Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.
Gretchen Shirm is the author of a collection of short stories Having Cried Wolf and a novel Where the Light Falls. Her work has been shortlisted for a number of national awards including the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Awards. She is currently working on a novel-in-stories titled The Crying Room.