Conversation After Dark (Poetry)
Describe me, She says, In three words.
‘all it took was a spark’ / ‘modern day monster’ (Prose)
“It was the secrets of the heaven and Earth that I desired to learn”.
#SaveUWAP: WA Universities and Internationalism
This week, it was announced by UWA’S Deputy Vice Chancellor Tayyeb Shah that UWA Publishing (UWAP) will be closed, beginning this month. Since the announcement, Facebook groups protesting the shut-down…
#MeToo Review: Stories from the Australian movement
If what you know of the #MeToo movement is mainly stories from white Hollywood celebrities, you’re not alone. What most people don’t know, is that it was started by Tarana…
What’s a Mid Years, Anyway?
One morning in June I was sitting on a balcony in Geordie Bay admiring the Rotto sunrise. The sun had just begun to crest majestically over the lighthouse when I…
Remembering the Destroyed Past: Everything Flows Review
Content Warning: Genocide, Holodomor, Famine, Stalinism Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman is a 1964 historiographical fiction about the wake left behind after Stalinism. The novel follows Ivan Grigoryevich, released from…
The Most Problematic Tropes in Young Adult Literature
*warning – spoilers ahead* “Okay? Okay.” – Augustus and Hazel, The Fault in our Stars “Remember we’re madly in love, so it’s alright to kiss me anytime you feel like…
Truth through Mediation: Reading Fiction with Dickinson and Hegel
The great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson once wrote that one should “Tell the truth but tell it slant,” an initially deceiving statement that nonetheless has a crucial resonance…
The Short Story: Arriving in Perth
Getting out of that cushioned chair was like easing out of five hours of inertia; the old fellow next door had begun rising up from a dream, seven-eighths submerged, with…