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 Edited by Donna Lee Brien (general), Philip Neilsen (poetry), and Axel Bruns (hypermedia and Webmaster) ISSN 1444-2817 
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Volume Four:   Issue One  |  Issue Two          
Volume Three:   Issue One  |  Issue Two
          
Volume Two:   Issue One  |  Issue Two
          
Volume One:   Issue One  |  Issue Two          
Volume Four — Issue Two: November 2003
  Editorial   by Donna Lee Brien
& Philip Neilsen
 
      Introducing...  
  Introducing Josie Montano:
Writer of Children and Young Adult's
Fiction and Non-fiction
  by Donna Lee Brien  
      Poetry  
  Lights Off, Nude   by Alison Eastley  
  Pipe Dreams   by Alison Eastley  
  He Calls Me at Dinner Time   by Mandy Beaumont  
  Ghost Story   by Alison Eastley  
  Who Is Hearing?   by Sarah Nicholson  
  Love Poem to Erishkigal   by Sarah Nicholson  
  Postcard from Sanginngan   by Sarah Nicholson  
  Walking on Mermaids Feet   by Sarah Nicholson  
  Future Action   by Janice M. Bostok  
  Late New Years Eve   by Adam Murray  
  The Practice of Inverting the Human Heart   by Alison Eastley  
  Half-Moon   by Nicola Scholes  
  Leonard Cohen   by Corey Mesler  
  The Dead Tree Lesson   by Mark Allinson  
  Contiki People   by Melissa Petrakis  
  Translations
  by Misbah  
      Prose  
  Pick Up Your Heart on Your Way Out the Door...   by Craig Cormick  
  How Water Fits in Boxes   by Cheryl Burket  
  Red Velvet   by Elanna Herbert  
  The Tributary   by Sacha DeVelle  
  Public Wash   by Julie Bilbrough  
  Not like Your Mum   by Michael Hunt  
  When the Journey's Over   by Olga Pavlinova  
  Storm   by Ian MacNeill  
  Hit and Run   by Sue Taylor  
  A Hard Day's Chicken   by James Vanselow  
  Scene on a Boat   by Erin Gough  
  The Secret   by Vineta O'Malley  
  Strength in the Soup   by Benjamin Spooner  
  Boy's Night Out
  by Ethel Webb Bundell  
      Creative Nonfiction  
  Words I Have to Say: My Season in Hell   by Morgan Jones  
  Hiking Boots and Chanel No. 5: Women trekking Kokoda   by Helen Moye  
  Dancers Don't Use Doctors   by Laurie Rosenblatt  
  My Night without Armour   by Carly-Jay Metcalfe  
  One Cowboy Can't Control the World   by Magie Dominic  
  Power and Control in the Prison   by Debra Smith  
  A Little Piece of Cloudland
  by Francesca Berger  
      Hypermedia  
  Milne Bay, 1942   by Dallas Cluff  
  Eyes and Arseholes: A Dark History of the Sausage   by Grant Kennett  
  The Trumpet   by Benjamin Spooner  
  NiCoTiNe MoNkEy   by Trudi Plaschke  
  Building the Bomb   by James Halford  
  Francis the Gremlin Hunter   by Meg Martin  
  Boughanvilla State High   by Erin Pickering  
  Penny Loses Her Watch - A Hypertext Musical
  by Kathryn Mulheran  
      Special Section: Festivals  
  12th Brisbane International Film Festival:
Virtual Journal
  by Clint Lewis  
  Reflections on Creativity at the
2003 Melbourne International Film Festival
  by Aaron Catling  
  Brisbane Writers Festival 2003: Scribble
Edited by Nike Bourke and Tim Milfull
 
  Scribble Editorial
  by Nike Bourke & Tim Milfull  
  Taking the Brisbane Writers Festival in a New Direction
  by Steven Kiernan  
      Interviews  
  An Interview with Witi Ihimaera
  by Kathryn Mulheran  
  An Interview with Frances Whiting
  by Helen Klaebe  
  The Ties That Bind
  by Richard Jordan  
  An Interview with Phil Brown
  by Tim Milfull  
  How to Break into Screenwriting:
An Interview with Judi McCrossin

  by Benjamin Law  
  An Interview with Louise Limerick
  by Louise Ousby  
  An Interview with Paul Kingsnorth
  by Daniel Sanders  
  An Interview with Kathy Wilson
  by Louise Ousby  
  An Interview with Toni Janke
  by Toni Bartlett  
  An Interview with Scott Gardner
  by Carly Metcalfe  
  Playwrights Write, Right? An Interview with Bille Brown
  by Kate Watson  
  Locating Ross Gibson
  by Sverre Fiskaa  
      Features  
  The Weird and Wonderful Genre of Speculative Fiction
  by Bridgitte McKavanagh  
  Children's World of Poetry and Pictures
  by Susan Bonaci  
  Swimming with the Moon
  by Xanthia Harris  
  Radio...Isn't That Where They Talk and Stuff?
  by Saul Sherry  
  Eroticising the Everyday: Writing the Erotic
  by anon  
  "Sketching a Domestic Art":
Geoffrey Atherden & Keith Thompson Talk Tele
  by Richard Jordan  
  Brisbane's Emerging Writers
  by Alyssa Ryan and Richard Jordan  
      Profiles  
  A Fresh Wind
  by Tim Milfull  
  Irish Truth and Wisdom
  by Emma Cornford  
  Political Thriller Niche
  by Susan Bonaci  
  The Secret Life of Judi McCrossin
  by Benjamin Law  
  Popularising History
  by Tim Milfull  
  Tea for £20 000
  by Emma Cornford  
  Brisbane Icon Discusses: Fact or Fiction?
  by Emma Cornford  
  Lucashenko's Brisbane
  by Sverre Fiskaa  
  Solving the Crime
  by Daniel Sanders  
  Bronwyn's Homecoming
  by Megan Yarrow  
  Rodney Hall: A Profile
  by Casey Sullivan  
  Bowden Goes to Brisvegas
  by Tim Milfull  
  A Man on a Mission
  by Tim Milfull  
      Booklsellers' Perspectives  
  A Bookseller's Perspective: Avid Reader
  by Mia Ginnivan  
  A Bookseller's Perspective: Coaldrake's Books
  by Kathie Dickie  
      The Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing  
Doing the Hokey Homey:
Teaching Creative Writing through the
Contemporary American Short Story
by C. Jason Lee
 
         

Volume Four — Issue One: August 2003
  Editorial   by Donna Lee Brien, Philip
Neilsen, and Axel Bruns
 
      Commissioned Works  
  Hounded:
An extract from a novel set in the future,
The Last Clone
  by Maurilia Meehan  
      A History of 2/9th Battalion  
  'At Least We'd Have Bread':
A Soldier Remembers
  by Kerri Christopher  
  Curly in Tobruk   by Dorothy Farrell  
  Brian Wells   by Shannon Meldon  
  A History of the 2/9th Battalion in Tobruk   by Bridie James  
      Poetry  
  Wednesday Away from the Markets   by J.C. Nicholl-Cadell  
  Emily Goddamn   by J.C. Nicholl-Cadell  
  A Thought to My Sister   by Katarina Konkoly  
  Job   by Sherri Dickinson  
  This Continuous   by Catherine Daly  
  Contemplating Bliss   by Jane Dowling  
  Polymer   by Terri Butler  
  Magic   by Ron Price  
      Prose  
  Mince   by Julienne van Loon  
  12 Bridge Street   by Helen Moye  
  The Humidity We Breathe   by Roger Duncan  
  The Italian Connection   by David Andrews  
  Of an Intimacy   by Chad Parkhill  
  Vigilant   by Glenn Davies  
  Pilgrimage   by Danielle Ellis  
  The Place Between   by Emma Westlake  
  Rani Fashions   by Sreedhevi Ramachandran  
  A Matter of Days in Greece   by Angela Costi  
  Class of '52   by Merrill Lance  
  Satan at the Train Station   by Sonja Dechian  
  Satan's Minions   by Shelley Russell  
  A Respectable Job for a Sunday   by Kelly Pilgrim  
  Shark Boy   by Maree Kimberley  
  Darkness   by Matthew Custance  
  Hot Spot   by Adrian Milnes  
  The Western Front   by Mark Hoy  
  Memories of a Philosopher   by S.M. Chianti  
  Yellow Dreams   by Geoffrey Gates  
      Creative Nonfiction  
  The Army of Ballet   by Michelle Yan  
  The Flow of the Tiber   by Gregory Paul Mineeff  
  A Matter of Deportment:
The Sport and Sportsmanship of Ossie Walker
  by Pamela de Putron  
  The Devil: A Condensed Biography   by Bridie James  
      Special Section: Festivals and Events  
  Report from the Sydney Writers Festival 2003   by Susan Currie  
  In Search of an Epiphany:
A Sydney Film Festival Experience
  by Helen Yeates  
      Hypermedia  
  Voices in the Void   by Steven Kiernan  
  Wake Up...Bob Hope Is Dead   by Justin Marrington  
  What Happened to Rachel   by Kate Shanahan  
  Defenestration   by Lyndal Ross  
  Thursday to the Library   by Cameron Muir  
  Major Arcana...   by Grant Kennett  
  A Doll's House   by Carly-Jay Metcalfe  
  Body Parts   by Talina McKenzie  
  The Art of Observation   by Jessica Denniss  
  Drown: Five Faces of a Suburban Tragedy   by Chad Parkhill  
  Ashes to Ashes   by Claire Wilson  
  Click   by Katherine Wynne  
  Sense-a-Maze   by Nicole Edwards  
  Mytropolis   by Sverre Fiskaa  
  Mandy   by Lindy McBryde  
  In Her Absence   by Heidi Kefer  
  Patiently Waiting   by Dorthe-Beate Lia  
  A Change of Season   by Sarah Kindt  
  1st Date   by Lee Kim Siang  
Hotel Story
by Alyssa Ryan
         

Volume Three — Issue Two: July 2002
  Editorial   by Donna Lee Brien, Philip
Neilsen, and Axel Bruns
 
      Commissioned Works  
  Tracing Silence