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Three bunyips
MY FIRST ENCOUNTER with a bunyip was in a School Paper, the monthly supplement to the Victorian School Readers:...
The myth of Charlie McMahon
THERE’S A MAN and a musician who’s been behind the scenes and across this country for many a year....
Told in the bush
'THAT'S A GENUINELY rare book you have there,' said the second-hand book dealer. 'I've never seen it before.''It came...
The ghost river
When he was about to begin the river story Moses would stamp at the ground with the heel of his boot and call out to the birds in the trees, 'listen hard now'. He'd clap his hands together a couple of times, make a clicking noise with his tongue and the birds would lift off from the trees in the distance and move a little closer, to the wattles lining the riverbank. 'Back in the old time, before the humans,' he would begin, 'this girl, the river, she didn't stop her life where she does now, at the mouth at bay there. There is no bay in the time I'm talking with.'
Stories to live by
OVER the past few years the body politic in Australia has had an exceptionally high temperature. If it were...
Interview with
Chris Womersley
Having read your online bio, I have to ask: do you really have trained monkeys? How much do you...
Interview with
Favel Parrett
Your story 'No Man is an Island' is strikingly short – in fact, it's the shortest story in The...
Interview with
Amy Espeseth
You immigrated to Australia in the late 1990's from rural Wisconsin. Your story in Griffith REVIEW 34: The Annual...
Interview with
Craig Cliff
You've travelled quite a bit – you seem to be an adventurer of the world, but also an explorer...
Interview with
Nicolas Low
In addition to being a writer, you're an installation artist, among other things. Do you think writing and art...
Interview with
Romy Ash
As we're conducting this interview via email, could describe your current environment?I am writing in my studio, which is...
Interview with
Rachael S Morgan
This year you won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for literature with your story 'Tryst' – a vivid tale about...
