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Issue 28
Poetry
Kirli Saunders
Kavita Nandan
Naomi Williams
Anthea Yang
Lesh Karan
Peter Ramm
Deborah Cass Prize
Anneliz Marie Erese
Nilofar Zimmerman
Min Chow
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Patrick Flanery
Christopher Cyrill
Morgaine Riley
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T.L
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Maki Morita
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Alicia Marsden in conversation with Michelle Cahill
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Announcing the 2023 Mascara Varuna Writers’ and Editors’ Residency
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Marie-Claire Colyer reviews
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
by Shankari Chandran
Adele Dumont reviews
Childhood
by Shannon Burns
Michelle Cahill reviews
This Devastating Fever
by Sophie Cunningham
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Sydney Spleen
by Toby Fitch
The brush-tipped tongue of a honeyeater functions the same way as a paint brush 2018 Madeleine Kelly
Acrylic and oil on polyester 137 x 101cm
Photo: Carl Warner