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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


Vesna McMaster - Congruent
Incongruities beckon In the shape sorter of life, nothing matches up If only we were Fat, dumb, and oh so happy: Bliss in ignorance ...
Vesna McMaster
May 121 min read


Kevan Smith - Dream
I dream of human evolution. We can all see, feel and know human evolution within our own lifetimes. We are judged not by our skin nor...
Kevan Smith
May 51 min read


Vesna McMaster - Lose
‘I’m going to lose it if you do that.’ A mild yet oddly menacing threat. The calculated aggression of weaponised volatility, of...
Vesna McMaster
May 51 min read


Kevan Smith - Cockroach
Ooooh, it’s dark in here and warm - daylight - SPLAT Nice n smelly. - lift up lid - SPRAYYYY Maybe just across there, no one will see...
Kevan Smith
May 51 min read


Kevan Smith - Lose
To lose a precious print! Can, can we find it? Frantically racing around Montmartre, all laneways, side-streets and a massive la trek. ...
Kevan Smith
May 51 min read


David Gairdner - Lose
A thought at the dentist's office: Replace an old myth with a new metaphor. The pain of death? Only the pain of the anaesthetic needle.
David Gairdner
May 51 min read


Vesna McMaster - Do Dogs Dream in Black and White?
Twitching paws and muffled woofs: are they running through grey grass, or does their world explode in technicolour during the night? It...
Vesna McMaster
Apr 282 min read


David Gairdner - Dream
Blue Whale most large. Sing to our babies and us. We breathe with you, ahh
David Gairdner
Apr 281 min read


David Gairdner - Notes written, half dreaming.
Vital parts of a maverick's life: Semolina, cantina, saddled by Abilena. Saddled by a stove top collage. Saddled by a syringe on a silver...
David Gairdner
Apr 281 min read


Vesna McMaster - Raise
Due to no particular choice of my own, my carbohydrate intake has been pretty limited for the last few years. Carbohydrate is quite the...
Vesna McMaster
Apr 212 min read


Ricci Schwarzler - Raise
You raise me up to soar with eagles. I look down and think, ‘what the hell am I doing here?’ I see a flock of crows coming towards me...
Ricci Schwarzler
Apr 211 min read


Kevan Smith - Raise
Raise eyes to the future, the flapping, torn cloth. Lower eyes to the horror of young men being torn apart, strafed along the beach,...
Kevan Smith
Apr 211 min read


Ricci Schwarzler - A Minute Silence
Ricci - A Minute Silence The birds were calling, so free, nature’s law When the trenches were silent, The time was raw Desolate and...
Ricci Schwarzler
Apr 211 min read


Ricci Schwarzler – Tent
The crows called in the distance. Waaing their way across the grey green sky. Wha whaaaa. We were snuggled in the old canvas tent...
Ricci Schwarzler
Apr 142 min read


Kevan Smith – Tent
‘Yeah, I like tents. I used to travel with my family, as a kid, up and down the NSW coast. Even up to 10 years ago a friend and I would...
Kevan Smith
Apr 141 min read


Jeanette Abery – Tent
‘That’s mine – that’s my tent’ said the boy pointing to the smallest tent on the camping site. How many animals fit into the tent?...
Jeanette Abery
Apr 141 min read


Elaine Abery - Tent
“It’s true. I lived in a tent for a year.” “A whole year, uninterrupted?” “Of course. A year’s a year… I don’t have any of the chicken...
Elaine Abery
Apr 141 min read


Vesna McMaster - Ocean View
‘I’ll book it in tentatively.’ ‘There’s no point beating around the bush. There no other time. Either we do it then or we don’t do it...
Vesna McMaster
Apr 142 min read


Ricci Schwarzler
My Spring was warm, hot, sunny Friends, funny My summer was hot, fun, Laughter, sun. Its autumn. Hot, cold, warm, cool. Colours vibrant...
Ricci Schwarzler
Apr 141 min read


David Gairdner - Leaf
Leaf below bare fig: The skin blushing from fall, covers Eden's guest. God is getting old. We dread that 3am call. Could be any day.
David Gairdner
Apr 141 min read
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