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Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro is the author ofMiriam the Medium(Simon & Schuster, 2004). Her essays, poetry, short stories have been published in such magazines asThe New York Times (Lives), Moment, Iowa Review, Peregrine,…
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Rose Lucas
Rose Lucas is a Melbourne poet. Her first collection, Even in the Dark (UWAP) won the Mary Gilmore Prize. Her second collection, Unexpected Clearingwas also published by UWAP in 2016. She is…
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Charles Murray
Charles Murray, born Dublin, Ireland 1940, migrated to Australia in 1963 with the intention of working in the teaching profession however fate and circumstance led to a career in the Civil, Marine and Defence…
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Magi Gibson
Magi Gibson has held three Scottish Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships and one Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellowship with the University of Paisley. She was the first Makar (Poet Laureate) of the…
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Jenny Blackford
Jenny Blackford lives in Newcastle, Australia. Her poems and stories have appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, Westerly, Going Down Swinging and Cosmos. Her poetry prizes include first place in the Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Poetry 2017, the…
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Magdalena Ball
Magdalena Ball is a novelist, poet, reviewer and interviewer, and is the managing editor of Compulsive Reader, a well-respected book review site that is now in its nineteenth year. She is the…
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Melinda Smith
Melinda Smith is the author of six poetry books, most recently Goodbye, Cruel(Pitt St Poetry, 2017) and the poetry + art chapbookMembers Only(Recent Work Press, 2017). Her work has been anthologised widely…
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Audrey Molloy
Audrey Molloy is an emerging Irish poet living in Sydney. Her poetry has appeared in The North, Magma, The Moth, Meanjin, Cordite, Overland and The Irish Times. Audrey received the Hennessy Award…
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Amanda Bell
Amanda Bell is a Dublin-based writer and editor. Her books include The loneliness of the sasquatch – from the Irish of Gabriel Rosenstock (Alba, 2018), First the Feathers (Doire, 2017), The Lost…
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Anita Patel
Anita Patel is a Canberra writer. She has had work published in the Canberra Times, in Summer Conversations (Pandanus Books, ANU), in Block 9, Burley Journal, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Demos…
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Introducing issue 7 of Other Terrain.
by Tom Meagher Glenice Whitting’s piece Why We need to Write the Exclusion Narratives captures a common theme throughout this issue of Other Terrain. In this issue, we explore the tragedy of the…
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Caitlin Bowen
Caitlin Bowen is currently in her third year at Swinburne University, studying both a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Arts. Enjoying all things books, literature and anything to do with…
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Courthouse Steps
By Jenny Butler Snow is swirling, landing gently on the courthouse steps. Prosecutor for twenty years and I can’t go up the goddamn steps. I pace and light another cigarette. Policy is…
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Wendy Wicks
I dropped out of my first degree. After 12 years, which included a marriage and kids, I went back to study and became in time, a radio producer and presenter, a practitioner…
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‘Autobiochemistry’ by Tricia Dearborn
Review by Caitlin Bowen Tricia Dearborn is a veteran of Australian literature, with ‘Autobiochemistry’ being her latest long-awaited release. A poetry anthology collection broken into five sections, we move through events in…
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IN THE GARDEN OF SUCCULENTS, CHANGI AIRPORT, TERMINAL 1
By Melinda Smith You and I enter by the Barrel Cactus, and stand too close to each other at the bar. Two beers, some conversation, some digs at the flight we…
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Claiming T-Mo by Eugen Bacon
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop She blinked, studied him anew. The man whose eyes were full of space when they were not holding something wild. They were chameleon, shifting appearance with light, as…
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Why we need to write the exclusion narratives
By Glenice Whitting Every person has the right to participate equally, to be valued, to be heard; therefore, exclusion narratives need to be revealed and scrutinised. Through these stories, we learn from…
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Above All Else, Respect Your Father
By Tina Tsironis There’s this small boy I know. In a tiny Greek village wedged within the port city of Perama, he loves playing hide-and-seek with his closest friends. He always picks…
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Tom Meagher
Tom is an award-winning campaigner, writer and communications professional, community development and advocacy strategist with a background in education and cultural change, particularly in the area of gender equality and violence against…
