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In the forest of awaiting.
Death is not the end.
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A girl’s courageous, heart-wrenching story of finding justice.
By Louise Sapphira. Christine Balint uses historical fiction to explore the true story of a young teenager who finds that the people she cherishes most turn away from her as she…
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Review: Shades of Yellow
Review by Bianca Pritchard Five centuries later, and Amy Robsart is best known for her death. The painting ‘The Death of Amy Robsart’ is a vivid depiction of this legacy: a…
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Reels and Regimentals
By Jane Downing. It all started with an invitation which came in the form of a letter, handwritten on thick Basildon Bond notepaper and delivered to the society’s pigeonhole. No legitimate postal…
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Eggpocalypse
‘What is the perfect omelette?’
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A murderer’s motive that keeps the reader guessing from the beginning.
By Louise Sapphira. Shailee Thompson’s debut novel challenges preconceptions about genre while exploring modern dating and relationships woven into a night of passionate crime. Speed dating takes a turn for…
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Walnut Roll
By Ilona Kocsis. Rozália flits around the kitchen with restless uncertainty, like a sparrow that can’t decide where to land. She needs a distraction to dull her constant feelings of displacement.…
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Ilona Kocsis
Ilona Kocsis is a Western Australian writer of Hungarian heritage, living in Perth/Boorloo on the lands of the Whadjuk Nyoongar people. Ilona is the author of ‘Ilka’s Kitchen. Stories and Recipes from…
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Seren Powell
Seren is a student at Swinburne University, back again to study Creative Writing and Publishing after graduating in 2021 with a degree in Communication Design (Honours). Their favourite genre is fantasy, a…
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Madelynn Ramm
Madelynn Ramm is a Creative Writing student in a Bachelor of Arts course at Swinburne and started working on the Other Terrain Literary Journal in 2025. Madelynn is passionate about all types…
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Luka Mackew
Luka is a business, literature and creative writing student with a particular interest in stories that explore the complexities of the human experience. Drawn to work grounded in realism, he gravitates toward…
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A Poet Reacts in an Age of Horror
By Hugh McMillan Thank you for your submission. We have many submissions and it is our policy to reply to all submissions within six years. Please do not get in touch before…
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Delivery (Following a report that anti-matter is to be carried across Europe in a seven ton lorry)
By Hugh McMillan I imagine in the future anti-matter might be delivered by our Evri driver, the one with the pony tail who’s so kind to old ladies and has that…
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In Memoriam Anna Blaylock
By Hugh McMillan Railway embankments are fantastic things, scooped like wings against the sky which today is a cold blue. Willowherb, going grey as beards, and stiff stained grass tinted black-…
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You Are Not in This Poem
By Steve Evans. In the style of a poet who makes a point of never really arriving (at a point, that is), I have watched and noted my own comings and…
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The Fire
When we fed him to the fire he didn’t complain, not even a squeak. I’d expected a last weary comment, some small and specific dissatisfaction: my hair’s parted wrong I don’t like…
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Black-Out
By Steve Evans. The dark is suddenly louder and I am still. The stove clock says not even its usual zero. Light retreats along its wires. The outside comes in. …
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A Night Off
By Steve Evans. Tonight the lines can lie untended in their texts, the songs hum themselves to sour sleep, the chapters chafe restless but ignored and characters lost in a maze of…
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Psalm of the Old Believers, XVII century
translated from the Russian by Jena Woodhouse At sunset, when the sun went down, We lay down to sleep; Early, early did we take our rest, Our prayers unsaid; …
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Marina Tsvetaeva queues for potatoes Moscow, winter 1919
Word spreads like wildfire, of potatoes shipped in from the provinces. Quick! Run home! Your daughter’s sled! You double as the sled dog. Line up at the cellar mouth: thirty steps into…
