Magazine

Such a lazy conspiratorial bent towards Australian publishing camouflages what I and many of my colleagues believe is an important debate we should be having about barriers to entry and supporting local writing.

Fourteen authors tackle the question of literature’s big disrupter. Featuring Ellena Savage, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Steve MinOn and more.

Chase love through the past, present and future in ‘Devilled Eggs at the End of the World’.

Read the winning story ‘Devilled Eggs at the End of the World’ by Rosie Forrest—a journey through time that explores what matters most in the giant scheme of things.

Meet the ten stories in contention.

An interview with legendary editor Hilary McPhee.

An interview with Cannon author Lee Lai.

This isn’t the Orwell classic you thought you knew. Read an interview with Elizabeth Brennan and James Jackson, the script writers behind Bloomshed’s fast and feral reimagining of the classic political fable.

It took Dunham eight-and-a-half years to write her follow-up—and it shows. With the benefit of hindsight and time away from the bright spotlight that swallowed Dunham during her Girls years, she writes about that time in her life with a clarity, self-awareness and bittersweet wit.

Motherhood is a haunted house in this wildly original short story.

The local park is a site of both naivety and menace for one young mother.

Frankness comes before fiction in Debra Adelaide’s homage to her late friend in When I’m Sixty-Four.