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‘Tappahannock’, by Emily O’Grady
Image by Baileyusa115. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic LicenseWe pulled into the Super 8 car park close to midnight. Straight to Virginia from Georgia,...
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‘The Woodpecker’, by Aimee Harrison
Tape art mural by Tony Morse.This piece was first published online by TLB in 2012. A lot has happened since 2012! Specifically, we changed the way our website works and a lot of content from the...
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Excerpt: Teen Evangelism, by Briohny Doyle
Image by Rob Schofield. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.PULL QUOTE: It’s the day after David Bowie’s death turned the whole internet into a shrine. It’s the day...
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Subscribe to the Brow this week & receive a free back issue!
This week only, if you subscribe to The Lifted Brow— or if you gift a subscription to a friend — then you not only receive four brand-spanking-new issues delivered to your door over the next each year,...
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Send us your ficciones!
We’re now open for fiction submissions, and we want yours. Since our first issue in 2007, we’ve published fiction from many emerging writers that have since become celebrated names. We’ve also...
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“Throwing Stones from Car Windows”: A Review of Martin McKenzie-Murray’s “A...
I had a nightmare once about being lost in Balga, a neighbourhood a few suburbs south-east of Quinns Rocks, from where Rebecca Ryle’s killer hails. It was deep night, the formless suburbs stretching...
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Live-Stream Our Experimental Non-Fiction Workshop
Did you know that we will be running a one-day workshop focussing on the histories and practices of experimental non-fiction writing in the lead-up to the deadline for The Lifted Brow and...
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Excerpt: ‘Get Me Out of Here’, by Paola Balla
Photo by chrisjtse. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.“Too much too young. Get me out of here…”Chrissy Amphlett wails into the microphone while I vacuum—it’s...
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‘Coralie Jones’, by Alice Robinson
Alice Robinson produced this piece during Noted, Canberra’s independent writers’ festival. She was asked to write a memoir for a real or imagined character using LinkedIn, and these are the results....
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Horrorscopes
Back in TLB20 we published a series of ‘horrorscopes’ – reworked daily horoscopes that, because of their adjustments, perhaps better reflect actual life. Here is what one of the creators, Matthew...
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Excerpt: ‘Tea’, by Helen Addison-Smith
Photo by fran west. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.This is what I grew up with: teabag tea as a punctuation mark, flat and ordinary. My mum made it this...
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‘The Magic of the Real: A Review of Jennifer Down’s “Our Magic Hour”’, by...
It’s kind of a national sport for early career1 writers to rag on the contemporary Australian lit scene. It can be easy to think that it’s a closed shop run by a nefarious cabal of editors and...
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Experimental Non-Fiction Prize Judge: Dodie Bellamy
In the lead-up to the May 29 submission date for The Lifted Brow & non/fictionLAB Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, we will be profiling each of our amazing judges to give you a little...
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‘The Mess of Theatre in the Millennial Generation: A Response to Tiny Bricks’...
Image: detail from ‘Flood Destroying the World’ by Gustave Doré (public domain).We walk into the theatre, seats on four sides surrounding a clear Perspex box. I see a lone forearm in a pool of white...
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The Lifted Brow: Digital – Now Bigger, Better, Digital-er
Here at TLB we’ve had a digital version of our celebrated quarterly attack journal for some time now, but that digital version was through an app restricted to iOS devices. We’re very happy to announce...
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Excerpt: ‘Blood in Leather’, by Robbie Arnott
Photo by Chris Schmich. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.When I think about pleasure—chewy, physical, primitive pleasure—I see a maroon piece of leather...
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Experimental non-fiction prize judge: Kate Zambreno
In the lead-up to the May 29 submission date for The Lifted Brow & non/fictionLAB Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, we will be profiling each of our amazing judges to give you a little...
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‘The Great Illusion: A review of Helen Garner’s “Everywhere I Look”’, by...
What is it to review a collection of essays written by someone you’ve admired your entire adult life? I keep copies of some of Helen Garner’s books, among others, on a shelf above the desk where I...
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We Would Like Your Comics and Visual Art Very Much Indeed
If you have ever picked up a copy of The Lifted Brow—or looked at a digital version—you’ll know the following fact to be true: in addition to excellent words, we also publish excellent visual art and...
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Third and Final Digital Instalment of TLB29 Is Now Available on the Web and...
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. When enough of those days have elapsed after the release of the latest print edition of the Brow, we release that same issue digitally,...
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