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Earthwords & Artlings
Kia ora Worders, Earthwords & Artlings is the name of AELA’s (Australian Earth Laws Alliance) Voices of Nature Anthology, Volume One, and features Ancient Beauty, a poem I wrote about …
Expanding Horizons
We inhabit a world All around us All time Everything changing Renewing Things Transforming Transmuting To one evolving form Giving up essence Literature loves translations fed by every exuberance Every …
We Want You!
We Want You! we invite our new comrades to propaganda nation | we promise instant gratification | follow us | this is your new notification | enter and take command …
I’m Writing This On the Toilet…
…because that is one of two places I can currently get reception on my phone and catch up on my fellow writers’ blog posts and allow inspiration (among other things) …
Forensic Files Frenzy
What I’ve learned from watching 376 episodes of forensic files.
Connecting Dots
*** (a poem) *** white finger tips press over bumps smears orange dust on Forgotten Road red circles are Family Camps in Nature they move on together Black History gone …
The Closing Of A Book
Shift your life from a peasant
of wisdom to nirvana’s next top model…
Dear Mr Hemingway
Dear Mr Hemingway, We thank you for your submission, and for your service to your country. Our publication is currently not looking for stories based around war as we believe …
City of 43 Angels
Facebook prompts memories of ‘this time last year’ or ‘this time five years ago’ and sometimes you get a sense of ‘shit, I forgot about that whole thing’ or ‘shit, …
Why am I the history teacher who doesn’t attend an ANZAC Day service?
History is full of many perspectives. I acknowledge, thank and honour the individuals who lost, risked and fought for their lives for Australia, the place where I was born and …
‘Strayan Public Holiday
People talk about how St Kilda has changed. I think about how the drugs have changed. I think about how Paul Kelly preferred Melbourne over Sydney and how I do …
The Man And The Bird
A topic of discussion amongst many of my friends and I lately has been about how our own art, in all forms whether it be creative writing, visual, musical, fine …
Louie, Louie
I see him, old Louie and he just stands there and stares like some big old thing. His shades loping. His brows furrowed. His sills dusty. But everyday I sing …
Screw-This-City-Itus: A Guest Post by Jaclyn in London
London, A Guest Post by Jaclyn My first week in London I saw someone pee publicly, it wasn’t at some odd hour of the morning, nothing between the hours …
The Turn Of The Crow
Ever put a book down in the middle of reading it – for good? If so, did you ever look back with a pang of guilt? Or was it a …
Rubber-band Thoughts
Your toes are connected to your leg-bones and your leg-bones are connected to your tail-bone and your tail-bone is connected to your skull and your skull is connected to your …
Understanding the Creative Process
I came across an article called ‘Demystifying the Creative Process‘, by Charlie Gilkey. Gilkey describes the creative process in four parts: preparation, incubation, illumination and implementation. The creative process is …
World War Three #9/11
Originally posted on itacacontest:
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call “World. War. Three.” Those were the three words that I heard as my radio alarm…
