Ongoing Commitments
Alexandra Scale reminds us that the “shipping of souls” to offshore detention centres creates physical and emotional scars for thousands of asylum seekers.
Creative – Page 13
“University is Not Seen as a Black Space”
Dr Katelyn Barney on the need to create pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into Research Higher Degrees.
“Chocolate Fix” and “Two Dollars a Day”
Lizz Murphy offers two poems on child labour – from harvesting cocoa to mining gold
Akinyi Martha (full stop)
This story by Filipa Bellette won Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
No Asians. Your Desire
This striking poem by Jake Dennis won the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
Borderlands
This poem by Hayley Elliott-Ryan was shortlisted for the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
After
This moving story by Christy Collins was shortlisted for Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
A right to be lazy? Part 2
Jeff Sparrows’s monograph on idleness, rights, and why we ought to work a little harder at working a little less.
Here are the dogs
This story by Laura McPhee-Browne was shortlisted for Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
Another World
This poem by Margaret Ruckert was shortlisted for the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
A right to be lazy? Part 1
Jeff Sparrows’s monograph on idleness, rights, and why we ought to work a little harder at working a little less.
The Single Father
This moving poem by Tiggy Johnson was shortlisted in the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
Anna Be Quick
This surreal tale from Jamie Derkenne made the Right Now Fiction Competition shortlist, judged by Tony Birch and Anna Funder.