homesickness worsened. I had grown tired of eating cheap cornflakes and lactose-free…
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Vanessa Perera
Vanessa Perera is a Melbourne-based writer, originally from Sri Lanka. She is in her final year of studying creative writing at Swinburne University. Her literary interests gravitate towards life writing, particularly narratives…
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Lucy & Freya
By A. Rogers Friday night. There is something so freeing and terrifying about being in a new place, a new environment, a new city, a new town. Invisibility is the greatest fresh…
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In Faith’s Way
By Matthew Rush ‘Max, please listen to me; your route leads us through the Nepean Highway! It’s the prime location for an ambush,’ she says frantically. ‘We can’t afford to get caught…
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Forgive Us Our Trespasses
By Imogen Lenore Williams There was nothing much to say before my Great Aunt’s funeral. So, Mum and I went to the toilet for an anxious wee, worried about the readings we’d…
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Imogen Lenore Williams
After initially refusing to learn to read, Imogen Lenore Williams decided to pursue creative writing. Imogen is studying Creative Writing and Marketing at Swinburne University. In 2018, she won the Senior Secondary…
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Mighty One
By Jaime Screen Finnegan Soteri felt everything: the mud under his bare feet, seeping between his toes, the rain drenching him, the leaves and wind whipping his face and all the skin it could…
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Jaime Screen
Jaime is a young writer from Melbourne. After being sucked into fairytales and faraway lands as a child, she never learnt how to leave. She now spends her time writing about all…
