New Writing
- Wanted
Juni Desireé
“When I introduced my sister to a friend, my friend laughed and said, ‘No.’
My sister nodded, and my friend looked from me to my sister to me again …” - The Question Concerning Technology
John Henry
“When it comes to technology, it seems like you can draw up a definite schema of progress across history as a whole, and no one will disagree with you …” - Those left behind
Rachel Kirk
“On his first walk around the island that morning Pieter picked up three pieces of wood, sixteen plastic bottles, twelve tin cans and, miraculously, a single book, swollen up with water like a ripe fruit …” - The Poems
Ashleigh Mounser
“The day Saddam tries to die, Will has already written a hundred poems about his origami palms clenched into a fist, about that fist clenched around his own throat …” - Always Greener
James Parker
“Rural highways tended to be quiet, especially around this time of afternoon, but they hadn’t seen anyone in ages. It was as if the nothing existed but the pair of them, making their way through the country, down the ocean path …” - Birdcatchers
Kristin Robertson
“What happens to the birds who get stuck in the subway?
Only God and I know.
I’ve been catching birds for nearly 20 years now. 20 years of feathers in my face, of wriggling grey creatures …” - Blowholes
Emily Wilson
“There was only one road out and back from the blowholes. High on the grey saltbush hills to your left were the glaring rows of designer housing surrounded by barbed fences …”