Journal
Articles
Contending with a blank page
TIM WINTON IS arguably Australia’s most widely read contemporary novelist. His books have been translated into eighteen languages, adapted...
High school sewing
Wincey – but really – wincey, a baby word from a nursery rhyme is what was doled out by...
The artlessness of internal travel
Going away enforced where I was.There was no here without there.The Canning River fed Bull Creekovershadowed by paperbarkswith its...
Deep: Indian Ocean view from the Blue Duck Café, Cottesloe
The sea rolls flat, pleasant and blue under a warm sun. In the distance, ships glide easy toward the...
Droughtbreaker
No sooner resolved neverto write another linethe habit of resolutionbeing so strong,the air turned suddenlysweet outside her window –the...
Land, glorious land
IN THE BEGINNING it is about land: enjoying, aggregating, owning, using, preserving, developing and selling land. Land is, and always...
On ‘Carpentaria’, by Alexis Wright
Wright’s reflections on her own creative process show that in working on Carpentaria, she was keenly aware of the need to invent a way of writing that could embody both the negative effects of colonialism and her proud Aboriginal heritage.
Former glory
NOBODY PUT A ‘for sale’ sign in front of the only good building in town. Whoever had it on...
Whale station
I SPIED THE bull turning circles an hour out from Yellow Patch. I was alone on the Looma, the...
1919
1I WATCHED FROM our front window as a cart led by two sweating horses carried five hessian sacks, a...
When blossoms fall
Today in flower, tomorrow scattered by the wind – Such is our blossom life. How can we think its...
Refuge
Voices from a region of extraction
Miner Old Tin Lizzie was the first car in Kookynie ---– the fella owed me money and wanted me to take it in payment, the...
