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Issue 21
Poetry
Claire Potter
Robbie Coburn
WWF Short Story Prize
No Dams by Kathy Sharpe, winner
My Familia and Other Pigs by Georgia Manuela Delgado, highly commended
Deborah Cass Prize
The Journey Home by Sivashneel Sanjappa, shortlisted
Another Country by Jessie Tu, shortlisted
Fiction
Flash Fiction
Settling by Maris Depers
Reviews/Essays
Vivienne Glance reviews
The Circle and the Equator
by Kyra Giorgi
Annelise Roberts reviews
Sentences from the Archive
by Jen Webb
Dominique Hecq reviews
A Personal History of Vision
by Luke Fischer
Brianna Bullen reviews
False Nostalgia
by Aden Rolfe
Robert Wood reviews
Knocks
by Emily Stewart
Rose Hunter reviews
Poems of Mijail Lamas, Mario Bojórquez & Alí Calderón
translated by Mario Licón Cabrera
Zachary Ward reviews
Preparations for Departure
by Nathanael O’Reilly
Tony Messenger reviews
Constitution
by Amelia Dale
Hayley Scrivenor reviews
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Joshua Pomare reviews
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work
by Bernadette Brennan
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Sarah Katharina Kayß
Mascara Literary Review
gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australia Council for the Arts for Issues 3-18