Helen Hagemann

Published in August on Spring Poetry Wall, Joondalup Library – Listen to poem Through a Litany of Filtered Light When it comes to naturethere is no half measure,no illusion or suggestion.You follow kangaroos, ducks,bobtails, the weed choke on deadwood.You enter fragility, old ghost trails,settler’s huts, cold granite– that other world –through a litany of filtered light. © Nature sways you to…

Cate Kennedy is an Australian author based in Victoria. She graduated from University of Canberra and has also taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. It was also shortlisted for The Age fiction prize 2010 and the ASA…

Suggested Reading & Exercises  ©                                                                     Josephine Rowe was born in 1984. She lives in St. Kilda and is the author of East of Here, Close to Water, Asynchrony and How a Moth Becomes a Boat. Rowe – who earlier self-published her collections East of Here, Close to Water;etc–. has now had her last book How a Moth Becomes a Boat taken up by…

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New Series Featuring Australian Authors and Their Short Fiction © Robert Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, later working as a junior reporter for The West Australian. He moved to Melbourne in his twenties working for The Age and went on to be literary editor at The Australian before turning to fiction. His first…

While I wait for my five minutes of fame on the Rochford Street Review’s Bloomsday Edition, I thought I would share my other publication of a scifaiku poem that will be published in the Peter Cowan Writers Centre’s Zine #3, The Tides we Change These are the other scifaiku submitted that failed.. Two RobotsSqueak arms and legsNo knee replacements –o- Terracotta warriorsLine ten abreastNeed oil…

New Poem 1st Draft When news came to write a poemabout light and dark, I first thought ofnight and day, but that was too simple. Maybe, as I sat with my coffee and toast,the early morning lines of blue and pinkin the sky were more interesting as they played snakes and ladders with the clouds.The silver gum joined in with the game andas the sun rose higher in the sky, dazzled the numerous…

Looking at the short story collection; Wicked Women © Fay Weldon was born in Worcester, England 1931 where her father was a physician and her mother a writer. She was educated at the University of St. Andrews, from which she received her M.A. in 1954. Six years later, she married Ronald Weldon. Weldon worked as a propaganda writer for the British Foreign Office and then as an advertising…

Looking at her short story, The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington as the daughter of a successful businessman. Her family was wealthy enough to afford to send her to Queen’s College, London for her education. She then returned to New Zealand for two years, before going back to London to pursue a literary career. She quickly fell into the bohemian way of life lived by many…