• Interview with Solli Raphael.

    Interview with Solli Raphael.

    By Abby Claridge. ‘This Australian air is polluted with choking from our own depression, and if we don’t fight for our rights it’s like mixing hemimorphite and pegmatite, so that you can…

  • Annie

    Annie

    By Anne Elvey  

  • [50] Tin

    [50] Tin

    By Tricia Dearborn From the sequence ‘Autobiochemistry’ First published in Island 153 (2018) and to appear in Tricia’s new collection entitled Autobiochemistry (UWAP 2019). 

  • Nuala O’Connor

    Nuala O’Connor

    Nuala O’Connor lives in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Ireland. Her fifth short story collection Joyride to Jupiter was published by New Island in 2017; her story ‘Gooseen’ won the UK’s 2018 Short Fiction Prize and was published in Granta. Nuala’s…

  • Col Grant

    Col Grant

    I was educated at Oxford University and Brunel University and have worked as an academic in England, Hong Kong, and Australia. I have been published in each country and in a variety…

  • Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

    Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

    By Thomas Van Essen. Set primarily in the mountainside city of Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, Killing Commedatore follows the life of a nameless, recently estranged artist who moves into the former residence of…

  • The Cusp

    The Cusp

    by Marilyn Humbert  

  • Powerless

    Powerless

    by Ellen Shelley    

  • A Mourning

    A Mourning

    By Reece Pye I’d never been to a funeral before. But this isn’t what concerned me, as much as it upset me. What I was concerned about was that I was going…

  • Lawn

    Lawn

    By Col Grant. 

  • Michael Aiken

    Michael Aiken

    Michael Aiken is a parent of four, living and working in Sydney. His first book, A Vicious Example, was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize, the Dame Mary Gilmore Award and an…

  • Duck Creek

    Duck Creek

    By Michael Aiken

  • Lyn Zelen

    Lyn Zelen

    Lyn Zelen is a Freelance Writer, Office Coordinator for the Stella Prize and recent graduate majoring in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. Throughout her studies, Lyn continued to write diverse…

  • Laughing Lama

    Laughing Lama

    By Paul Casey. “Difficulty comes with the third mosquito” – Dalai Lama how shall we lift the blindness he asks between fits of laughter that hides the imperceptible source of their joy?…

  • Book review: Vox by Christina Dalcher

    Book review: Vox by Christina Dalcher

    By Thomas Van Essen “I wonder what other women do. How they cope. Do they still find something to enjoy? Do they love their husbands in the same way? Do they hate them,…

  • Mechanical Hearts

    Mechanical Hearts

    By Rebecca Jane It was strange seeing a flesh and bone human being. Leahtried to ignore the man, tried not to watch in fascination as he wandered around the room, analysing every…

  • Dr. Roanna Gonsalves

    Dr. Roanna Gonsalves

    Dr. Roanna Gonsalves (PhD., UNSW) is the author of The Permanent Resident, published in South Asia as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney. The book won the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Multicultural Prize 2018, and was longlisted for the…

  • Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney

    By Philip Porter Seamus Heaney died today With a simple note; noli timere -Don’t be afraid- To his wife, not the world On a phone Not scratched in peat With his father’s…

  • Paul Casey

    Paul Casey

    Paul Casey has published poems in journals and anthologies in Ireland and around the world. His most recent collection is Virtual Tides (Salmon Poetry, 2016). This follows home more or less (Salmon, 2012) and a chapbook, It’s Not…

  • His Favorites – Kate Walbert.

    His Favorites – Kate Walbert.

    Reviewed by Thomas Van Essen “Thank you for listening he wrote. Dear beautiful, he wrote. I know I can trust you, he wrote. I think of you all day, he wrote I…