'It is Brisbane Writer's Festival 2015, and I have had a grand total of 6 hours sleep in the past 50-or-so hours. I am tired and jittery, thanks to the three cups of coffee I downed that morning (I don't usually drink coffee!) and I am walking around the state library grounds with Krysi the producer. But I am also deliriously happy. I have just spent the past three days soaking the festival in, talking to and drinking with some incredible people.' (Editorial Introduction)
Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Visual art
Where Your Community? by Rachel Ang
Post Fight by Lee Lai
Lalbagh Kella by Paula Abul
Don't Lose Your Marbles by Stephanie Mannerheim
Mercy in Knots by Angela Serrano and Von Riga
Excerpts from 'After Sengai, but Similar as Masturbation is to Fucking' by Jason Phu
Untitled by Hiro Mcl
Love Is by Rachel Ang
' My heels clipped the pavement, tap-tapping a secret code: What are you looking for?"
I swept past Knightsbridge, where Canberra's young professionals (public servants, mostly) line up for half an hour, sometimes longer, to dance.I turned left before the bus interchange, surveyed the precocious smokers outside Academy Club, then right down a laneway into Garama Place.' (Introduction)
The Pause
'An acrobat balancing on a tightrope between deniability and plausibility. Me when it comes to a man wearing armour made of the dying sun.' (Introduction)