Contents

Regulars

Jeff Sparrow – Editorial

Alison Croggon
Mel Campbell
Giovanni Tiso
Stephen Wright
Contributors

FEATURES

Laurie Penny
Why I write
Words against power

JOHN MARNELL
Imagined worlds
Queer writing in Africa

Various
The future of magazines
A survey of literary editors

Rjurik Davidson
On writer’s block
What the blank page says about writing

Hugo Race
The crystal blitz, 1981
A memoir from post-punk Melbourne

Barnaby Lewer
Alternative spaces
Utopian thought and the logic of capital

Andrew Nette
Disappeared in Laos
What happened to Sombath Somphone?

Dougal McNeill
Migration, my nation!
Poetry, world literature and resistance

Shannon Woodcock
Hope dies last
Romani resistance to the Holocaust

Jim Davidson
Stephen’s vector
The evolution of Overland’s founder

FICTION

Jennifer Mills – Fancy cuts: an introduction

Christos Tsiolkas
Petals

Sarah Klenbort
Into the woods

Jacinda Woodhead
Jellyfish

POETRY

Fiona Hile
A portable crush

Pam Brown
Fading
Collected melancholy

Kate Fagan
Thinking with things

Ann Vickery
Autumnal hook

Keri Glastonbury
Goodbye to all that

Jill Jones
Wind shadow