Category: Essays
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The Witch in the Bottle
By Shannon Blake It is said that the Priory Church of Dunstable, England was once haunted by the ghost of a troublesome witch. According to legend, Sally had once been regarded as something of a harmless eccentric within the community, a strange and lonesome woman who told fortunes and dabbled in medicine. But as…
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It’s all grist for the mill.
By Jessica Murdoch. Stephen King, Dr. Roxane Gay, Phillip Pullman, Joanne Harris, J.K. Rowling, John Marsden, Oodgeroo Noonuccal. The list of writers who teach (or used to) is a long and illustrious one. These two roles seem to be two paths which are able to successfully intertwine. What is it about these careers that make…
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Selfies on my Mind
By Jacob Parsons I have a confession to make: I am a millennial that has never shared a selfie on social media. I feel very much in the minority here. Posting a selfie is a display of self-consciousness I have never felt comfortable with. I do, however, share my writing at any opportunity. A friend…
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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 and largely empty space between freedom and detention. It has taken months of patient planning to get this far. Copies of passport, driver’s…
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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 done this – somewhere in Australia or overseas – for more than 150 days, much of it consecutive. The question I am most…