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‘After Skye Gellmann’s "Snow"’, a Poem by Autumn Royal
Skye Gellmann during ‘Snow’. Photograph by Hayden Shepherd.J. Patrick Lewis calls poetry ‘a circus for the brain’. After watching Skye Gellmann’s ‘Snow’, a circus performance at the 2014 Melbourne...
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'The Hysterical Woman', by Matilda Surtees
'Unnamed', by Georgia Denton. 'Unnamed' appears in the exhibition.Hysteria is a bit of an embarrassment for Western medicine. Once a catch-all diagnosis that was deployed with such vigorous frequency...
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'Lying in a Bed of Bee-Shaped Flowers: On Being Watched', by Chelsea Hodson
No one forced me to enrol in drama class during fifth grade summer school, but I chose it because I liked the idea of being a performer. I imagined myself spotlit, showered in stray roses and...
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‘Learning the Dialect’, by Felicity Castagna
Dialect really shouldn’t need to exist. The writers whose works are featured here represent contemporary Australia well: they are diverse, multilingual, and occasionally confronting. The publishing...
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Featured Contributor: Margo Lanagan browcontribs: Margo...
Featured Contributor: Margo Lanaganbrowcontribs:Margo Lanagan has been writing prize-winning stories for ages; her latest novel is Sea Hearts, her latest collection Cracklescape.Read Margo’s fiction...
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‘Toward a Taxonomy of the Plasticae: Meeting The Holotypic Occlupanid...
The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group logo. All images courtesy of HORG. In the murky backwaters of the internet, it’s possible to discover a gem. The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (HORG) is...
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Tone v Puten: Round 2 Missed Tone's last encounter with Puten?...
Tone v Puten: Round 2Missed Tone's last encounter with Puten? Catch up here.Follow us on Tumblr or Twitter or like us on Facebook to be the first to know about Tone’s next comic.
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Excerpt: 'The Critic', by Jana Perković
Illustration by Ben Juers.1. In which we do not talk about politics The first time the Critic saw a theatre work was in a squatted factory at sixteen, in Croatia. It was turn of the millennium, the...
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“You could probably visit my awesome lesbian GP, take off your pants and reveal Kuato—that sentient parasitic alien from Total Recall—sitting where your junk should be, and she wouldn’t flinch.” - from...
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“What did it look like?”: A Q&A with Ruben Östlund
Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund’s fourth feature, Force Majeure, is a ruthless dissection of familial and social dysfunction. While on a ski holiday in the French Alps, an affluent Swedish family’s...
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ELLEN VAN NEERVEN SAYS: APPLY FOR THIS Indigenous Editing Internship ALREADY
Ellen van Neerven, image from Readings.“In 2011 I started the inaugural Indigenous Editing Internship program at the black&write! at the State Library of Queensland, alongside Linda McBride-Yuke,...
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Featured Contributor: Marc Pearson browcontribs: One Marc...
Featured Contributor: Marc Pearsonbrowcontribs:One Marc Pearson is a tragedy, one million Marc Pearsons is a statistic. Marc draws pictures and talks and is around.Check out Marc’s comics in TLB 19,...
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Tone Speeks Abowt Gof 2 Parlamint Want more Tone? Click...
Tone Speeks Abowt Gof 2 ParlamintWant more Tone? Click here.Follow us on Tumblr or Twitter or like us on Facebook to be the first to know about Tone’s next comic.
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West Writers 'Our Stories' Forum
The Lifted Brow is proud to be a partner of the upcoming West Writers ‘Our Stories’ Forum to be held on 15th November at the Footscray Community Arts Centre. Produced by FCAC and the West Writers...
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Out Now! The Lifted Brow: Digital, Volume Fourteen, Issue One: The Spooky...
Cover art by Jr.Blue/LashnaTuschewski. The Spooky Edition of The Lifted Brow: Digital is out now! Like blood coagulating in the palm of your hands, the Spooky Edition is sticking with you! Maudlin...
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‘Pharma Roulette’, by Will Cox
Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons A secure hospital ward, one Wednesday morning in March. When the doctor approaches with her trolley, I still have time to tell her no, that I’ve decided I’m...
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‘A Chapter Called Women’, by Jillian Schedneck
A spread from the United Arab Emirates Yearbook.Yasmina tells me that in Dubai, the women’s effort came first, and then the government decided to give them support. I meet her one evening in the Dubai...
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'Between The End And The Very End', by Mitchell Welch
Photograph by Dixie Lawrence. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Licence. It’s 8:58am at the cemetery and already it’s hectic: “Yes ma’am, I’ll put...
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Featured Contributor: Karen Russell browcontribs: Karen...
Featured Contributor: Karen Russellbrowcontribs:Karen Russell is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Swamplandia!, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. No...
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'Operation No Compromise', a poem by Mark Cugini
'Pipesmoking Whale', a photograph by Askal Bosch. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Licence.I remember a time when I dreamt Iwas a whale shark,...
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