Issue 218


REGULARS

Jeff Sparrow – Editorial
Alison Croggon
Mel Campbell
Stephen Wright
Giovanni Tiso
Contributors

FEATURES

Khalid Warsame
The authentic writer self
CAL–Connections essay series

Christopher Scanlon
Happiness™
The dark side of positive psychology

Jennifer Down
The end
Overcoming grief

Kirsten Tranter
Go, little book
On being reviewed

Tony McKenna
The politics of deduction
The secret of Sherlock Holmes

Michael Brull
A tale of two settler colonies
Australia and Israel compared

SAFDAR AHMED
The Refugee Art Project
Drawing behind the wire

John McLaren
Bias Australian?
Revisiting Overland’s early decades

FICTION prizes

Jennifer Mills
VU prize judges’ report
Paddy O’Reilly
Story Wine prize judges’ report
FICTION

Madelaine Lucas
Dog story
Michelle Wright
Late change
Kyra Giorgi
The circle and the equator
Leah Swann
That inward eye
Ali Alizadeh
Samira was a terrorist

POETRY

John KInsella
Emily Stewart
Tim Thorne
Beth Spencer
Ben Walter
Phillip Hall
Nathan Curnow
Brendan McDougall
Mark O’Flynn
Dusk Dundler
Cassandra Atherton
Martin Kovan

ILLUSTRATIONS

Léuli Eshraghi
Lily Mae Martin
Fikaris
Mahla Karimiyan
Sam Wallman
Merv Heers
Madina sayar
Anton Pulvirenti
Alwy fadhel

COVER ART
Richard Lewer

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