• Fugue

    Fugue

    By Jane Frank There’s a dotted line between where she ends and the rest  of the world begins, where those otherworldly creatures  she loves live like pets.  She feeds them. She drives…

  • Sketch: Creek Lane Maryborough, 1978 

    Sketch: Creek Lane Maryborough, 1978 

    By Jane Frank You: cycling along the laneway   beside the garden  where hundreds of mignonette lettuce grow— two in your basket— change jangling in your pinafore pocket cassia trees in flower bougainvillea…

  • Hobart Reset

    Hobart Reset

    By Jane Frank Part of me hovers in icy harbour air. Beyond the skein  of streets, the peak glows orange.  Love just is  and we happen to be in the path of…

  • Jane Frank

    Jane Frank

    Dr Jane Frank is a Brisbane poet, editor and academic. Her debut poetry collection Ghosts Struggle to Swim was published by Calanthe Press in May 2023, and she is the author of…

  • Interview with Katya de Beccera: Haunted by the desire to know the truth.

    Interview with Katya de Beccera: Haunted by the desire to know the truth.

    By Louise Sapphira Valuing the importance of family, whilst also staying true to your beliefs. Young adult fiction can have as many twists and turns, hopes and tribulations as adult fiction. The…

  • Interview with Robyn Cadwallader: Time has travelled but the warmth in our hearts has stayed

    Interview with Robyn Cadwallader: Time has travelled but the warmth in our hearts has stayed

    By Louise Sapphira Centuries can pass, but relating to the pain and the injustices that people have and continue to experience is still powerful Historical fiction can speak to the reader about…

  • Interview with Jacqueline Ross: A childhood home, its history, and its influence on our existence

    Interview with Jacqueline Ross: A childhood home, its history, and its influence on our existence

    By Louise Sapphira Australian history within a derelict setting along our own coastlines can seep into our worlds and those around us. The Australian gothic novel Blackwater is about pregnant Grace and her husband…

  • Jonathan Butterworth

    Jonathan Butterworth

    As an aspiring writer, Jonathan spends his life playing scribe to his overactive imagination. His penchant for intimate and engaging stories matched only by his love for fantastical worlds and the desire…

  • Michael Tyler

    Michael Tyler

    Michael Tyler has been published by Takahe, Bravado, Adelaide Literary, PIF, Daily Love, Danse Macabre, Apocrypha and Abstractions, Dash, The Fictional Café, Potato Soup Journal, Fleas On The Dog, Cardinal Sins, and…

  • A Brief Memoir of Raven Street

    A Brief Memoir of Raven Street

    By Jena Woodhouse A poet came to live in Raven Street. The people of that neighbourhood were not in awe of anyone. The man was a stranger, but they did not find…

  •  Dream of Endless Night

     Dream of Endless Night

    By Jacob Pilkington He blinks. Psy-cannons exerted themselves above the barriers, screaming as they shot into the icy distance of the frozen world. With their backs to the shields, Jaymes Rissen crouched…

  • Sculpted

    Sculpted

    By Samuel M Johnston The light seeps through the blinds, engulfing the studio in a harsh glow. My hands wrap around the sculpture, gliding down each curve, adjusting each scuff so it…

  • Lyssa Stevens

    Lyssa Stevens

    Lyssa is a Melbourne based writer who is currently in her final year of study at Swinburne, completing a Bachelor of Media and Communications with a major in Creative Writing and Literature.…

  • Aliens, Owls and Mirror Images

    Aliens, Owls and Mirror Images

    By Lyssa Stevens 12-03-21 What if the clouds were alien spaceships that monitor humans? 2020 would make a lot more sense if we were an experiment that went completely out of their…

  • Danyel Deran

    Danyel Deran

    Danyel Deran thanks Other Terrain journal editor, Matt Richardson, for taking the time to edit and read his work (Thank you, Matt. You’re my superstar).

  • Book Review: Periodic Boyfriends

    Book Review: Periodic Boyfriends

    Reviewer: Antonia Cassetta Author: Drew Pisarra The new, viscerally queer poetry collection from Drew Pisarra is a carnal exploration of love and sexuality through a series of encounters laid out across the…

  • Bee Miles: Non-Fiction Review.

    Bee Miles: Non-Fiction Review.

    Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Rose Ellis Publisher: Allen&Unwin RRP: $34.99 Release Date: 29 August 2023 “Bee Miles always maintained that she didn’t want to be known, even though she lived most…

  • Sleepless in Stringybark Bay : Novel Review

    Sleepless in Stringybark Bay : Novel Review

    Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Susan Duncan Publisher: Allen & Unwin RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 29 August 2023 “Sam shook his head. As far as he could judge, there were three people…

  • Writely or Wrongly: Non-Fiction Review

    Writely or Wrongly: Non-Fiction Review

    Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Joanne Anderson with Illustrations by Matt Golding Publisher: Murdoch Books RRP: $29.99 Release Date: 3 October 2023 “This book is about playing nicely by current conventions of…

  • Zara Kernan

    Zara Kernan

    Zara is a third-year Swinburne student studying a Bachelor of Media and Communication with a major in Professional Writing and Editing. Her favourite things are writing (everything from poetry to scripts), good…