Westerly Issue 68.1

With writing, artwork and ideas from Charmaine Papertalk Green, Ouyang Yu, John Kinsella, Jumaana Abdu, Stephen Muecke, Andrew Sutherland, Brenda Saunders, DeWitt Henry, Michael Farrell, Wes Lee, Alan Fyfe, Gemma Nethercote Way, Luisa Mitchell, Bryant Apolonio, Kate North, Ellen Shelley, Sampurna Chattarji, Jo Langdon, Luoyang Chen, Julie Watts, Tiffany Ko, Christopher Konrad, Cass Lynch, Rachel Robertson, Helena Kadmos, Jo Pollitt, Coral Carter, Suzanne Hermanoczki, Petra White, Kathryn Hummel, Madeleine Dale and many others…

[one_half]Wes Lee[/one_half][one_half_last]wearing the night[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Stephen Muecke[/one_half][one_half_last]‘flash up, flare up, sparkle, coruscate, glint, gleam, glimmer, streak, twinkle, and so on’[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Hannah Reynolds[/one_half][one_half_last]Idiot Maths vs the Natural Bridge[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Brenda Saunders[/one_half][one_half_last]The Disappearing[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne[/one_half][one_half_last]A telephone pole shaped like a crucifix, sundown[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Isabella G. Mead[/one_half][one_half_last]Megafauna[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Gemma Nethercote Way[/one_half][one_half_last]Rituals[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jennifer Allen[/one_half][one_half_last]Some People’s Ghosts[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jonno Revanche[/one_half][one_half_last]Recovery[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Patricia Reid[/one_half][one_half_last]did a bloody bear take a bath in that[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kate North[/one_half][one_half_last]Fluid Dynamics[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jan Napier[/one_half][one_half_last]the thylacine on my tea towel[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Michael Farrell[/one_half][one_half_last]How Do They Live[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jarad Bruinstroop[/one_half][one_half_last]First Road Trip[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Coral Carter[/one_half][one_half_last]breakfast with my brother[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Christopher Konrad[/one_half][one_half_last]Found[/one_half_last]
[one_half]DeWitt Henry[/one_half][one_half_last]On Scars[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Svetlana Sterlin[/one_half][one_half_last]Apocalyptic sunsets at the дача[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Brendan Ryan[/one_half][one_half_last]Taking it Slow[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Graham Kershaw[/one_half][one_half_last]Valley[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Luoyang Chen[/one_half][one_half_last]Stone Flower[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ion Corcos[/one_half][one_half_last]Strange to be Ignorant about Life[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Miles Hitchcock[/one_half][one_half_last]On the Day of Her Death, the Spirit of Queen Elizabeth II Passes through the Town of Kalgoorlie, Wangkatha Country, Western Australia[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Julie Watts[/one_half][one_half_last]Short—[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Toby Davidson[/one_half][one_half_last]Floating Over Atlantis[/one_half_last]
[one_half]David Bunn[/one_half][one_half_last]A thousand pieces[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ellen Shelley[/one_half][one_half_last]An Island[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rhian Healy[/one_half][one_half_last]The park after dark Or, the djiti djiti speaks[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Alicia Sometimes[/one_half][one_half_last]Portrait at Howqua River[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Petra White[/one_half][one_half_last]Elegy (12)[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Luisa Mitchell[/one_half][one_half_last]How to check you’re still alive[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Madeleine Dale[/one_half][one_half_last]Taking Men Off the Ice An alternate history of the Franklin Expedition[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Sampurna Chattarji[/one_half][one_half_last]Day 6[/one_half_last]

Creative Nonfiction

[one_half]John Kinsella[/one_half][one_half_last]Labelled, I Became a Puppet Theatre of Protest[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kathryn Imray[/one_half][one_half_last]History Is Dead People[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kathryn Hummel[/one_half][one_half_last]Shark Week[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ouyang Yu[/one_half][one_half_last]My Sixteen Grandfathers[/one_half_last]

Writers Respond to the John Stringer Prize 2022

[one_half]Cass Lynch[/one_half][one_half_last]Wheat and Moon[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rachel Robertson[/one_half][one_half_last]A Gesture Towards Steam[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Helena Kadmos[/one_half][one_half_last]Leaning In[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jo Pollitt[/one_half][one_half_last]all ways fire she gives[/one_half_last]

Fiction

[one_half]Alan Fyfe[/one_half][one_half_last]Autobiography of a Corridor[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Paul Fiocco[/one_half][one_half_last]Honeyeater[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jo Langdon[/one_half][one_half_last]Parting Points[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Tiffany Ko[/one_half][one_half_last]嫲嫲 Maa Maa[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Bryant Apolonio[/one_half][one_half_last]All Persons Living or Dead[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kelvin Kellman[/one_half][one_half_last]A Brief History of My Name[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jumaana Abdu[/one_half][one_half_last]Children Go Straight to Heaven When They Die[/one_half_last]

Poetic Constellations

[one_half]Elfie Shiosaki, Guest Editor[/one_half][one_half_last]Note on Westerly's 'Poetic Constellations'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Charmaine Papertalk Green[/one_half][one_half_last]Ilgari Aba / Grandmother Sky[/one_half_last]

The Randolph Stow Memorial 2023

[one_half]Andrew Sutherland[/one_half][one_half_last]Autobiography of a Sickness[/one_half_last]

Essay

[one_half]Laura Warren[/one_half][one_half_last]To Be Both/And[/one_half_last]

The AAWP/Westerly Life Writing Prize 2022

[one_half]Suzanne Hermanoczki[/one_half][one_half_last]Doors[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Lily Chan[/one_half][one_half_last]avatar[/one_half_last]

Westerly Issue 68.1

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