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Melanie Cheng is a Melbourne-based writer and practising GP. ‘Muse’, published in Griffith Review 54: Earthly Delights, is part...

By Lauren Mitchell

Graham Lang is an artist and writer who has published three novels: Clouds Like Black Dogs (Jonathan Ball Publishers,...

By Lauren Mitchell

Daniel Jenkins grew up in New South Wales. He has spent most of the past ten years living in...

By Lauren Mitchell

Suzanne McCourt’s first novel The Lost Child (Text, 2014) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2015. Her novella ‘The...

By Lauren Mitchell

Based in Adelaide, Stephen Orr has published several novels, and has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and...

By Lauren Mitchell

THE AMERICAN WRITER on the festival circuit had refined his message into this decade’s preferred mode of communication: a...

By Julianne Schultz

I’VE NEGLECTED HER. Her ceilings are soft with cobwebs. Her garden is choked with weeds. Her fence leans, like buckteeth,...

By Melanie Cheng

SAUL TURNS OFF the bitumen onto the dirt road and drives due west. The ute rattles along over the...

By Graham Lang

RACHEL THERE WAS A cement wall separating the compound from the desert. The wall was three metres high. Purple wildflowers grew...

HE INSISTS ON a hotel room. You want him to stay with your family – you, Graeme and daughters, Sal...

By Suzanne McCourt

WILLIAM DUTTON WAS still walking towards school. Two decades after he’d finished, still. Carrying his guitar, head down, mumbling...

By Stephen Orr

FOREWORDBy Penny HuestonCORY TAYLOR, WHO passed away in July, was a joy to work with. Over the years I...