Josephine Rowe’s ‘Glisk’ appeared in Australian Book Review (Issue 383, August 2016).
Joe Rubbo’s ‘Trampoline’ appeared in The Near and The Far: New Stories from the Asia-Pacific Region (Scribe, 2016).
Beejay Silcox’s ‘Slut Trouble’ appeared in Australian Book Review (6 January 2017).
Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Sis Better’ appeared in the Saturday Paper (24 December 2016).
Notes on Contributors
THE EDITOR
Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and poet of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of the Indie and ABIA award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil (2014). Her most recent poetry collection, Carrying the World, won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry. Maxine is the author of the CBCA-winning picture book The Patchwork Bike (a collaboration with Melbourne artist Van T. Rudd), and her critically acclaimed memoir The Hate Race is being adapted for stage for Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre. She writes for the Saturday Paper.
THE AUTHORS
Dominic Amerena is a writer from Melbourne. His work has appeared in places like Australian Book Review, Overland, the Australian, the Lifted Brow, the Age, Meanjin and Kill Your Darlings. His work has been recognised in a number of awards, most recently the 2017 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize.
Madeline Bailey is a writer, born in Hobart in 1996. She won the 2016 Melbourne Young Writer’s Award, has been published in Voiceworks, performed at the Wheeler Centre, and is studying at the University of Melbourne.
Tony Birch is the author of Shadowboxing (2006), Father’s Day (2009), Blood (2011), The Promise (2014), Ghost River (2015), Broken Teeth (2016) and Common People (2017).
Verity Borthwick comes to writing from a background in geology. She spent four years looking at one crystal of salt for her PhD and started writing in her spare time so as not to go mad. She has been published in Island and the UTS Writers’ Anthology 2017.
Raelee Chapman grew up in the Riverina. Her short fiction has been published in Westerly, Southerly and Mascara Literary Review. In 2017 one of her published stories placed as a finalist in The Best Small Fictions (US). She currently resides in Singapore with her family.
Elizabeth Flux is a freelance writer and editor. She was the winner of the inaugural Feminartsy Fiction Prize and recently completed a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship. Her nonfiction work has been widely published, and includes essays on film, pop culture, feminism and identity.
Cassie Hamer is a Sydney-based writer whose short works have been published by Mascara Literary Review, Margaret River Press and Writer’s Edit. She has been shortlisted and placed in a number of writing competitions, and in 2017 won the Shoalhaven Literary Award.
John Kinsella has published six volumes of short stories, most recently Old Growth (Transit Lounge, 2017). He is Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University.
Julie Koh is the author of Capital Misfits and Portable Curiosities, which was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award and a NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Her fiction has appeared in The Best Australian Stories (2014–2016) and Best Australian Comedy Writing. She is a 2017 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist and a founding member of Kanganoulipo.
Melissa Lucashenko is a multi-award-winning Goorie novelist and essayist. Her work is about a better Australia for all.
Myfanwy McDonald is a Melbourne-based writer of fiction. Her stories have been published in the Big Issue, Going Down Swinging and Tincture. ‘Numb’ was shortlisted for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. myfanwy-mcdonald.squarespace.com
Jennifer Mills is the author of the novels Gone and The Diamond Anchor and the short story collection The Rest Is Weight. Her next novel, Dyschronia, will be published by Picador in February 2018.
Joshua Mostafa is a doctoral candidate at the Writing and Society Centre, Western Sydney University. His creative practice explores the interstices of prose and formal poetry, narrative and the lyric, and of the written and the spoken word. He lives in the Blue Mountains.
Ryan O’Neill is a short story writer. His latest book, Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers, was shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Award. He is a founding member of the Australian experimental writing group Kanganoulipo.
David Oberg is a Brisbane-based writer whose work has been published in the Lifted Brow.
Allee Richards is a playwright and fiction writer from Melbourne. Her stories have been published in the Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings and Voiceworks.
Mirandi Riwoe’s debut novel is She Be Damned (Pantera Press, Legend Press) and her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella competition. Her work has appeared in Review of Australian Fiction, Rex, Peril and Shibboleth and Other Stories. Mirandi has a PhD in creative writing and literary studies.
Josephine Rowe is the author of two story collections and a novel, A Loving, Faithful Animal (UQP, 2016). She holds fellowships from the Wallace Stegner program at Stanford University and the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She currently lives in Tasmania.
Joe Rubbo lives in Melbourne, where he works as a full-time bookseller. He is a 2015 WrICE fellow.
Beejay Silcox has been kicked in the head by a gorilla, blessed by a voodoo priest, and stuck in quicksand; she eloped to Las Vegas, and drove to Timbuktu in a car held together with a brastrap. She recently completed her MFA, and works as a writer and literary critic.
Ellen van Neerven is the award-winning author of Heat and Light (UQP, 2014) and Comfort Food (UQP, 2016).
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