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Reece Pye
Reece Pye is a former undergraduate student of Swinburne University who majored in Professional Writing & Editing. He hopes to one day become a fulltime novelist, or else work as a journalist…
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Twilight Driving
By Lauren Connell One… Two… Three… I tally dead roos littered on the roadside. Locals swear the mangled phantoms of the roos haunt this highway. They say this is the shittiest…
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Shearing
By Heidi Scheffers It must be about two-thirty in the afternoon because the sweat under my armpits is just reaching my belt. I probably dragged this broom across the shed floor…
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Ronnie Scott Interview
By Samuel Elliott Ronnie Scott was born in Newcastle, grew up in Brisbane and lives in Melbourne. In 2007 he founded The Lifted Brow, an independent literary magazine. He is board chair and president of TLB, the non-profit…
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Above the Water
By Kiara Ash Grandmother often tells me stories about where we come from. The sweeping coastlines, rugged cliffs, and passionate waterfalls. She gets this sad, wistful look on her face, a…
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Book Review: The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
By Tom Van Essen Reading Ronnie Scott’s (of The Listed Brow esteem) debut novel ‘The Adversary’ struck me with its wistful immediacy. A kind of sentimentality that made me simultaneously longing and…
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R.W.R. McDonald Interview
By Samuel Elliott Rob McDonald is a Kiwi living in Melbourne with his two daughters and an extended rainbow family including HarryCat and Stevie Nicks the chicken. Rob attended Faber Academy’s Writing…
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Karen
By Heidi Scheffers You are reduced to a number when you clock in for the day. In here, there are no days, no time. The light is always on: it beams…
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#typical
By CJ Vallis Friday night just before Christmas. One beer after work at a loud Newtown pub. Just to be social. I’m keen to head home, slump on my sofa in…
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Book Review: The Nancys by Rob McDonald
Reviewed by Taylor Donlon ‘Don’t tell your mother. She’ll kill me!’ Rob McDonald is an author from New Zealand, currently living in Melbourne. His 2019 debut adult crime novel, The Nancys,…
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Heidi Scheffers
Heidi Scheffers is a Creative Writing/Law student at Swinburne University. By nature of this combination, words are her everything: work, play, power, freedom and wonder. She likes people too – last year she…
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CJ Vallis
I write stories that might be true. At present I’m finishing a Masters in Creative Writing (among a zillion other projects). I have been published in SWAMP, Vertigo, Grieve Volume 7 (2019),…
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Taylor Donlon
Taylor Donlon is a student studying Creative Writing and Literature as well as Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. She is passionate about literature and hopes to become a novelist in…
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Lauren Connell
Lauren is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in both Creative Writing and Literature as well as Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University of Technology. She is 22 years old, and…
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Book Review: Clare Rhoden’s The Ruined Land
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “[…] Hector had no idea what Jarli’s business was with the ravine canini, but he had detected a bio-echo that troubled him. Jarli’s life-force, Hector’s sensors told him,…
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Helen Moore
Helen Moore is an award-winning British ecopoet and socially engaged artist based in Sydney. She has published three poetry collections, Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins(Shearsman Books, 2012), ECOZOA (Permanent Publications, 2015),…
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Jacqueline Moran
Jacqueline Moran is a PhD candidate at Swinburne University and lifelong Melbournian. She has degrees in games design and psychology and is currently putting them to use in her thesis about the…
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Carly Rawson
Carly Rawson studies creative writing at Swinburne University. She loves literature, her small child, and the sea. She dreams of reconciling all three. Her writing has been published in The Big Issue and…
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Avoidance in Five Parts.
by Kate Harland. Sitting on a Bench in the Afternoon They sat side by side on a park bench. In front of them a playground, behind them a white building with columns and…
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Lovers
By Laura Wild I’m lying in bed scrolling through my Facebook feed, listening to him potter around the apartment and getting ready to join me. We’re going to bed late, again. Every…
