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Foundations - by Michael Blake
Scottsdale, Tasmania
There used to be trees here, and there will be trees here again.
 But for now there is a paddock, desiccated foot-high grass spitting pollen, seed-heads nodding in the peak-summer breeze...
Blackbird - by Magdalena Lane
Sorell, Tasmania
A story inspired by women’s stories and celebrates the role of the community hall as 
a vital and democratic site that supports the continued sharing of traditional knowledge …
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Arts Features
- 12 June 2024 We Were Here – by Sarah Firth
- 2 Apr 2024 The perfect human – by Niki Bañados
- 11 Dec 2023 The Last Ever Comic to be Published in a Literary Magazine…Ever!!
- 2 June 2021 Fury - by Andrew Harper, on Lucienne Rickard’s ‘Extinction Studies’
- 2 June 2021 Julie Gough: Tense Past
- 1 June 2021 Tiefenzeit - by Tricky Walsh
- 1 June 2021 Islands and Ships - by Joshua Santospirito
- 1 June 2021 The Intimacy of Daily Life: The News is the Weather - by Rosie Flanagan and Miriam McGarry
- 1 June 2021 Fragments of Place - by Andrew Harper
- 1 June 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
- 23 May 2021 Stepping Back from The Edge: Re-imagining Queenstown - by Cameron Hindrum
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Fiction
- 20 July 2026 Venus flytrap – by Sagar Nair
- 26 June 2026 Oval – by Matthew Green
- 26 June 2026 You can make the whole trip that way – by Brooke Dunnell
- 26 June 2026 Unconfirmed – by Emma Ashmere
- 21 May 2026 The hold down – by Jenni Mazaraki
- 3 Mar 2026 That was where we’ll meet – by Kyla St Jaye
- 17 Dec 2025 Jack and the Argonauts – by Grace Heathcote
- 5 Dec 2025 Irukandji Death Syndrome – by Tabitha Laffernis
- 4 Nov 2025 Hellsite – by Jane O’Sullivan
- 4 Nov 2025 La Moustache – by Howard McKenzie-Murray
- 23 Sept 2025 333532 – by Ouyang Yu
- 28 Aug 2025 The humming – by Meisha Simpson
- 6 Aug 2025 The colour of perception – by Tony Barrett
- 6 Aug 2025 Fish inside a birdcage – by Samuel O'Neil Hamad
- 6 Aug 2025 The sobber – by Oliver Johns
- 6 Aug 2025 Gravity – by Morgan Kelly
- 6 Aug 2025 Once inside – by Maddie Goss
- 6 Aug 2025 Parasites make red pearls – by Lucy Haughton
- 6 Aug 2025 Flotsam on the drift – by Lonnie Dalton
- 17 July 2025 Why Benjamin Stork broke the ribbit glass – by Angus Macdonald
- 14 July 2025 Ishbel – by Claire Aman
- 7 July 2025 New purpose – by Alex Bennetts
- 25 June 2025 Improving the area – by Keith Goh Johnson
- 15 May 2025 Good for nothing – by Winnie Dunn
- 5 Mar 2025 Myer is Our Store – by Gillian Hagenus
- 10 Jan 2025 Generation optimisation – by EL Weber
- 4 Dec 2024 Afterbirth – by Payton Hogan
- 6 Nov 2024 The miracle – by Nadia Mahjouri
- 8 Oct 2024 Chrysalis – by Lachlan Plain
- 11 Sept 2024 The mystery of the lost hours – by Sue Brennan
- 4 Sept 2024 Masters – by Andrei Seleznev
- 7 Aug 2024 Paan – by Josefina Huq
- 18 July 2024 A major theft – by Emma Rosetta
- 17 July 2024 Devotion – by RT Wenzel
- 10 July 2024 He is the candle – by Lucy Norton
- 10 July 2024 These are no clear directions – by Lars Rogers
- 3 July 2024 Bound – by Liz Evans
- 26 June 2024 Prelude to a flight – by Joel Keith
- 30 May 2024 Dear life – by Susan Francis
- 27 May 2024 Refuse – by Hei Gou
- 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 Sept 2023 Nursery – by Nicola Redhouse
- 14 Sept 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 July 2023 The River Path – by Tadhg Muller
- 6 June 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 Sept 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 June 2022 No Tomorrow – by Catherine Deery
- 20 June 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 Sept 2021 Captain Boner - by Alex Cothren
- 2 Sept 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 July 2021 A Man Alone - by Mark O’Flynn
- 13 July 2021 Boxing Day - by Fiona Robertson
- 2 July 2021 Severe Weather Warning - by Miriam Webster
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Nonfiction
- 20 July 2026 To let my outline thin – by Bridget Webster
- 16 July 2026 The pool as public luxury - by Miriam Jones
- 16 July 2026 Savings - by Rachel Leary
- 21 May 2026 Emerald City – by Henry Chase Richards
- 21 May 2026 Black Grandma – by Emma-Lee Maher
- 12 Mar 2026 The moss garden method – by Gina Ward
- 3 Mar 2026 Between snow and slogans - by Ramak Bamzar
- 22 Jan 2026 Heartbreakful – by Siobhan Kavanagh
- 16 Dec 2025 The aesthetics of endless seeking – by Deniz Yildiz
- 25 Nov 2025 Habitat – by Rosalee Kiely
- 25 Nov 2025 Menura novaehollandiae – by Frankey Chung-Kok-Lun
- 14 Nov 2025 A new literature of exhaustion: David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ – by Adam Ouston
- 14 Nov 2025 Cute poem – by Toby Fitch
- 21 Oct 2025 Life Span – by Fiona Reilly
- 10 Sept 2025 Outer Banks – by Kathleen Williams
- 28 Aug 2025 Extinctions – by Dani Netherclift
- 22 Aug 2025 Cold coffee – by Aboubakr Daqiq
- 17 July 2025 The more you are going home – by Stephen Orr
- 25 June 2025 Inaugural visit: snapshots – by Lesh Karan
- 2 June 2025 a natural sort of being – by Miriam Jones
- 3 Apr 2025 Beasting – by Heather Taylor-Johnson
- 28 Jan 2025 ‘Called to beauty’ – an interview with Elizabeth Gilbert
- 20 Jan 2025 Grass, willow, skin – by Ben Walter
- 10 Jan 2025 Bunya: Axis limen – by Justin Russell
- 11 Dec 2024 The water’s edge – by Craig White
- 22 Nov 2024 Brackish tongue – by Roanna McClelland
- 19 Nov 2024 The only fish – by Ben Walter
- 31 Oct 2024 The ballet school – by Helena Gjone
- 25 Sept 2024 Great flying soar and in command – by Lily Chan
- 19 Sept 2024 Dhanggal Bawagal: Mussel Sisters – by Michelle Vlatkovic
- 29 Aug 2024 The libraries we must enter, the songs we will sing – by Jamil Badi
- 22 Aug 2024 Girl/Monster – by Simmone Howell
- 14 Aug 2024 Words inside words – by Ouyang Yu
- 24 July 2024 Snakes in the valleys, in their hair – by Ben Walter
- 17 July 2024 Wave and blue – by Beth Kearney
- 26 June 2024 Conversation IV: Permission to witness – by Libby King
- 12 June 2024 Rain Rain – by Indigo Bailey
- 12 June 2024 Clothing the whiteness – by Isabella Wang
- 12 June 2024 The other hand – by Carly Stone
- 12 June 2024 Collection of collections – by Meredith Jelbart
- 12 June 2024 We Were Here – by Sarah Firth
- 30 May 2024 Thrift – by Catherine Zhou
- 27 May 2024 Bog bodies: Iron Age dreamland – by Lucinda Lagos
- 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 Sept 2023 Sharehouse Archaeology – by Ale Prunotto
- 14 Sept 2023 In the River – by Searlait O’Neill
- 16 Aug 2023 Hawksbill – by Grace Heathcote
- 11 Aug 2023 Woonoongoora – by Caroline Gardam
- 22 June 2023 Objects of Illness/Recovery – by Anna Jacobson and Katerina Bryant
- 6 June 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 Sept 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 July 2022 Living Poets – by Jessica Lim
- 25 July 2022 An Open Space – by Luke Johnson
- 14 July 2022 A Shadow From Country – by Naomi Parry
- 14 July 2022 The Sound of Light – by Verity Borthwick
- 14 July 2022 If You Join the Circle, You Must Dance – by Katerina Cosgrove
- 14 July 2022 Hospitality – by Nicole Melanson
- 8 June 2022 The Ocean Sounds Like a Motorway – by Melissa Fagan
- 8 June 2022 The Backyard Project: Notes from Stolen Land – by Lia Hills
- 8 June 2022 Schrödinger’s Butterflies – by Dave Witty
- 8 June 2022 Feel the Quiet – by Zohra Aly
- 8 June 2022 And a Moth Flew Out – by Helena Kadmos
- 8 June 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
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Poetry
- 20 July 2026 Monday, period 2 – by Madison Hovey
- 20 July 2026 Salon assistant – by Sophia Krause
- 16 July 2026 Yes, ghosts – by John Britten
- 16 July 2026 The referee – by Alex Sutcliffe
- 21 May 2026 Fortune-Cookie-Industrial Complex – by Erica Williams
- 27 Apr 2026 taking care of business – by Brian Obiri-Asare
- 27 Apr 2026 Conversing with broken things – by Lesh Karan
- 27 Apr 2026 Ahead of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, e-scooters trap a car – by Isabella G Mead
- 27 Apr 2026 night heart – by Claire Gaskin
- 27 Apr 2026 Ichthyophobe – by Megan Cartwright
- 12 Mar 2026 Intraocular – by Geoff Page
- 25 Feb 2026 Augury: sea surface temperature charts – by Georgina Woods
- 25 Feb 2026 Cold Water Swimming in Lyme Regis – by Audrey Molloy
- 25 Feb 2026 My Kaathii Sister – by Julie Janson
- 22 Jan 2026 The midnight shift – by Jena Woodhouse
- 17 Dec 2025 Basement – by Damen O’Brien
- 16 Dec 2025 Dear neighbours, – by Jane Gibian
- 5 Dec 2025 Honeymoon – by Ella Jeffery
- 21 Oct 2025 Game, Set, Match – by Maria Takolander and David McCooey
- 2 Oct 2025 Is this devotion? – by Rae White
- 1 Oct 2025 (five monostiches) – by Beth Spencer
- 23 Sept 2025 Waterborne – by Timothy Neale
- 10 Sept 2025 Alhambra – by Omar Musa
- 22 Aug 2025 If Anne Carson had grown up on a cattle station in the Northern Territory – by Johanna Bell
- 8 July 2025 Anglerfish – by Siobhan Hodge
- 16 June 2025 My fisherman – by Scott-Patrick Mitchell
- 16 June 2025 Rescue – by Toby Davidson
- 2 June 2025 with flowers – by Alexander Bennetts
- 15 May 2025 An Island of Dogs – by Ronald Araña Atilano
- 3 Apr 2025 Movable – by David Ishaya Osu
- 20 Mar 2025 The Burial Feathers – by Yasmin Smith
- 20 Mar 2025 Lateral ambling gait – by Emilie Collyer
- 20 Mar 2025 and – by Helen Jarvis
- 11 Mar 2025 Pedder Galaxias Pantoum – by Toby Fitch
- 27 Feb 2025 Night Movements – by Daniel Ray
- 19 Feb 2025 Chinese Funerals as Theatre – by Xin Lee
- 5 Feb 2025 Love Poem – by Luoyang Chen
- 18 Dec 2024 Washing my mother’s hair – by Helen Jarvis
- 27 Nov 2024 Friesland Farm under red clouds – by Cameron Lowe
- 13 Nov 2024 Dementia – by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
- 31 Oct 2024 Visitor Ghazal – by Megan Cartwright
- 14 Oct 2024 1. – by Bobby K
- 22 Aug 2024 The Ascension on a MacBook Air – by Sam Morley
- 14 Aug 2024 The Edit / An Edit – by Michael Farrell
- 7 Aug 2024 Dysesthesia – by Shey Marque
- 24 July 2024 Dinner Call – by Anders Villani
- 3 July 2024 ‘Helen’ by Euripides – by Andrew Sutherland
- 21 June 2024 white nonsense – by Alice Allan
- 19 June 2024 Telegram – by Natalie Susak
- 19 June 2024 new year’s day – by Mitch Cave
- 19 June 2024 Advice and Warnings – by Jill Jones
- 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 June 2021 In My Father’s House - by Suneeta Peres da Costa
- 2 June 2021 Another Kind of Winter - by Anne Kellas
- 2 June 2021 Water on Rock, Wind in Trees - by Pete Hay
- 1 June 2021 Voyager I - by Sarah Day
- 1 June 2021 Thirty Pieces - by A Frances Johnson
- 1 June 2021 Maria-Mercè in the Palm Grove - by Eileen Chong
- 1 June 2021 gadhalumarra - by Yaaran Ellis
- 1 June 2021 Pink Sun - by Toby Fitch
- 1 June 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