TLBPFENF LONGLIST ANNOUNCED
We are excited to announce the longlist for The Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction. 14 writers have made the longlist. We will announce the shortlist in a couple of weeks, and the winner...
View Article'Cuckoo in the Straw', by Peter Goldsworthy
Photograph by Holly Hayes. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. About babies they were mostly wrong, the Old Masters, even when they stuck wings on them. I saw my first bad...
View Article'Cash Rules Everything Around Me', by Jonathan David Brent
You’ve seen the statistics – the music industry as we know it isn’t looking well. It’s haemorrhaging revenue from physical media sales, and digital sales aren’t growing fast enough to stem the...
View ArticleThe Emerging Writers' Festival and The Lifted Brow present White Night:...
As part of Melbourne’s White Night festival on Saturday 21 February, The Emerging Writers’ Festival and the folks at The Lifted Brow are teaming up to make a special, one-off magazine in a night. The...
View Article'Mooncat', by Patrick Lenton
Photograph by Tom Gill. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.OK, so when it’s the full moon I turn into this goddamn ginger cat, alright? And I’m the smuggest asshole house cat...
View ArticleFeatured Contributor: Jonathan David...
Featured Contributor: Jonathan David Brentbrowcontribs:Jonathan David Brent is a writer and online editor of ACCLAIM magazine. He is based in Melbourne and the internet.Read his Middlebrow piece 'What...
View ArticleThe Lifted Brow x Emerging Writers' Festival x White Night = Red Eye
As part of Melbourne’s White Night festival on Saturday 21 February, we teamed up with The Emerging Writers’ Festival to make a special, one-off magazine in a night, which we named Red Eye. The...
View ArticleOne of Marc Pearson’s side panels for the Advice Comics in...
One of Marc Pearson’s side panels for the Advice Comics in The Lifted Brow 24: The Medicine Issue.marcpearson:one of the two side banners i drew for the latest advicecomics spread in The Lifted Brow...
View ArticleTLBPFENF SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
After announcing the longlist a couple of weeks ago, we are now thrrrrrilled to announce the shortlist for The Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction. Five writers have made the shortlist. The...
View ArticleA Mixtape by Martin King
As part of Melbourne’s White Night, a crew from The Lifted Brow and the Emerging Writers’ Festival got together to make a magazine overnight. The final product, Red Eye in name and nature, is a result...
View ArticleFeatured Contributor: Peter Goldsworthy browcontribs: Peter...
Featured Contributor: Peter Goldsworthybrowcontribs:Peter Goldsworthy’s latest book is His Stupid Boyhood; his 1996 novel Wish was also reprinted recently as a Text Classic.Read Peter’s poem ‘Cuckoo in...
View Article'"Laurinda", by Alice Pung: A Review', by Madeleine Crofts
Some people approach art the same way they approach choosing what to eat. Classics, literature, arthouse movies are broccoli, spinach, and oatmeal porridge; chick lit, romantic comedies, and young...
View ArticleREVEALED: COVER OF TLB25
Today we can reveal the cover of issue 25 of The Lifted Brow. One of our favourite artists, Lachlan Conn, helps us welcome in a new design and new format with his cover art.The issue will be on...
View Article'Phantom', a story by Jennifer Mills
Illustration by Lord Mantraste.When I come to, the lights are dim and Mr Thierney is a hump in the next bed. Even though it’s a private hospital it’s not exactly luxurious. I have to share a room. The...
View ArticleFeatured Contributor: Briohny Doyle browcontribs: Briohny...
Featured Contributor: Briohny Doylebrowcontribs:Briohny Doyle is a regular contributor to The Lifted Brow and has published fiction and criticism in Ampersand, Meanjin and Going Down Swinging. She...
View ArticleOld mate here can’t wait to meet you. Don’t let old...
Old mate here can’t wait to meet you. Don’t let old mate down. He’s already feeling a little flat…………The Lifted Brow issue 25.
View ArticleDiplomicy: Tone Edishun Want more Tone? Click here. Follow The...
Diplomicy: Tone EdishunWant more Tone? Click here.Follow The Lifted Brow on Tumblr or Twitter or like us on Facebook to be the first to know about Tone’s next comic.
View ArticleWe have a new edition and we want you to help us launch it.
Sick of waiting patiently (since September) for a new edition of The Lifted Brow to clutch in your slimy hands? Sick of having nothing to read or talk about, and moving around in a state of stunned...
View Article'Now That's What I Call Brand Engagement', by Kevin Fanning
Photograph by Justin Jackson. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic Licence.You emerged from the FedEx Office at the end of your eight-hour shift with only one 30-minute break....
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