Rhys McDonald is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator and is responsible for:
A more or less self taught artist working mainly in digital mediums he produces varied works both digitally and traditionally for a range of clients.
She rations her motels. She does not have as much money as she thought. The feeling of adundance, of oyster worlds and wide open roads, evaporated very quickly…
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Jennifer Mills has published short stories, poems and essays in journals including Overland, fourW, Hecate and the Griffith Review, and anthologies including Best Australian Short Stories 2007 (Black Inc). In 2007 she finished her first novel and prematurely quit her day job and lives by her wits (and hence out of her car). She is an unrepentant traveller, but can usually be found in Alice Springs.
You can read more of her work at www.jenjen.com.au
Listen to Jennifer read The Lap! Download The Lap, from 2SER’s Final Draft, 27 Nov 07.
Thursday night, he beats her. It happens often these days and she finds herself accepting it. A sound like the crack of a bull whip, the back of a hand receding, blurring…
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Christopher Clarke’s writing explores the ambiguities of human relationships, modes of reality and representation, dehumanisation through consumer culture, and urban decay. He is interested in literary experimentation, and for this reason prefers not to maintain stylistic consistency between pieces. It is through these themes that he finds inspiration in the words of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Michel Houellebecq and Ernest Hemingway.
Christopher’s work has appeared in the Monash student publication Lot’s Wife, and the Verge 2006 short fiction anthology. Presently, he is studying a Bachelor of Arts in English and Comparative Literature Studies, and hopes to one day make a living from words.
Monday morning, and Caesar gets stabbed right in the heart as he leaves the house to go to work. He pulls the knife from his thick chest…
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Patrick O’Duffy has done the usual wide variety of jobs that always appear in writers’ biographies. However, on reflection they all seem to boil down to book retail or office work, so forget it. Currently he works in educational publishing and is studying for an editing qualification.
He has done quite a substantial amount of freelance writing work over the last five years or so, but it’s mostly been niche genre work published in the US and read by a subcultural audience, which is why nobody has ever heard of him. He’s big in Wisconsin, honest.
Patrick was born in Queensland, lived most of his life in Brisbane, and moved to Melbourne 2 years ago because it seemed more fun and rewarding (he was right). He’s 36, very tall, and feels weird writing about himself in the third person.
I’ve made apple juice this time, about two litres.
I think I’m really starting to feel cleaner, clearer . . . not so hungry…
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Lucy Lawson grew up in the Western Districts. Her family lived in a series of houses with inadequate plumbing and her parents fed her mainly on oats. She spent several years at university before she learnt how to use the word ‘mimesis’ in a sentence. She then had to spend several years studying writing to learn to never ever do that.
Her short stories have been published in Verandah, Cardigan Press, Visible Ink and the Big Issue. People who know her well compare her to Hamlet relentlessly.
And I saw the vessel first. From my secret hiding place in the dunes that nobody knew about except my Pa, and only then because he followed me once to see where I went at night…
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Chris Womersley was born in 1968 and currently lives in Sydney with his wife and son. His fiction and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Granta New Writing 14, Best Australian Short Stories 2006, The Monthly and The Age. He won the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize in 2007 and his first novel, The Low Road, will be published by Scribe in September.
The alcohol scent was coming off a small white square. The whiff of jasmine situated itself just above the swab in the flow of the evaporating alcohol. It was stimulating and seedy…
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I call myself a Mexican-American Australian poet. I’m a military brat, born in Manila in 1965 to native New Mexicans and raised in Navy bases all over America. I wandered lost for many years before finally discovering Sydney at the age of 30. I’ve studied writing at too many universities to mention on three continents but never managed to get a degree. Itchy feet. I’ve now firmly (finally) planted roots, here in Aussie. I currently reside in Melbourne, where I am enrolled at the University of Melbourne. My writing has appeared in the James White Review, the Santa Fe Literary Review and at blithe.com.
I truly enjoy hearing from readers at the following email address: edmomoreno@gmail.com
Adrienne gently taps the column of ash onto her boot so that it falls in grey flakes towards the floor. My eyes follow the path of soft flurries as Adrienne begins to talk…
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After Melissa Cranenburgh finished her degree in journalism and diploma of arts in professional writing, she realised that fiction was definitely her preferred way to employ her writing skills. Until her novel is finished though, she settles for the honourable career of small press hack, writing and editing for just about every obscure magazine on the market. She can now talk with equal authority on the best dunny fittings in caravans as on the ideal glasses frame to suit a slightly rounded face.She was co-publisher of the 2004 short story collection Visible Ink, and has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald and Spinach7.
On days where she isn’t agonising over her novel, she divides her time between editing Bicycle Victoria’s magazine RideOn and lovingly muddying up her favourite two-wheeled beast.
Velvet felt warm fear tingle in her fingers. She had thought she would never see them again, but -
“The dragons are coming again.”
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The first thing Sarah Jansen remembers writing is a letter to the ABC to ask them to put Astro Boy back on. She has been arranging words ever since. Some of them have been published in zines, on Vibewire.net, and in the Sunshine Coast Writers’ Group’s 2001 competition publication, where she was highly commended in the poetry section. Her most successful artistic work to date is a series of stories she wrote when she was ten about an orphan named Emily-Jane.She has been a corporate writer and editor for the last five years, working for artsy types like This Is Not Art, La Boite Theatre Company, and HusqueTM.
Sarah grew up in Logan, Queensland and lives in Brisbane. You can stalk her at www.sarahjansen.com.
How can something so helpless make so much noise? Steve asked.
You’re right, David said. It isn’t polite…
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Emmett Stinson is a former winner of The Melbourne Age Short Story Competition and has also received the ArtsSA Creative Writing Award, a Lannan Poetry Fellowship (US), The Wagner Medal for Fiction (US) and two honourable mentions for the Academy of American Poet’s Phelam Poetry Prize, as well as serving as poet-in-residence for Vibewire Magazine.His work has appeared in Meanjin, The Melbourne Age, Pindelboyz, Sleepers Almanac and many others. Emmett is currently undertaking a PhD in Literary Studies at the University of Melbourne and serves as Fiction Editor of Wet Ink: The Magazine of New Writing.
