Westerly Issue 63.1

With writing, translations and ideas from: Chris Mansell, Mohammed Massoud Morsi, Marcelle Freiman, Paul Collis, Julia Prendergast, Stuart Barnes, Rachael Mead, Matt Robinson, Kate Middleton, Toby Davidson, Natalie Harkin, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Art Writing Prize, and many more.

Featuring over 50 international and Australian writers, Westerly 63.1 includes special features from The Sun Yat-sen International Residency, a publication exchange with The Indian Quarterly, and the 2017 Westerly’s Writers’ Development Program.

[one_half]Fan Dai[/one_half][one_half_last]Terrace Talk[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Mandy Coe[/one_half][one_half_last]Duoyishu, Bada, Tiger’s Mouth[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Luis H. Francia[/one_half][one_half_last]Do Not Ask a Mountain for Its Passport[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Priya Sarukkai Chabria[/one_half][one_half_last]Mutations 1[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jonathan Morley[/one_half][one_half_last]Excerpt from ‘The New China’[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kristina Hočevar[/one_half][one_half_last]Excerpt from ‘exercising the edge’[/one_half_last]

Special Feature: The Indian Quarterly

[one_half]Ranjani Murali[/one_half][one_half_last]Mother TV: Posthumous Greeting for My Beloved Disbelievers, Played on Loop[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Nitoo Das[/one_half][one_half_last]from a Meghalaya Travelogue[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Tsering Wangmo Dhompa[/one_half][one_half_last]Before Sunrise[/one_half_last]

Poetry

[one_half]Philip Neilsen[/one_half][one_half_last]Westerly Wind[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Antonia Pont[/one_half][one_half_last]Inoculation[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ross Jackson[/one_half][one_half_last]Elizabeth Quay approaching[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Paul Collis[/one_half][one_half_last]Lean Streets[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Paul Collis[/one_half][one_half_last]Anakiss[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Natalie Harkin[/one_half][one_half_last]Blood-Sonnet Chronicles[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Stuart Barnes[/one_half][one_half_last]from Binary Tree Poems[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Marcelle Freiman[/one_half][one_half_last]Still[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Josephine Clarke[/one_half][one_half_last]son[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jane Monson[/one_half][one_half_last]The Secret Life of Mud[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Shey Marque[/one_half][one_half_last]After the Late Night Joys[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Chris Mansell[/one_half][one_half_last]Night Fox[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Toby Davidson[/one_half][one_half_last]East[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Donna Mazza[/one_half][one_half_last]Blue Tongue[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Stu Hatton[/one_half][one_half_last]a final room[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rachael Petridis[/one_half][one_half_last]Night Beach[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kristin Henry[/one_half][one_half_last]The Neuroscience of Old Love[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Matt Robinson[/one_half][one_half_last]Against the Wedding Invitation Ampersand[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Linda Bradbury[/one_half][one_half_last]somebody called this place ‘Snake Hill’[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Mags Webster[/one_half][one_half_last]Hot milk[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kate Middleton[/one_half][one_half_last]Ritual Exchange[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Anna Ryan-Punch[/one_half][one_half_last]No Money[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Graeme Miles[/one_half][one_half_last]Ash and salt[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Laurie Smith[/one_half][one_half_last]Bokhara Tea[/one_half_last]

Fiction

[one_half]David Mohan[/one_half][one_half_last]Durer’s Hare[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Alison Martin[/one_half][one_half_last]Star Atlas[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Julia Prendergast[/one_half][one_half_last]Mercy[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rachael Mead[/one_half][one_half_last]The Weight of Things[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Beejay Silcox[/one_half][one_half_last]Bushfire Moon[/one_half_last]

Creative Non-Fiction

[one_half]Mohammed Massoud Morsi[/one_half][one_half_last]Toqburneh[/one_half_last]
[one_half]David Carlin[/one_half][one_half_last]Love Lane (the work of writing)[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Samantha Trayhurn[/one_half][one_half_last]Green Shadows: Venturing into Gerald Murnane’s Plains[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Dougie Nelson[/one_half][one_half_last]Sovereign Peoples, Sovereign Stories: Welcomes and Acknowledgements of Country in Aboriginal Worldviews[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Claire G. Coleman[/one_half][one_half_last]The Risks of Question Time: Not So Black and White[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Marie O’Rourke[/one_half][one_half_last]Suturing[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Matthew Hooton[/one_half][one_half_last]Thirteen Monkeys and an Ageing Emu Run Amok through the Ruins of Oracle City[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Suvi Mahonen[/one_half][one_half_last]Coming Home[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Amanda Gardiner[/one_half][one_half_last]Through pools of light to get to the dark—reflections on Batavia: Giving Voice to the Voiceless[/one_half_last]

Essays

[one_half]Kathryn Hummel[/one_half][one_half_last]Outing the Unwritten: reflections on academia and the field in Bangladesh[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Leonard M. Collard[/one_half][one_half_last]Katitjin Ngulluckiny Boodjera: Kura, Yeye Mila Boorda[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Dan Disney[/one_half][one_half_last]Elemental Affect, Computational Forms: Jordie Albiston’s Euclid’s dog[/one_half_last]

Review

[one_half]Brenda Saunders[/one_half][one_half_last]Review of False Claims of Colonial Thieves[/one_half_last]

Writers Development Program

[one_half]Maddie Godfrey[/one_half][one_half_last]Hoping Mechanisms[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Alana Hunt[/one_half][one_half_last]Potholes[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Vidya Rajan[/one_half][one_half_last]Pre-emptive mourning[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Vidya Rajan[/one_half][one_half_last]Panic Attack[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Wesley Robertson[/one_half][one_half_last]Granmarie[/one_half_last]

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