Cirrus@Austlit

'I’m very pleased that #UNFUNDED Issue 20 has arrived to celebrate a decade of Mascara.

'My thanks to all our contributors to the journal and to our editors, especially Jo Langdon and our intern, Zachary Ward.

'We remain grateful to the Australia Council and to the writing community for their strong support, past and present in social media and for our activism.

We are seeing new literary journals such as The Suburban Review, Pencilled-In and platforms such as Feminartsy emerge to support writers in the margins, suggesting the continuity of discourses necessary to sustain and foster diversity.

'A serious editorial is to follow here soon; meantime, we hope you enjoy some of the excellent work in these pages ….

Michelle Cahill

Editor

April 2017

(Editorial)

'In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country’s leading literary talents. Herself an award-winning short-story writer, Beneba Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with experience and truth, and celebrate the art of storytelling.' (Publication summary)