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Bill Cotter
Bill Cotter has been writing short stories and poetry for forty years, He has won a number of literary awards, including the poetry prize for the International Library of Poetry, the Maryborough…
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Lyn Chatham
Lyn Chatham lives in Geelong. She works as a teacher of adult literacy. She has had work published in the genres of short fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her story, ‘Mars Bars and…
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Rebecca Jane
Rebecca Jane is a student from the Yarra Valley currently studying writing and film in Bachelor of Arts. Her stories have been published twice in a Queensland Magazine, which has also shown…
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Nicole Russo
Nicole Russo is a Sub-editor of Other Terrain journal. Currently studying her final year of Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. She loves reading novels as it allows her to get…
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Trina Denner
Trina Denner is currently engaged in a PhD project, examining YA fiction through the creation of an artefact and exegesis.
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Guest Reflection
By Julia Prendergast It is my pleasure to reflect upon this issue of Other Terrain. I found myself immersed in voices of startling authenticity and yearning. The prose and poetry contributions in…
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Julia Prendergast
Julia Predergast has a PhD in Writing and Literature. Julia is a short fiction addict. Her short stories have been longlisted, shortlisted and published: Lightship Anthology 2 (UK), Glimmer Train (US), Séan Ó Faoláin Competition, Munster Literature…
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Skye Jenner
Skye Jenner has a Masters in Writing and is currently working towards her PhD in science, whilst absorbing every bit of the written word she can possibly get her hands on.
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The Quickening
by James Nicolson Jane had seen the news reports. Animated billboards spilled their message as moving colours across travelways; others using public transport would have the same message projected into their eyes…
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Silt
By Eloise Faichney Stassi lay with Cole’s corpse for two nights. It wasn’t until the third night that she dared to reach out and touch him. She poked solid flesh with a…
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Treasure
By Kathryn Ryman The cave is larger than the beast that keeps it. The walls stretch up high into the dark and the roof seems as distant as the moon when first…
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The Town
by Keren Heenan Out here the wind always blows up high and hard before a storm; the sudden buffeting of trees against the wall, low murmur building to a howl and the…
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Kathryn Ryman
Katie Ryman is a Professional Writing and Editing student at Swinburne. She has wanted to be a writer since she was five and has recently come to the conclusion that in order…
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Shinkansen
By Trina Denner It was cold. The carriage doors opened to let in the young woman, and, with her, a gust of wind that carried an assurance of snow. They closed behind,…
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New Dog
By Andy Goss ‘We need a dog,’ she said. ‘There will never be another Suki, you know that.’ ‘Yes. But it was so good, having that other person, that animal person in…
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The Fishbowl Astronaut
by Clare Millar On the driveway was the kind of van you would expect to be told about before arriving home. Stark white with the letters ‘exterminator’, it was parked right in…
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Clare Millar
Clare Millar studies creative writing / literature and professional writing / editing at Swinburne University. She’s part of the editorial committee at Voiceworks where she focuses on poetry. Clare also teaches creative…
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womb
By Eloise Faichney the little girl, quietly climbing the stairs in a large house, escaped from a neglectful au pair’s eyes step by delicate step, small feet trace the white carpet…
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276
By Clare Millar To the 276 girls taken by boko haram, I hope that you’re still 276 whole girls and not 552 half-girls-half-unravelled. It’s been far more than 276 days, and we…
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Who am I?
By Wendy Dunn My mother told me, ‘You’ll be a wife and mother Just like me Good girls don’t sleep with men But wait for the ring
