Welcome. In this issue of StylusLit, I interview Donna Ward, editor, writer, and publisher of Inkerman and Blunt. The Courier Mail’s arts editor, Phil Brown, gives us another taste of growing up in Hong Kong, while Maria Griffin tells us about strangers, and Elisabeth Hanscombe explores risky habits. Cheryl Hayden, and Emma Beach and Cheryl Burman give us a look at excerpts from their novels, and Pym Schaare shares some short fiction.
Poets included are Carolyn Abbs, Iain Britton, Anne M. Carson, Robbie Coburn, Eileen Chong, Natalie D-Napoleon, Eduardo Escalante, Alison Flett, Mindy Gill, Jonathan Hadwen, Allan Lake, Graeme Miles, Damen O’Brien, Nathanael O’Reilly, Gregory Piko, Maree Reedman, Chris Ringrose, Paul Scully, Isi Unikowski and Jena Woodhouse.
Read reviews of Richard James Allen’s Fixing the Broken Nightingale, Broede Carmody’s Flat Exit, Kristen Lang’s SkinNotes, Eddie Paterson’s redactor and Omar Sakr’s These Wild Houses.
Enjoy!
Rosanna Licari
Bios
Creative Non-fiction
No more gambling
By Elisabeth Hanscombe
Remember the Sidetracks?
By Phil Brown
When You See a Stranger
By Maria Griffin
Fiction
Baby’s Breath
By Pym Schaare
Excerpt from ‘Act of Faith’
By Cheryl Hayden
Excerpt from ‘Fallen Woman’
By Emma Beach and Cheryl Burman
Poetry
A Chorale of the Savanna
By Paul Scully
Aubade
By Mindy Gill
Baptism
By Nathanael O’Reilly
Book Burning for Beginners
By Robbie Coburn
Children in Square Hector Berlioz, Clichy Paris
By Jena Woodhouse
Cloud Bateman’s Bay, NSW
By Anne M. Carson
Foto Sicily: Piano
By Allan Lake
In Rodenbach
By Graeme Miles
Letter
By Robbie Coburn
My Brother’s House
By Maree Reedman
Noah’s Roaming Raven
By Chris Ringrose
october weekend
By Jonathan Chan
Secrets
By Gregory Piko
Serpent
By Eileen Chong
Sheep Graziers’ Alert
By Isi Unikowski
Spanish Poems
By Jonathan Hadwen
Tenebrae
By Alison Flett
Terra Nullius
By Chris Ringrose
The Bells
By Eileen Chong
The Mouth is a Door
By Natalie D-Napoleon
the untitled garden
By Iain Britton
The Wedge
By Damen O'Brien
To the Lake
By Carolyn Abbs
Vixen
By Alison Flett
Whatever Matters
By Eduardo Escalante
While he spoke about the one beyond being
By Graeme Miles
Reviews
Fixing the Broken Nightingale
By Richard James Allen
Flat Exit
By Broede Carmody
Redactor
By Eddie Paterson
SkinNotes
By Kristen Lang
These Wild Houses
By Omar Sakr