Winner of the 2020 Magpie Award for Poetry for ‘they say you will teach me more than I will ever teach you’, Charlene Kwiatkowski has a knowing finger on the pulse of family. Charlene has generously gifted us with another of her beautiful pieces. ‘How far the apple falls’ is an ekphrastic poem inspired by the poignant surrealist sculpture Father and Son.
Belonging In Weiwei Xu‘s graphic short ‘Chimæra’, a child experiences the pull of possible selves that exists when living in an ‘in-between’ cultural space. As […]
All That Glitters In ‘Wall Street at Night’, a graphic short that marries a poem by Lola Ridge with illustrations by Chaille Stovall, we take […]
Sway, Bend, Sigh That phrase — sway, bend, sigh — is just one of the many evocative images from Maria Ford‘s second-place-winning poem for our […]
Left Behind In ‘Mourgadze’ by Cameron MacDonald, winner of the 2019 SiWC Storytellers Award, there’s more than just chewed-up pens and crumpled paper to discover […]
Magic at the Core Zoë Johnson deftly explores matters of love, identity, and self expression in their evocative story ‘Inherited Love of Unexplainable Things’. We […]
In ‘Starry Nights’ by David Milne, glow-in-the-dark ceiling stars aren’t the only thing to appear when the lights go out. Enjoy this excerpt from Pulp Literature Issue 28, Autumn 2020 as a young man is about to discover the many things that can go bump in the night
The first version of this blog post was rather sombre; the second a little too cheeky. How does one talk about a year full of fear and loss, toilet paper and hand sanitizer?
To Cut or Not to Cut That is the question! Desperate times call for desperate measures, as Susan Pieters in ‘Hoax’ unlocks a secret and […]
Proust had his madeleine; I have the Christmas tree. One whiff of the sharp sappy pine, with its hints of citrus and earth, and I am my childhood self. But what if that memory prompt, that necessary object, ceased to exist?’ Find out with this chilling excerpt from Pulp Literature Issue 5, Winter 2015.
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