Editorial

Issue 6 | Autumn 2024

Issue 6 continues our proud tradition of publishing unique, fresh, relevant voices.

In fiction, these voices are potently female: in an excerpt from her upcoming novel, Double Happiness, Rochelle Siemienowicz explores the manifest pleasures and pitfalls of polyamory; Zoe Karpin, in her short story ‘The Removalist’, shows a young migrant woman trying to embrace her feminist ideals, questing intelligence and body’s sensuality all at once; while Leone Gabrielle, in her darkly lyrical avant-garde piece ‘Safe House’, depicts her heroine’s struggle to vanquish a particularly female experience of fear.

Feature

INTERVIEW

Is there any Australian literature of the past that’s grabbed you?

No, we were encouraged to recite Banjo Patterson’s, The Man from Snowy River. pa-pum pa-pum pa-pum. I didn’t know what a snowy river was, I hadn’t seen a brumby, and I certainly didn’t know what a stock whip was or what a colt was, but we had to recite it and we were assessed on it. 

Peter Lyssiotis