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Excerpt: ‘Militant Spring’, by elena gomez
Image by Михал Орела. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.i.things i wanted in the video: > text ? leaves ! clouds : a harp or a mandolin $...
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‘Die Hard, or Just Live in Mild-to-Severe Discomfort: on the Portrayal of...
When I was nine, a swimming instructor tried to teach me how to dive. I was expected to kneel—bum-on-feet style—at the edge of the pool, while placing my palms together, putting my head between my...
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‘All Rapped Up: The Creation of a Hip Hop Space in 1970s South Bronx’, by...
The right to the city … can only be formulated as a transformed and renewed right to urban life.— Henri Lefebvre, Writings on CitiesThe right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to...
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Excerpt: ‘The Language of Progress’, by Chad Parkhill
Season One of BROW TALKS, presented in conjunction with RMIT’s non/fictionLab, will conclude with Chad Parkhill’s lecture ‘The Language of Progress’, to be held next Wednesday April 26th at...
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‘Thinking of You: A Conversation Between Poets’, by J. Jennifer Espinoza and...
Image by fsse8info. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.Continuing our Poets in Conversation series, J. Jennifer Espinoza and Alison Whittaker get into each...
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‘Built Around the Bones: A Review of Elizabeth Tan’s “Rubik”’, by Chloe Papas
Rubik is about death, and the internet, and big corporations taking over the world, and fan-fiction, and loneliness; but despite all that I can’t stop thinking about the fact that it is set in Perth....
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Three Poems by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Image by Rick Payette. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.Ode to Barely Getting ByThe most underrated flavor is the one that keeps you alive....
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‘Amy Witting and the Art of the Long Game’, by Melanie Joosten
With a hint of a sorrow akin to regret it is often noted that Amy Witting only received public recognition and critical acclaim for her work towards the end of her life. Her late blooming is usually...
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We’re Looking for Non-Fiction for the 35th Issue of Our Print Magazine!
Do you write non-fiction? Would you like to be published in the 35th issue of our flagship quarterly attack journal, The Lifted Brow? If so, we have some news for you: we’re looking for completed...
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‘Young Adults of the Corn: A Review of John Darnielle’s ”Universal...
“People shoot movies on soundstages that they try to make look like Nevada,” writes John Darnielle early in his second novel, Universal Harvester. They mostly fail in their efforts, though, unable to...
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‘Inheriting Colombo’, by Fiona Wright
Image by Philippe Arpels. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License. PettahPackets of men’s underwear thrust in my face, the happy plastic of...
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Come to the 2017 Experimental Non-Fiction Workshop!
ABOUTIn the lead-up to the May 29 submission date for The Lifted Brow & non/fictionLab’s Prize for Experimental Non-fiction, we are running a seminar focusing on the histories and practices of...
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Excerpt: ‘Which Treats of Lázaro’s Account of the Friendship He Shared with a...
Image by gskx. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License. Have you ever seen out in the country at midday an electric bulb aglow? I have seen one. It is one of...
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‘Pink Horror: The Violent Feminine in Nicola Maye Goldberg’s “Other Women”’,...
We know tragic women. The well-loved trope of doomed women, fictional or historical, is both overused and comforting in literature; immediately recognisable, somehow soothing. In Nicola Maye Goldberg’s...
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Two Poems by Alison Whittaker
Image by DevonshireMedia. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.sparse shit poemHeard you hurtin’ Got you this Sparse shit...
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Poems by James Brown
Image by Vern. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.if you like someone you want to try to touch their genitalsbefore that though you have to try...
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Women in Sport: ‘The Physical is Feminine’, by Brunette Lenkić
Daily News (Perth), 14 Apr 1950.This essay is the first in a week-long series of commentary pieces that explore women’s experience in sporting culture.Active women can change the world. And that might...
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Women in Sport: ‘Fuck You, Bobby Fischer: The Emotional Labour of Playing...
Illustrations by Michelle Baginski. This essay is the second in a week-long series of commentary pieces that explore women’s experience in sporting culture.The English OpeningWriting this down for the...
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Women in Sport: ‘Under The Covers: sponsorship, spectatorship, and sexism in...
Image by Serge Zacharias. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.This essay is the third in a week-long series of commentary pieces that explore women’s...
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Women in Sport: ‘Out on Instagram: Are Elite Sportswomen Changing What Coming...
Image copyright Lyndall Irons. Used with permission.This essay is the fourth in a week-long series exploring women’s experiences in sporting culture.It’s Valentine’s Day 2017. Chloe Logarzo and Jasmine...
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