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Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sink Nominated for Two Australian Book...
We here at TLB are just so, so stoked about how much the rest of the world likes our first foray into publishing books, Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sink. (For example: this, this, this, this and...
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‘An Uncertain Prognosis’, by Emilie Collyer
I follow the run up to the US election largely via social media, the three debates and the Saturday Night Live parodies of the debates. Like most people I know, I almost enjoy the horrific buffoonery...
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A Mixtape by Simona Castricum
Image by Laura DeVu.A huge thank you to Simona Castricum for putting together this mixtape for The Lifted Brow. Simona will be speaking at BROW TALKS on Wednesday 22 March, presented in partnership...
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‘Pink and Black’, by Michael Farrell
Image by Helen K. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.I was on a mountain once, and saw sand in your shoes There was a rosella feather in my old...
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The Lifted Brow Brings Mixtape Memoirs to Women of the World Festival
This Saturday the 25th of March, The Lifted Brow brings its much-loved Mixtape Memoirs series to WOW – Women of the World Festival Melbourne at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Five talented women have...
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Excerpt: ‘Drowning’, by Agri Ismaïl
Image by Zoi Koraki. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.“The facts remain that that terrible image was not brought about by recent events in...
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‘How Australian is Australian Enough?: a review of Roanna Gonsalves’s “The...
When I was younger, I was forced to go to church. Most of the congregation was from Taiwan, many of them international students. At the end of each service, time was allocated to pray for those who may...
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‘The Tyranny of Truth (or, How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Start Lying)’,...
Image by the author, picturing this New York Times subway poster.In our everyday talk, when we call an assertion ‘true’, we typically mean that it is in accordance with the facts. And when we say that...
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Excerpt: ‘We’re all going on a summer holiday’, by Rebecca Jessen
Image by abhisawa. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.agreeing on a holiday destination with your mother takes four days and twenty-eight phone...
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Check out our shiny new digital editions platform!
We have some information which may be of interest to your eyeballs! Our new digital editions platform is up and running, and it’s now even cheaper to subscribe or read single issues digitally.Our...
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We’re Having a Tenth Birthday Party – And You’re Invited!
As we’re sure you already know—since we haven’t stopped banging on about it—this year The Lifted Brow turned ten years old. Ten whole years! We couldn’t help but plan a celebration of ten years of the...
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A Mixtape by Rebecca Jessen
Image by Nike Sulway.A huge thanks to Rebecca Jessen for putting together this mixtape for The Lifted Brow. You can read an excerpt of Rebecca’s piece from Issue 33, ‘We’re All Going On A Summer...
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‘We Found a Billion Realities: a Review of Jane Rawson’s “From the Wreck”’,...
Jane Rawson has made her name as an author by playfully eluding genre conventions. Her quirk-riddled 2013 debut novel, A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists, hinged on a distinctly magical...
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‘At the Lake’, by Tolase Ajibola
Image by JiPs☆STiCk. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.These roads open like plants open leaves to light, swaying this or that way to adjust...
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‘Red Berry, Blue Berry: Working in Rural Australia’, by Dhruva Balram
Image by artfulblogger. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.A hazy mist is slowly enveloping the farmland. The last of the sun’s rays are gone,...
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Photos from Our 10th Birthday Party
Photographs by Sam Biddle.Last Saturday night, at Schoolhouse Studios in Collingwood, we held an absolutely smashing party to celebrate not only ten years of the Brow, but also the release of the 33rd...
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A Mixtape by Angie
Photograph by Charlie Dennington.A huge thank you to Angie for putting together this mixtape for The Lifted Brow.1. Chrissy Zebby Tembo – ‘Trouble Maker’I was first introduced to this album by rock...
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‘Where Are They Who Went Before? A Review of Kate Zambreno’s “Book of...
When I was maybe sixteen my father sticky-taped an A4 print-out of Dylan Thomas’ villanelle ‘Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night’ on the toilet wall. The famous poem’s two refrains are its title, and...
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The Lifted Brow and RMIT non/fictionLab’s Prize for Experimental Non-fiction...
After two huge years and an amazing response from our readers and supporters, The Lifted Brow and RMIT non/fictionLab is back for 2017. We’re stoked to announce that we’ve found five absolutely...
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An interview with Wakana Yamazaki, TLB33 cover/feature artist
To celebrate the amazing cover artwork for The Lifted Brow #33, our tenth birthday edition, our Art Editors Bailey Sharp and Ben Juers chatted through a translator with Tokyo-based illustrator Wakana...
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