REGULARS

Editorial

Alison Croggon

Mel Campbell

Stephen Wright

Giovanni Tiso

Contributors

FEATURES

Ben Eltham

The excellence criterion

The future of arts funding

Laurie Penny

Facebook absolution

On corporate policing of identity

Eliora Avraham

Transgender justice

A manifesto

Sam Wallman

Ain’t no border high enough

Crossing Fortress Europe

Jessie Webb

Reading machines

The need to speed-read

Sophie Cunningham

Gold rush

Housing politics in the Mission District

Lauren Carroll Harris

Are Australian universities creating good artists?

Capitalism and the canvas

Simon Gennard

Simply air vibrating

The myths of Master Marconi

FICTION

2015 VU Short Story Prize report

Barry Lee Thompson

First place: Their cruel routines

Jennifer Down

Runner-up: Alpine Road

Genevieve Poetka

Runner-up: Faking

2015 Story Wine Prize report

Melissa Manning

Woodsmoke

POETRY

joanne Burns

breakfast at the end of a financial year

john Kinsella

Madingley

Vanessa Kirkpatrick

Night air

Cameron Lowe

Glow

Fuse

Kevin gillam

’73

Derek Motion

pages

Philip Neilsen

Noosa Beach

Joel Scott

Trauerring

Jason Walker

Tamarisk

Deb Westbury

Magnetic Poetry Kit – mostly found