Issue 23 | Mascara Literary Review

Mascara Literary Review

Issue 23

‘Silent and Empty Louvre’ Photography by Eva Strus

Australian Government | Australia Council for the Arts

Poetry

Claire Albrecht

Nadja Fernandes

Featured Writer

Anna Kazumi Stahl translated by Alice Whitmore

Deborah Cass Prize

Things I Used to Believe by Karina Ko

Maybe it’s Wanchai by Emily Sun

The Origin of Things by Su-May Tan

WWF Short Story Prize

Cat Money by Jane O’Sullivan

Artichoke Hearts by Tanya Vavilova

Fiction

The Family Circle by Kavita Nandan

Evelina by Elleke Boehmer

The Heart and the Choke by Michelle Hamadache

Writers In Detention

Interviews

Adventures in the Panoramic Delta: An Interview with Chris Andrews, Translator of Marcelo Cohen’s Melodrome

Tony Messenger interviews Melody Paloma

Translations

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok translated by Paul Magee

Marina Tsvetaeva translated by Paul Magee

Paul de Brancion translated by Elaine Lewis

New Worlds

World Literatures and Global South Conference, Mascara’s Global South Salon

Avant-garde Awards

2019 Mascara Avant-garde Awards

Reviews/Essays

Jean-François Vernay reviews On David Malouf by Nam Le

Dmetri Kakmi reviews Sergius Seeks Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, transl. Tiffany Tsao

Jack Stanton reviews The Grass Library by David Brooks

Gabriela Bourke reviews Lucida Intervalla by John Kinsella

Helen Gildfind reviews Calenture by Lindsay Tuggle

William Farnsworth reviews Glass Life by Jo Langdon

Judith Beveridge launches Vishvarūpa by Michelle Cahill

Eleanor Hooker launches out of emptied cups by Anne Casey

Kyra Thomsen reviews The short story of you and I by Richard James Allen

Paul Giffard-Foret reviews The Red Pearl by Beth Yahp

Jake Goetz reviews Coach Fitz by Tom Lee

Samantha Trayhurn reviews Imminence by Mariana Dimópulos

Nicholas Jose launches The Burning Elephant by Christopher Raja

Rose Lucas reviews Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn

Terri Ann Quan Sing reviews Axis Book 1: ‘Areal' by a.j. carruthers

Vivienne Glance reviews The Book of Thistles by Noëlle Janaczewska

Matthew da Silva reviews Rain Birds by Harriet McKnight

James Paull reviews Journey to Horseshoe Bend by T.G.H Strehlow

Felicity Plunkett reviews The Measure of Skin by Ramon Loyola

Jack Cameron Stanton reviews Falling Out of Love with Ivan Southall by Gabrielle Carey

Zoya Patel reviews Hijabi in Jeans by Isil Cosar

Gabriella Munoz reviews The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright

Hoa Pham reviews No Friend But The Mountains by Behrouz Boochani

Jeffrey Errington reviews All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimópulos

Geoff Page reviews Mosaics from the Map by Robyn Rowland

Tamara Lazaroff reviews No Country Woman by Zoya Patel

Mel O’Connor reviews Dark Matters by Susan Hawthorne

Light Borrowers: UTS Writers’ Anthology 2018 reviewed by Beejay Silcox

Siobhan Hodge reviews Renga by John Kinsella and Paul Kane

Vagabond deciBels3 Launch Speech by Emily Stewart

From cultures of violence to ways of peace by Anne Elvey

Bonny Cassidy reviews João by John Mateer