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Sandcastles – by Ruth Armstrong
WINNER, OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY AWARD 2022
Rumi doesn’t know how long he’s been on the beach. He’s not sunburnt, thanks to his yellow and red lycra stinger suit. He’s not particularly thirsty either. The only sign that time has passed is the collection of identical sandcastles lined up in evenly spaced rows fanning back from the shore – each moulded into the turreted shape of his plastic beach bucket … When the tide goes out it will leave his creations pale and brittle in the sun, and by the following morning they will be gone – no trace of them amongst the stingray holes and fragments of chalky bleached coral …
The Mowing – by Ivy Ireland
WINNER, OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY AWARD 2021
That cloud looks more like a squished chicken than a dragon. Not a dragon day, then. Nothing auspicious. No signs or portents. Just an up-ended moon beside a squished chicken cloud, which is fast turning into a pile of dog turds. I close the blind before the sun rises above the tree line. I pour a coffee but don’t drink it. I wander in and out of my bedroom, but don’t change out of my crushed and sweaty PJs. I head outside and walk up the long, dusty drive to bring in the bins … I itch for a ciggie. No. As bad as things are, I’ve still got that one giant refusal to cling to …
Go Get Boy – by Alison Flett
WINNER, OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY AWARD 2020
I’m The Fetcher, Go Get Boy, barrelling along in the back of Darren’s ute, riding high on the highest pile of drydry firewood, gunna burn so good. I’m one of three, that’s me, that’s who I am, and the three of us are building one good fire. Others are building their own fires but ours’ll be biggest, ours’ll be best, ours’ll burnburnburn forever. No-one’ll forget us when they see our blaze …
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Arts Features
- 2 Apr 2024 The perfect human – by Niki Bañados
- 11 Dec 2023 The Last Ever Comic to be Published in a Literary Magazine…Ever!!
- 31 Jul 2023 We Were Here – by Sarah Firth
- 2 Jun 2021 Fury - by Andrew Harper, on Lucienne Rickard’s ‘Extinction Studies’
- 2 Jun 2021 Julie Gough: Tense Past
- 1 Jun 2021 Tiefenzeit - by Tricky Walsh
- 1 Jun 2021 Islands and Ships - by Joshua Santospirito
- 1 Jun 2021 The Intimacy of Daily Life: The News is the Weather - by Rosie Flanagan and Miriam McGarry
- 1 Jun 2021 Fragments of Place - by Andrew Harper
- 1 Jun 2021 Beware of Imposters (the secret life of flowers) - by Selena de Carvalho
- 31 May 2021 Welcome Territory - Selena de Carvalho responds to Tanya Lee’s ‘Landing’
- 27 May 2021 Sisters Akousmatica: Herstory of Radio
- 25 May 2021 Double Yolker - by Mish Meijers
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Fiction
- 15 May 2024 bodytruth – by Orlando Silver
- 15 May 2024 Lux – by Linden Hyatt
- 15 May 2024 Gristle and bone – by Jade Doyle
- 18 Apr 2024 Kevin – by Sarah Langfield
- 18 Apr 2024 Start where you are – by Jenny Sinclair
- 9 Apr 2024 Light hazard – by Sophie Overett
- 14 Mar 2024 Magic – by Maria Takolander and David McCooey
- 4 Mar 2024 The Budgie - by Jing Cramb
- 27 Nov 2023 The Interpreter – by Mariam Tokhi
- 13 Nov 2023 This Time Next Week – by Richard Rebel
- 13 Nov 2023 The Cheesewring – by Campbell Andersen
- 27 Oct 2023 Rat – by Anjelica Rush
- 14 Sep 2023 Nursery – by Nicola Redhouse
- 14 Sep 2023 Home of the Pure Heart, House of the Dying – by Rafael SW
- 21 Aug 2023 Sandcastles – by Ruth Armstrong
- 20 Aug 2023 The Mowing – by Ivy Ireland
- 16 Aug 2023 In the Archives – by Keely Jobe
- 11 Aug 2023 A Thin, Brilliant Line – by Lal Perera
- 6 Jul 2023 The River Path – by Tadhg Muller
- 6 Jun 2023 Strokes of White – by Julian Fell
- 23 May 2023 The Blue Fox – by Michael Burrows
- 23 May 2023 How to Kill a Pea – by Lara Keys
- 14 Apr 2023 Dottie and Pin Go Somewhere – by Kate Kruimink
- 29 Mar 2023 The Planet Terrarium - by Philomena van Rijswijk
- 2 Feb 2023 Sloane on the Mountain – by Alexander Bennetts
- 2 Feb 2023 Infrared – by Ryan Delaney
- 2 Feb 2023 The Day the Wave Came – by Paul Mitchell
- 17 Jan 2023 Collateral Damage – by John Tully
- 17 Jan 2023 Philomela – by Orana Loren
- 7 Dec 2022 The Museum – by Gemma Parker
- 7 Dec 2022 The Moths – by Gillian Britton
- 5 Dec 2022 Finger-branches – by Eliza Henry-Jones
- 10 Nov 2022 The Grass Painter – by KA Rees
- 23 Sep 2022 Nithing – by Clayton O’Toole
- 25 Aug 2022 Animal Life of Penang – by Claire Aman
- 25 Aug 2022 Butter – by Daniel Ray
- 15 Aug 2022 Not Gone, Just Different – by Rae White
- 15 Aug 2022 Rigel and Betelgeuse – by A E Macleod
- 1 Aug 2022 Get Joy from GetJoy – by Alex Cothren
- 20 Jun 2022 No Tomorrow – by Catherine Deery
- 20 Jun 2022 The Great Aviary of Love – by Kathryn Goldie
- 26 May 2022 Moss – by Jane Rawson
- 14 Apr 2022 Bombera – by Josefina Huq
- 17 Mar 2022 One Man’s Trash – by Piri Eddy
- 2 Mar 2022 Geometry of Lament – by Alicia Sometimes
- 10 Feb 2022 Interiors – by Zac Picker
- 21 Jan 2022 Phantom Menace Hours – by Victoria Manifold
- 21 Jan 2022 Sea Legs – by Sophie Overett
- 23 Nov 2021 Celebrity – by Chris McTrustry
- 5 Nov 2021 Fisher Girls – by Barry Lee Thompson
- 15 Oct 2021 Cake Flat - by Marion May Campbell
- 1 Oct 2021 An Encounter - by Katerina Gibson
- 16 Sep 2021 Captain Boner - by Alex Cothren
- 2 Sep 2021 Into the Clear Blue - by Susan McCreery
- 26 Aug 2021 Surrogate Mother - by Helena Pantsis
- 17 Aug 2021 An August for My July Mother - by Karina Ko
- 10 Aug 2021 The Good Woman - by Anneliz Erese
- 28 Jul 2021 A Man Alone - by Mark O’Flynn
- 13 Jul 2021 Boxing Day - by Fiona Robertson
- 2 Jul 2021 Severe Weather Warning - by Miriam Webster
- 24 Jun 2021 Three Fragments - by Cameron Hindrum
- 7 Jun 2021 King of Sweets - by Atul Joshi
- 6 Jun 2021 Agency - by Tasnim Hossain
- 2 Jun 2021 Go Get Boy – by Alison Flett
- 1 Jun 2021 Tiefenzeit - by Tricky Walsh
- 1 Jun 2021 The Lever, the Pulley and the Screw - by Andrew Roff
- 1 Jun 2021 The Voices of the Magpies - by Laura McPhee-Browne
- 1 Jun 2021 The Tick Tock Killer - by Alex Cothren
- 1 Jun 2021 Birds - by Anne Casey-Hardy
- 1 Jun 2021 The Wolves - by Josephine Rowe
- 1 Jun 2021 Cod Opening - by Wayne Marshall
- 27 May 2021 Stingrays - by Christine Kearney
- 25 May 2021 Eve - by Laura Elvery
- 23 May 2021 The Teeth and the Curl: A Note to a Cousin - by Robbie Arnott
- 23 May 2021 Extension - by Anthony Lynch
- 23 May 2021 Okay is a Verb - by Erin Hortle
- 23 May 2021 Into the Flames, Down to Our Shoes, Vienna - by John Saul
- 23 May 2021 Just Maybe - by Dominic Amerena
- 23 May 2021 46 - by Ana Duffy
- 23 May 2021 Apple Suite - by Danielle Wood
- 23 May 2021 Foundations - by Michael Blake
- 22 May 2021 Blackbird - by Magdalena Lane
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Nonfiction
- 15 May 2024 Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me – by Xiaole Zhan
- 18 Apr 2024 Laptop death – by David Thomas Henry Wright
- 18 Apr 2024 The goose of granite islands – by Suyanti Winoto-Lewin
- 2 Apr 2024 The perfect human – by Niki Bañados
- 1 Apr 2024 In Quarantine – by Megan Clement
- 31 Mar 2024 This Moon – by Megan Coupland
- 14 Mar 2024 Ghost streets – by Alexandra Sangster
- 4 Mar 2024 A thousand gifts – by Maki Morita
- 1 Feb 2024 Gifts from a harsh continent – by Tehnuka
- 11 Dec 2023 The Last Ever Comic to be Published in a Literary Magazine…Ever!!
- 27 Nov 2023 The Hairy Iceberg – by Kylie Moppert
- 27 Oct 2023 Scarface 1–5 – by Kylie Mirmohamadi
- 27 Oct 2023 The Conversation of Weaving – by RT Wenzel
- 14 Sep 2023 Sharehouse Archaeology – by Ale Prunotto
- 14 Sep 2023 In the River – by Searlait O’Neill
- 16 Aug 2023 Hawksbill – by Grace Heathcote
- 11 Aug 2023 Woonoongoora – by Caroline Gardam
- 31 Jul 2023 We Were Here – by Sarah Firth
- 22 Jun 2023 Objects of Illness/Recovery – by Anna Jacobson and Katerina Bryant
- 6 Jun 2023 The Dark House – by Emma Yearwood
- 23 May 2023 Lines of Location – by Johanna Ellersdorfer
- 23 May 2023 How to Build a Brother – by Helena Pantsis
- 28 Apr 2023 Selfish Ghosts – by Heather Taylor-Johnson
- 28 Apr 2023 Sudden, Temporary Deaths – by Chris Fleming
- 28 Apr 2023 Wingsets and Snowdrifts: A Subantarctic Year – by Emily Mowat
- 28 Apr 2023 The Long Daylight – by Jo Gardiner
- 28 Apr 2023 Chaste – by Suri Matondkar
- 14 Apr 2023 Landfall – by Megan Coupland
- 2 Feb 2023 Lines of Curiosity – by Margaret Aitken
- 17 Jan 2023 Learning to Be Tame – by Carla Silbert
- 17 Jan 2023 Rubbish – by Liz Betts
- 8 Dec 2022 Pamirs – by Nathan Mifsud
- 7 Dec 2022 Compare and Contrast – by Gillian Bouras
- 6 Dec 2022 Who Owns the Greek Myths? – by Katerina Cosgrove
- 22 Nov 2022 I Go Down to the Shore – by RT Wenzel
- 22 Nov 2022 The Shimmer of Flying Fox Landscape – by Matthew Chrulew
- 22 Nov 2022 Animal Rescue – by Bastian Fox Phelan
- 22 Nov 2022 In the Rain Shadow – by Jessica Carter
- 22 Nov 2022 The Magpie and the Scarecrow – by Helena Pantsis
- 22 Nov 2022 The Right One to Rescue – by Sharon Kent
- 23 Sep 2022 Far Out, Cats – by M.T. O’Byrne
- 1 Aug 2022 Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: Windsor Chairmaking in Tasmania – by Dan Dwyer
- 25 Jul 2022 Living Poets – by Jessica Lim
- 25 Jul 2022 An Open Space – by Luke Johnson
- 14 Jul 2022 A Shadow From Country – by Naomi Parry
- 14 Jul 2022 The Sound of Light – by Verity Borthwick
- 14 Jul 2022 If You Join the Circle, You Must Dance – by Katerina Cosgrove
- 14 Jul 2022 Hospitality – by Nicole Melanson
- 8 Jun 2022 The Ocean Sounds Like a Motorway – by Melissa Fagan
- 8 Jun 2022 The Backyard Project: Notes from Stolen Land – by Lia Hills
- 8 Jun 2022 Schrödinger’s Butterflies – by Dave Witty
- 8 Jun 2022 Feel the Quiet – by Zohra Aly
- 8 Jun 2022 And a Moth Flew Out – by Helena Kadmos
- 8 Jun 2022 A New Garden – by Erica Nathan
- 26 May 2022 The Third Angel of Chernobyl – by Carmel Bird
- 13 Apr 2022 A Year Without Mirrors – by Sarah Klenbort
- 17 Mar 2022 The Turkeys – by Saraid Taylor
- 2 Mar 2022 Spectral Coordinates – by Brigid Magner
- 10 Feb 2022 Falling Asleep Under the Love Umbrella – by Clare Millar
- 6 Dec 2021 A Waving Forest – by Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn
- 6 Dec 2021 Changing Spots – by Sharon Kent
- 6 Dec 2021 A Questionable Survey of Suburban Eucalypts – by Uthpala Gunethilake
- 6 Dec 2021 The Rats Move In – by Karen A Johnson
- 6 Dec 2021 Fire There Is – by Searlait O’Neill
- 6 Dec 2021 Riverine – by Kavita Bedford
- 24 Nov 2021 How to Be a Better Mother – by Lisa Kenway
- 8 Nov 2021 The Funeral [Farewell Kenny-G] – by W<J>P Newnham
- 28 Oct 2021 6 Years, 6 Months and 24 Days Apart – by Saanjana Kapoor
- 8 Oct 2021 Good For It - by Lillian Telford
- 21 Sep 2021 Peace Body Pain Body - by Jarad Bruinstroop
- 9 Sep 2021 The Orchid - by Erica Wheadon
- 26 Aug 2021 Various Emilys/Gondals - by Josie/Jocelyn Deane
- 17 Aug 2021 Fluctuations in Landscape/Language/Lasagne - by Christine Howe
- 10 Aug 2021 Witchcraft, charming, &c. - by Eliza Henry-Jones
- 29 Jul 2021 Submerged - by Nova Weetman
- 13 Jul 2021 Pilgrimage to Frog Hollow - by Clare Murphy
- 2 Jul 2021 You Can’t Go Home Again - by Jenny Sinclair
- 24 Jun 2021 31.5°S, 159°E - by Keely Jobe
- 7 Jun 2021 Athai - by Lakshmi Narayanan
- 6 Jun 2021 Reality Check - by Jocelyn Prasad
- 4 Jun 2021 Principles of Permaculture - by Sam George-Allen
- 2 Jun 2021 Fury - by Andrew Harper, on Lucienne Rickard’s ‘Extinction Studies’
- 2 Jun 2021 How Do You Make Them Let You Belong? - by Erin Hortle
- 2 Jun 2021 Housing Climate: From Plastic to Concrete - by Miriam McGarry
- 1 Jun 2021 Thirst - by Rick Morton
- 1 Jun 2021 Endlings - by Harriet Riley
- 1 Jun 2021 Swift Parrot x Dark Mofo - by Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn
- 1 Jun 2021 Down to a Fine Art - by Elizabeth Flux
- 1 Jun 2021 Selling the Farm - by Nicole Gill
- 31 May 2021 For Sale - by Ruth Quibell
- 31 May 2021 Death in the Garden - by Katerina Cosgrove
- 26 May 2021 Reimagining the Mikvah - by Roz Bellamy
- 23 May 2021 hope thicks the air - by Viv Cutbush
- 23 May 2021 Stepping Back from The Edge: Re-imagining Queenstown - by Cameron Hindrum
- 23 May 2021 Friends of Charlene: The Angelic Engineering of Kylie Minogue - by Jonno Revanche
- 23 May 2021 The Enduring Hero of Matilda is Bruce Bogtrotter - by Sam van Zweden
- 23 May 2021 Horse People - by Hollen Singleton
- 23 May 2021 Willow Court Flight - by Sandra Potter
- 23 May 2021 The Portland Memorial Hall - by Rachel Edwards
- 23 May 2021 Boom and Bust in the Gaiety - by Gabrielle Lis
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Poetry
- 9 Apr 2024 If Movement Were a Language: Triptych – by Svetlana Sterlin
- 20 Mar 2024 Posture – by Jo Ward
- 20 Mar 2024 23 vignettes on the rental crisis – by Anna Jacobson
- 20 Mar 2024 Stanzas – by Jo Gardiner
- 20 Mar 2024 Parturition Chairs I-V – by Isabella G Mead
- 20 Mar 2024 Grandmother’s Limbs – by Svetlana Sterlin
- 20 Mar 2024 Friendly fire – by Tricia Dearborn
- 21 Feb 2024 Day 210 – by Brigid Coleridge
- 21 Feb 2024 Shedload – by Chris Andrews
- 21 Feb 2024 Improbable Acts of Proximity – by Shey Marque
- 24 Feb 2023 Sestina After B Carlisle – by Stuart Barnes
- 20 Feb 2023 Antarctica – by Andrew Sutherland
- 20 Feb 2023 The Girls Become – by John Foulcher
- 2 Mar 2022 Jobs for Women: Annunciate – by A Frances Johnson
- 2 Mar 2022 Heating and Cooling in the Time of Isolation – by Jessica L Wilkinson
- 2 Mar 2022 Self-portrait as Frida Kahlo – by Katherine Brabon
- 2 Mar 2022 Exoskeletons – by John Kinsella
- 2 Mar 2022 The Memory of Water - by Amy Crutchfield
- 7 Jun 2021 In My Father’s House - by Suneeta Peres da Costa
- 2 Jun 2021 Another Kind of Winter - by Anne Kellas
- 2 Jun 2021 Water on Rock, Wind in Trees - by Pete Hay
- 1 Jun 2021 Voyager I - by Sarah Day
- 1 Jun 2021 Thirty Pieces - by A Frances Johnson
- 1 Jun 2021 Maria-Mercè in the Palm Grove - by Eileen Chong
- 1 Jun 2021 gadhalumarra - by Yaaran Ellis
- 1 Jun 2021 Pink Sun - by Toby Fitch
- 1 Jun 2021 Beach Front - by Ellen van Neerven
- 31 May 2021 Walking a Forest Trail One Summer Afternoon - by Judith Beveridge
- 28 May 2021 Sunlight / Dear Mum - by Graham Akhurst
- 28 May 2021 Hippophobia - by Chloe Wilson
- 25 May 2021 Tend - by Jo Langdon
- 25 May 2021 Distorted Depiction - by Cassandra Atherton
- 23 May 2021 Ash in Sydney - by Jake Goetz
- 23 May 2021 On the Day You Launch - by Damen O’Brien
- 23 May 2021 What the Glass Holds - by Jill Jones
- 23 May 2021 Ekphrasis - by Belinda Rule
- 23 May 2021 I Protest - by Ouyang Yu
- 23 May 2021 Pulled Apart by Seahorses - by Gavin Yates
- 23 May 2021 Sonnet 29 - by Stuart Barnes
- 23 May 2021 Waiting Room - by Felicity Plunkett
- 23 May 2021 Analogue - by Stephen Edgar