Absurd, extreme, fun, and frighteningly real. Splinter's first issue tours the world and the self and is mostly disappointed (horrified?) or confused about what it finds, although – sometimes, at least – it is funny. Read Sara M Saleh on how Gaza drew back the curtain on the self-serving mirror world of international law; Jane Rawson grappling with the inescapability of sonic environmental destruction; Susie Anderson asking why all the literary sad girls are having such uninspiring sex; and Anthony Nocera explaining how to make a foot pussy (while grieving). And lots of other, very interesting (sometimes even slightly optimistic) writing.
233mm x 164mm
25 writers
58,878 words
333,982 characters
2 references to Gra(e)y's Anatomy
Anthony Nocera, Brooke Dunnell, Dominic Symes, Finbar James, Frank Marrazza, George Titheridge, Hossein Asgari, Jane Rawson, Jayda Wilson, Jill Jones, Karen Wyld, KT Major, Lauren Poole, Magdalena Ball, Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí, Paris Rosemont, Patrick Marlborough, Ryan J Morrison, Sam Elkin, Sam Twyford-Moore, Sara M Saleh, Seamus Lonergan, Susie Anderson, Thom Sullivan, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Bats are falling from the sky. There's an inexplicable knocking on the front door at 2am. The Australian election took place in a parallel universe where climate change doesn't exist. A man you've never met before says he sees you in his dreams.
If the apocalypse isn't here yet (debatable), the writing in Splinter's second issue indicates it will be soon. Read new fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from emerging and established writers gesturing at the chaos, laughing despite it, and holding tightly to what they love.
If the apocalypse isn't here yet (debatable), the writing in Splinter's second issue indicates it will be soon. Read new fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from emerging and established writers gesturing at the chaos, laughing despite it, and holding tightly to what they love.
233mm x 164mm
25 writers
63,966 words
320,134 characters
1 reference to Survivor (the tv show, not the song)
Alex Cothren, Corey Theatre, Courtney Jaye, Ellena Savage, Erin Riley, Glenn Diaz, Hasib Hourani, Jessica White, Jo Case, JP Wilson, Katie Smith, Madeleine Nattrass, Mag Merrilees, Margot Albrecht, Naya Jehad Fathi Shalbak, Omar Musa, Oyewumi Fawaz Akorede, Rita Horanyi, Rowena Vnuk, Royce Kurmelovs, Sarah Sands Phillips, Smriti Daniel, Sofya Gollan, Stephanie Westwood, Wes Lee
Truth. Weirdness. Rage. Love. The First Nations issue criss-crosses the artificial borders between time and place to tell stories of joy and empowerment while also chronicling the absurdity of life in the colony.
Read new poetry, short fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and essays by First Nations Elders, emerging voices, and award-winning authors.
Read new poetry, short fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and essays by First Nations Elders, emerging voices, and award-winning authors.
144 pages
233mm x 164mm
28 writers
28,347 words
164,908 characters
1 reference to a (successful) Tinder date
Andraya Stapp, Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Cana Nongkhlaw, Colleen E. Charlette, Dakota Feirer, Emma-Lee Maher, Ezzideen Shehab, Hana Pera Aoake, Irene Wardle & Amy Davidson & Aunty Professor Lynette Riley & Professor John Clegg, Jannali Jones, Jeanine Leane, Kyrah Honner, Lady Shania Janet-Shayne Richards Dimer, Lavinia Richards, Leesha Cole, Lulu Houdini, Mali Harkin-Noack, Marcie R. Rendon, Maria van Neerven, Maxi Sam-Morris, Nathan mudyi Sentance, Nina Sivertsen, Raymond Buzzacott, Susan Betts, Tabitha Lean
Explore the tender nature of a bitter life with original poetry, essays, criticism, and short fiction from a group of new and magnetic literary voices.
Ranging from an essay about Kath Day-Knight’s menopause, to short fiction that blurs the lines between fandom and cannibalism, to criticism examining OzLit’s masculinity problem, and poetry that resonates with the dull clang of climate grief, issue four is absurd, fun, sometimes harrowing, and always uncomfortably compelling.
Ranging from an essay about Kath Day-Knight’s menopause, to short fiction that blurs the lines between fandom and cannibalism, to criticism examining OzLit’s masculinity problem, and poetry that resonates with the dull clang of climate grief, issue four is absurd, fun, sometimes harrowing, and always uncomfortably compelling.
233mm x 153mm
21 writers
46,050 words
252,202 characters
1 reference to shoplifting from Coles
Alex Sawyer, Angus McGrath, Aries M Gacutan, Audrey Menz, Brett Dionysius, Caitlin Farrugia, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Jake Dennis, Johnathon von Einem, Kate Maxwell, Koushiki Dasgupta Chaudhuri, Lucy Van, Mahmoud M Alshaer, Melanie Saward, Mx Sly, Olivia De Zilva, Tehnuka, Thomas Gloyn, Tikari Rigney, Zarah Yakubu