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‘Gone Daddy Gone: Brown Girl Seeking…’ by Candy Bowers
Photo by Matt Maier. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License. When I was in my final year of acting at The National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), I...
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Submit Your Fictions and Manuscripts to Us! Submit!
Photo by Ronald de Villa. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License. Good news, friends! We here at The Lifted Brow are open for submissions—and...
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A Mixtape by Sarah Mary Chadwick
A huge thanks to Sarah Mary Chadwick who made us this mixtape. Following three critically acclaimed solo albums, Sarah’s fourth solo album Roses Always Dieis out now through Rice Is Nice Records.1....
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The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction –...
We’ve been so, so humbled by the phenomenal response to our The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction: 375 entries, which were whittled down to a longlist of fifteen...
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‘Sasaki Maki and Abstract Comics,’ by Ben Juers
Ben Juers is a Sydney-based cartoonist.
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Excerpt: ‘Objects in Mirrors’, by Antonia Hayes
Photo by Tyler Nienhouse. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.Before we begin, I need to lay my cards on the table: I received a six-figure book advance for...
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‘Handle With Care: On White Australian Invisibility in Non-White Dialogues’,...
Photo by Alex Wisser.Mum and I sat across from my math teacher, who had a red face and grey toothbrush moustache and tucked his brightly coloured King Gee striped polos into his King Gee stubbies. His...
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We Want Your Clever Words About ‘Capital’ for TLB32!
The thirty-second issue of our print magazine is devoted to the theme of ‘Capital’. We want words and visuals that appraise the relationship between capital and the current state of the wor(l)d. This...
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TLB31: unveiled
We’re thrilled to be able to reveal the cover of our upcoming issue! We present to you: TLB31. The cover artwork is by one of our longggggtime favourites, Lee Lai. (And just wait till you see what...
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‘On Power, Sex, and Telling Our Own Messy Stories’, by Anonymous
Photo by Orin Zebest. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.When we published ‘Bitter Fruit’ in July this year, we received an overwhelming response from readers,...
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Excerpt: ‘How To Take Drugs in a Chemsex Epidemic’, by Dion Kagan
Chemsex opens with a night-time shot of London, then cuts to a full moon in a cloudy sky, then cuts to a dark suburban streetscape, and then cuts to the low-lit interior of an apartment with a close-up...
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‘Time of Life: Penis Whistles and Performance Art at Dark Mofo’, by Kate...
Image by Dominik Krupinski.On the bus, the duet from Dirty Dancing, ‘(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life’, is playing too loud for the tinny speakers. Pink balloons hang from the ceiling and tassles fringe...
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‘Victoria, from 4 to 7’, by Annabel Brady-Brown
Annabel is one of the incoming editors of our print magazine (Zoe Dzunko is the other incoming editor), taking over from Ellena Savage and Gillian Terzis. In order to celebrate the imminent release of...
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TLB x MWF: Come (Launch) Party With Us!
If there’s one thing we like doing more than making a literary journal, it’s launching issues of said literary journal. Kidding! Making this literary journal is a reward in itself; we would do it even...
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‘Moral Danger: a Review of Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s “The Love of a Bad...
1.The theme of Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s debut short story collection could be a Nick Cave concept album: each of the stories in The Love of a Bad Man fictionalises a real-life sexual and romantic...
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The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction –...
We are thrilled to announce the winner of our second The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction: ‘Trashman Loves Maree’, by W.J.P. Newnham.Born in Melbourne in 1965 at...
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‘Zoe Dzunko Recommends: Crying in a Cinema’, by Zoe Dzunko
Zoe is one of the incoming editors of our print magazine (Annabel Brady-Brown is the other incoming editor), taking over from Ellena Savage and Gillian Terzis. In order to celebrate the imminent...
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TLB31 – Out Now, Now, Now!
Good news, friends! From today you can pick up a copy of our latest issue, TLB31. This is the first issue helmed by our new editors, Annabel Brady-Brown and Zoe Dzunko, and it’s everything you ever...
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‘When Female Rebelliousness Becomes a Selling Point: a Review of “Rebellious...
My first issue with Rebellious Daughters is with the cover. A honeybee-yellow with a lipstick mark on top, the names of the authors are printed in red, in a font that looks only slightly less...
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Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sink on FBi’s ‘Book Club’ Podcast
Over the weekend, FBi’s ‘Book Club’ podcast tackled Briohny Doyle’s debut novel (and, yep, our own first book as publishers), The Island Will Sink. Podcast hosts Paige Leacey (filling in for Samirah...
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