Indigo Erez is a Year 11 student at McKinnon Secondary College and is a budding writer, having penned 2 novels which she hopes will be published. She seeks her inspiration from her own experiences, from the world around her and her grandfather who is a Holocaust survivor and a published author. Indigo is author of As Sparks…
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* Keren Heenan has won a number of Australian short story awards and placed 2nd in the Fish Prize 2015. She has been published in Australian journals and anthologies, including: Overland, Island, Wet Ink, AWAW 2010, 2011, 2015, in Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual (UK) 2014 and the Fish Anthology (Ire.) 2015. Rachel Smith delights in…
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notJack hearts the following wonder folk: Prize Advisory Panel Paul Kane Helen Garner Ailsa Piper Robyn Davidson Rod Moss Christopher Cordner Penny Hueston Barry Hill Drusilla Modjeska Henry Rosenbloom Martin Flanagan Alex Miller Maria Tumarkin…
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At age seven, after her parents’ marriage had broken down, Anne Manne travelled with her mother and sisters to the Central Victorian countryside to begin a new life. This is the story of what she now learned. Virginia Woolf believed that the rhythms of ordinary life are punctuated by “moments of being” where meaning,…
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This beautifully designed pamphlet contains twenty-three poems selected from Paul Kane’s three previous books: The Farther Shore (1990), Drowned Lands (2000) and Work Life (2007). It is subtitled “Australian Poems” and chooses those poems from the books directly relevant to Australia, though it does omit two of an Australian suite from the first book. This immediately arouses, of course, a…
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How do we imagine our cities and our lives? How do we remember them? How are we shaped by the cities where we live? How do we shape the places where we live? Playing on the double meaning of inner, editor Drusilla Modjeska draws together essays and stories, poems and remembrances, anecdotes and fragments by…
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‘I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.’ So begins Robyn Davidson’s perilous journey through some of the harshest spaces of the world. A camel-trek from the heart of Australia, across 17,000 miles of hostile desert, to the sea…
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