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Publishing longform criticism and essays by Australia's best writers since 2013. Online and in Parramatta.

I, Was, Am? Nina Culley on zombies and what identity looks like when it’s stripped away .

The Fire Dragon, Between Myths and Realities: Quah Ee Ling on the uses of the fire dragon for feminist critique

The Outer Spaces of Fiction: Lauren Collee on writers going boldly where no humans have gone before

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Living it Line by Line: Hossein Asgari and Kim Cheng Boey on writing fiction about poets INTERVIEW

The Poet Eaters: Alice Allan and James Jiang on poetry reviewing ten years after ‘The Poet Tasters’ INTERVIEW

Good Posture: Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen on Pitaya Chin’s critique of performative morality REVIEW

The Shadow and the Acolyte: Joseph Steinberg on the origins of Australian creative writing programs ESSAY

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