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David Allen Sullivan
David Allen Sullivan’s books include: Strong-Armed Angels, Every Seed of the Pomegranate, a book of co-translation with Abbas Kadhim from the Arabic of Iraqi Adnan Al-Sayegh, Bombs Have Not Breakfasted Yet, and Black Ice. He won the…
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Marilyn Humbert
Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern suburbs of Sydney NSW surrounded by bush. Marilyn is leader of Bottlebrush Tanka Group, and member of Bowerbird and Tanka Huddle. Her tanka and haiku can…
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The Power of Hope- Or: How Community, Love & Compassion Can Change the World By Kon Karapanagiotidis
By Thomas Van Essen. Despite its flaws, ‘The Power of Hope’ is an inspired antidote for apathy, hatred and injustice. Teacher,social worker, humanitarian activist, human rights lawyer and CEO of the…
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Book Review of Lindsay Simpson’s Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal Story
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “Like addicts on the world’s biggest bender, we are burning through our children’s and our children’s children’s inheritances so fast it should make our heads spin, yet nobody…
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The Many Forms of Prayer
By David Allen Sullivan.
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America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges.
By Thomas Van Essen. One of the great progressive American voices left in journalism is back, and with arguably his most bleak and urgent call for action yet. “That the end is coming…
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Felicity Plunkett
Felicity Plunkett is a poet and critic. Her first collection Vanishing Point (UQP, 2009) won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize and was short-listed for several other awards. Her chapbook Seastrands (2011)…
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Denise O’Hagan
Denise is an editor by trade. Born in Italy, she lived in the UK before emigrating to Australia. She holds an MA in Bibliography and Textual Criticism and has a background in…
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Wendy J Dunn
Wendy J. Dunn is an award-winning Australian writer fascinated by Tudor history – so much so she was not surprised to discover a family connection to the Tudors, not long after the…
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Eugen Bacon
Eugen Bacon is a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She has sold many stories and articles, together with anthologies. Her stories have won, been shortlisted and commended in international awards,…
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Expectations
By Mohammad Ali Maleki* I dedicate this poem to the Manus Island detainees who have lost their lives. We have them all in our minds and will never forget them. Hey,…
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How could you do this to us?
By Christine Hill This essay won the 2017 Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition for Non fiction and was first published in Writers Victoria. I find myself in no-man’s-land – a large…
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Anne Casey
Originally from the west of Ireland and living in Sydney, Anne Casey is author of five poetry collections. A journalist and legal author for 30 years, her work is widely published internationally,…
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Dr Carolyn Beasley
Carolyn is the Faculty’s Program Director of undergraduate and postgraduate Writing courses. This encompasses the Creative Writing and Literature major, Professional Writing and Editing major, Graduate Certificate of Arts (Writing), Graduate Diploma…
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Nessa O’Mahony
Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin and lives there. She won the National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards. She has…
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Exile
By Michelle Cahill To ride the curved fronds of rain-splashed palms with nothing but exiled eyes, to cut through manacle vines. To moult like the sunburnt skin of a gum tree, wounds…
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Public Statement by Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars on Australia’s
By Michele Seminara *A found poem sourced from a joint letter published in New Matilda on 10 Jul 2014. The letter was signed by 137 academics from across the globe and condemned the Australian…
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Making a stand. By Isobelle Carmody
Tonight the air smelled of rain as I stood in King George Square for one hour, holding a sign over my head protesting the brutal bipartisan practice of off-shore detention. I have…
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The Door Behind You
By Joshua Kepreotis. John left at night to walk all the way through the darkness and find a way to the fishing port town of Agia Pelagia by morning, when the boat…
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Book review: Autonomy
Review by Abby Claridge. ‘ Only a woman can know the visceral desire to end a pregnancy she is experiencing against her will – no man… can ever understand this.’ My biggest struggle…
