Stories - Journal

Funded by Copyright Agency, Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and our Founders Circle, Journal is an online column hosted on the Centre for Stories’ website showcasing writing by local, national, and international writers. The column includes stories of creative non-fiction about real personal experiences. Journal serves as an immediate response to the pandemic's effect on writers.

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Journal

NO AMOUNT OF BLACK COPS WILL MAKE THINGS BETTER by Veronica Heritage-Gorrie

'Come the colonisers, come the crime.'
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QORBAN'S STORY by Phil Sparrow

'They had some skills, but mostly they had a good attitude: learners, not experts. Poor rural people do not want city boofheads coming to tell them how to fix their lives up.'
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SHIFT by Alyssa Shapland

'It was always jarring to come back; the hand-drawn ‘I Can Do It’ poster on the ceiling above the bed betraying the anxieties of the insecure teenage girl that I was claiming not to be anymore.'
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RECIPE FOR RHYTHM by Josephine Clarke

'I can close my eyes and hear it still – the patter and rumbling of the dialect in the cosy kitchens of my childhood village.'
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RADICAL LOCAL by Karen Lee

'Of course there were hills and valleys, I think I knew, but as I go slower, go over old ground, unexpected views emerge around corners in un-walked lanes, as I ascend slopes barely noticed before.'
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THAT DAY by Sarabjeet Garcha

'But her passing was so sudden that she couldn’t glimpse her ‘flag of sky’ one last time. When eyes close without warning, who can tell what moment of beauty they freeze on?'
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DRAWING WHITE LINES ON THE WATER by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp

'After nine years of trying to make sense of what plays out at our nation’s borders, I am left with more questions than answers.'
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SOUND TRAVELS by Franchesca Walker

'The problem came at night, usually after I’d spent hours watching or reading the news. In that space – after dark but before bed – silence became a vacuum that worries rushed to fill.'
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HOPE AND MOTIVATION WHILE WRITING by Jasmin McGaughey

'I want to write my own love letter to my heritage, to show that First Nations girls, Torres Strait Islander girls and African Australian girls, can be in fiction and have adventures and be very important to Australian literature on a whole.'
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