Cover: Lorri Whiting, reproduced with the permission of her estate.
Photograph © Kevin Brophy, 2019.
Westerly Issue 65.1
Volume 65 Number 1, July 2020
Felicity Plunkett
Nardi Simpson
Nicholas Jose
Tracy Ryan
Kevin Brophy
and more…
‘Winter Flight’
by Gabriel Furshong
Passage after passage
to worry or wonder
what meaning glosses
between one language
angling
compulsive
destined
and the other
With writing and ideas from Felicity Plunkett, Nardi Simpson, Nicholas Jose, Tracy Ryan, Kevin Brophy, and many more.
Westerly 65.1 includes writing in support of victims of Australia’s 2020 bushfire disaster, and the latest group of emerging talent to pass through our Writers’ Development Program
Contents:
Essay
Nicholas Jose The Story of the Moon-Bone
Jessica Stewart Exploring Attributes of a Successful Author–Editor Relationship in Creative Writing
Kevin Brophy 'Waves, Mountains, Wings and Sails’ Part Two
Fiction
Nardi Simpson Song of the Crocodile
James Turvey Telepathy, Smoke and Violence
Donna Mazza The Last of its Kind
Ben Mason The Tyranny of History
Alex Philp Spectre
Laurie Steed The Crazy and the Brave
Chris Fleming Lion
Bryn Dodson Whitby, August
Creative Non-Fiction
Linda Martin I Went Looking for Mr Facey, Dad
Carly Stone Touching as Feeling as Touching Again
Brigid Lowry Angel Buddha Temple
Authors For Fireys
NE Le Beau Domestic Violence
Alan Fyfe A Hill Outside Yanchep
Julieanne Lamond Reading Crisis: The politics of fire in Amanda Lohrey’s The Reading Group and Vertigo
Adele Aria V for Vulnerable
Poetry
Felicity Plunkett One for Sorrow
Virginia Boudreau Oyster Shell
Josephine Clarke The Belt
Brenda Saunders Echidna Chasm
Gabriel Furshong Winter Flight
Jackson For Perspective
Anna Jacobson Row F Seat 10
Aidan Coleman Circuit, an elegy
Tamara Holmes ectopic
Eric Roy Checkered Like a Flag Our Past
Jen Webb At the end of everything
Marite Norris The Queen of Death
Tracy Ryan Release
Paul Hetherington Ship in a Bottle
Ross Jackson The Red Dingo
Julie Watts Waking at Night
Ella Fox-Martens Womanhood
Chris Arnold love in the time of covid19
Aileen Walsh White Blankets I & II
Chloe Hosking midwest october
Jazz Money False Gods
Matt Hall and Sophie Finlay Mass Death: murray cod, bream, gold perch
Isabel Prior The Crayfish
Andrew Lansdown Dip
Anne Elvey hail
Jonathan Dunk (f)or this
Megan Kaminsky A thing we ask entirely too much of
Writers’ Development Program
Kaya Ortiz Lattimore On Wednesdays we play [ ]
Riley Faulds Significant Tree Register
Mia Kelly Thinking Banksias in Words
Thomas Simpson Rubbish in Waiting
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