by Southerly | Dec 5, 2019 | Blog
Gabriela Bourke I’m a crime aficionado. One of my three bookshelves is entirely dedicated to crime fiction and out of the three it happens to be the bookshelf with the lightest coating of dust. Unable to sleep one night, I revisited the shelf and plucked from it a...
by Southerly | Nov 22, 2019 | Blog
Tess Scholfield-Peters I sit at the heavy antique desk that belonged to my mother and trawl through online newspapers, squinting at the scanned black and white pages that have become distorted and near-illegible in the digitising process. I’m trying to find scraps...
by Southerly | Nov 17, 2019 | Blog
Dave Drayton i i 3095 Research I’m trying to reassure myself that the time and energy spent translating Robin’s story wasn’t wasted. I now know how the game works, how far I can bend pronunciation or stretch grammar in writing around the postcodes. I can get to work...
by Southerly | Nov 17, 2019 | Blog
Dave Drayton i i 2760 Ropes Crossing On occasion the threads braid together and present a knot or a node or an answer. Halfway through the 13 September 1967 issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly is a promotion for a storytelling game called Postcode, which requires...
by Southerly | Nov 14, 2019 | Blog
Dave Drayton i i 4370 The Hermitage In front of the man, in fact almost all around him – scattered on the butchers papered trestle table he sits at, taped and tacked to the three dividing walls arranged in a U suggesting a room, tossed or lost to the floor – are...