Westerly Issue 64.1

With writing and ideas from Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Brenda Saunders, Elleke Boehmer, Ouyang Yu, Sarah Holland-Batt, and many more.

Featuring an impressive list of writers,Westerly issue 64.1 includes special features from Red Room Poetry’s New Shoots WA project, a collection of ecologically focused essays, and Westerly‘s third crop of emerging writers from the 2018 Writers Development Program.

[one_half]Peter D. Mathews[/one_half][one_half_last]Boochani Bound: A Promethean Meditation on Refugee Detention Centres[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ambelin Kwaymullina[/one_half][one_half_last]Respect, relationships, renewal: Aboriginal perspectives on the worlds of tomorrow[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Andrew Lynch[/one_half][one_half_last]The Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Tony Hughes-d’Aeth[/one_half][one_half_last]The Settler Colonial Farm Novel in Australia[/one_half_last]

Are You In Or Out?

[one_half]Barbara Holloway[/one_half][one_half_last]Writing on the Wind, Looking at the Local[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Robyn Ferrell[/one_half][one_half_last]Quairading 1960[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jennifer Rutherford[/one_half][one_half_last]Homeward Flight[/one_half_last]

Fiction

[one_half]Elleke Boehmer[/one_half][one_half_last]Two Excerpts from The Shouting in the Dark & other southern writing[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Simone Lazaroo[/one_half][one_half_last]Night Shifting[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Donna Mazza[/one_half][one_half_last]The True Tail™[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Siang Lu[/one_half][one_half_last]The Abortionist[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Chelinay Gates[/one_half][one_half_last]A Sorry Business[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Mel Hall[/one_half][one_half_last]The Bird in the Door[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Julie Twohig[/one_half][one_half_last]Flight Path[/one_half_last]

Creative Non-Fiction

[one_half]Brooke Collins-Gearing[/one_half][one_half_last]Listening to the Stories Woven Around Us[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ouyang Yu[/one_half][one_half_last]Meditation on the Pointlessness of Poetry[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rosemary Stevens[/one_half][one_half_last]A Late Flowering[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Joan Fleming[/one_half][one_half_last]Notes Toward a Theory of Making[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Liana Skrzypczak[/one_half][one_half_last]The Whiter the Socks[/one_half_last]

New Shoots WA (Red Room Poetry)

[one_half]Nandi Chinna[/one_half][one_half_last]Anatomy of a Lignotuber[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Daniel Hansen[/one_half][one_half_last]Koolark—Home[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Luke Sweedman[/one_half][one_half_last]Ravensthorpe[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Reneé Pettitt-Schipp[/one_half][one_half_last]Jarrah (buying the block)[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Scott-Patrick Mitchell[/one_half][one_half_last]Red Flowering Gum[/one_half_last]

Poetry

[one_half]Sarah Holland-Batt[/one_half][one_half_last]Alaska[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Cassie Lynch[/one_half][one_half_last]Five Haiku[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Melinda Smith[/one_half][one_half_last]The Space Inside His Fist[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Christopher Konrad[/one_half][one_half_last]Gwen Harwood’s Nightfall[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Heather Taylor-Johnson[/one_half][one_half_last]Trees[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Shey Marque[/one_half][one_half_last]Lost Wax[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Brett Dionysius[/one_half][one_half_last]On the Death of Astronaut John Young[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Chris Wallace-Crabbe[/one_half][one_half_last]Trousers[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Lola McDowell nee Kickett[/one_half][one_half_last]We are[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Anne Poelina[/one_half][one_half_last]Balginjirr, ‘A Special Place on our Home River Country’![/one_half_last]
[one_half]Brenda Saunders[/one_half][one_half_last]Singing the Land[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Shari Kocher[/one_half][one_half_last]One Infinity[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Sandra Renew[/one_half][one_half_last]making something into nothing[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kathryn Fry[/one_half][one_half_last]The Earth Will Outshine Us[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Josephine Clarke[/one_half][one_half_last]van Gogh’s Digger in a Potato Field[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Anne Elvey[/one_half][one_half_last]Bracing Ground[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Stuart Crowe[/one_half][one_half_last]Melaleuca Suite[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jill Jones[/one_half][one_half_last]This Path Is Our Season Tonight[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Joyce Parkes[/one_half][one_half_last]Premise, Promise[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rose van Son[/one_half][one_half_last]No need to always buy[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rose Lucas[/one_half][one_half_last]Outback Bowser, 1970[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Veronica Lake[/one_half][one_half_last]Cockburn Power Station[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Angela Gardner[/one_half][one_half_last]Look Away[/one_half_last]

Writers Development Program

[one_half]Kyle Orton[/one_half][one_half_last]at the hospice[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kyle Orton[/one_half][one_half_last]axe handle[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Nicole David[/one_half][one_half_last]Winning Sadie[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Andrew Sutherland[/one_half][one_half_last]August Instructional[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Andrew Sutherland[/one_half][one_half_last]as if you were a pharaoh[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Michelle Symes[/one_half][one_half_last]There is a Wonderful Game[/one_half_last]