Category: Issue Nine
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Kiara Ash
Kiara Ash is a young and upcoming author who believes in exposing the truths and injustices in our society. Even though she never wanted to be a political writer, her passion to change wrongs by putting words on her page might cause her to be one. Whilst an activist in her writing, she prefers to…
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Twilight Driving
By Lauren Connell One… Two… Three… I tally dead roos littered on the roadside. Locals swear the mangled phantoms of the roos haunt this highway. They say this is the shittiest road in the country to drive on during those uncertain hours of dusk. Dad says you’re a bloody idiot if you drive along…
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Shearing
By Heidi Scheffers It must be about two-thirty in the afternoon because the sweat under my armpits is just reaching my belt. I probably dragged this broom across the shed floor a million times today, and for a million days before that, for all of seven summers since I was ten. The shearers yell…
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Ronnie Scott Interview
By Samuel Elliott Ronnie Scott was born in Newcastle, grew up in Brisbane and lives in Melbourne. In 2007 he founded The Lifted Brow, an independent literary magazine. He is board chair and president of TLB, the non-profit organisation that publishes The Lifted Brow and Brow Books, and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at RMIT University. Ronnie is a two-time MacDowell Colony Fellow and a writer of essays and criticism. The Adversary is…
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Above the Water
By Kiara Ash Grandmother often tells me stories about where we come from. The sweeping coastlines, rugged cliffs, and passionate waterfalls. She gets this sad, wistful look on her face, a look of longing for another life. I ask her, ‘Grandmother, why go there?’ and she always gives me the same answer: ‘It doesn’t…
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Book Review: The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
By Tom Van Essen Reading Ronnie Scott’s (of The Listed Brow esteem) debut novel ‘The Adversary’ struck me with its wistful immediacy. A kind of sentimentality that made me simultaneously longing and repellent for my days of inner-city sharehouse living, in all its messy, hellish finitude. Yet, it was the complicated politics of gay friendship…
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R.W.R. McDonald Interview
By Samuel Elliott Rob McDonald is a Kiwi living in Melbourne with his two daughters and an extended rainbow family including HarryCat and Stevie Nicks the chicken. Rob attended Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel Stage 1 and Stage 2 and an excerpt of The Nancys was published in the Faber Writing Academy ‘Writing a Novel’…
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Karen
By Heidi Scheffers You are reduced to a number when you clock in for the day. In here, there are no days, no time. The light is always on: it beams down on you from big, industrial somethings in the ceiling. You can’t see them, nor can you even see the ceiling – they…
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#typical
By CJ Vallis Friday night just before Christmas. One beer after work at a loud Newtown pub. Just to be social. I’m keen to head home, slump on my sofa in tracksuit pants, and watch a mindless Thriller. Back to the car, I bunch keys into my fist—more out of habit than fear—mostly I’m…
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Book Review: The Nancys by Rob McDonald
Reviewed by Taylor Donlon ‘Don’t tell your mother. She’ll kill me!’ Rob McDonald is an author from New Zealand, currently living in Melbourne. His 2019 debut adult crime novel, The Nancys, is a classic whodunnit murder mystery with a twist – and the twist is the eccentric characters who bring a bit of sparkle…
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Heidi Scheffers
Heidi Scheffers is a Creative Writing/Law student at Swinburne University. By nature of this combination, words are her everything: work, play, power, freedom and wonder. She likes people too – last year she enjoyed hosting Spoken Word at the Hammer & Swine and volunteering at the Australian Short Story Festival, and she’s always hyping her writerly…
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CJ Vallis
I write stories that might be true. At present I’m finishing a Masters in Creative Writing (among a zillion other projects). I have been published in SWAMP, Vertigo, Grieve Volume 7 (2019), and the UTS Writing Anthology, in which I won the 2019 UTS Writing Anthology prize. My microfiction was selected for inclusion in Spineless…
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Lauren Connell
Lauren is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in both Creative Writing and Literature as well as Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University of Technology. She is 22 years old, and has grown up and continues to live in the remote Macedon Ranges. As a result, much of her writing tends to reflect rural…