The FIGHT initiative concludes – in two parts! FIGHT: Round 4.2 features work by Cat Cotsell, Sara Crane, Joshua Donovan, Luke Judge, Charles J. March III, and Rodney Wilder. Round 4 part 2 Poets Cat Cotsell Cat is a Canberra-based creative generalist. Their work has previously appeared in FIVE:2:ONE, Everyday Fiction, Hashtag Queer volume more »
FIGHT: Round 4 pt.1
The FIGHT initiative concludes – in two parts! FIGHT: Round 4.1 features work by L. Ashby, Penny Blake, Sahib J. Chandnani, Cat Cotsell, Sara Crane, Joel Ephraims, and Rodney Wilder. Round 4 part 1 Poets L. Ashby Ashby is an award winning poet and short-story writer in Australia with recent work published in Cagibi, more »
FIGHT: Round 3
The FIGHT continues!
FIGHT: Round 3 features work by L. Ashby, Benji Forsyth, Cassandra Jenkins, Aris Kian, Anita Patel, Robert Perchan, Sean West, and Andy Winter.
FIGHT: Round 2
We’ve taken more than a few knocks getting here, but we’re back with another round of FIGHT poetry for you! FIGHT: Round 2 features work by Elliot York Cameron, PS Cottier, Bill Livingston, George Lee, Laura Panopoulos, and Mariette Reefman.Bareknuckle Poet will continue to take submissions for & publish FIGHT. Be sure to check out more »
FIGHT: Round 1
We asked, and you delivered. FIGHT: Round 1 features work by Stephanie Chan, Paula Ethans, Rose Hunter, K.A. Nelson, Katie Pukash, Thabani Tshuma, Les Wicks, and Zoe Alexandria Yapp. Bareknuckle Poet will continue to publish & take submissions for FIGHT. Be sure to check out our submission guidelines and the pledge editorial for more information. more »
Children and Men by Rosalind Moran
Rosalind Moran has written for anthologies, websites, and journals including Meanjin, Overland, The Lifted Brow, and BroadAgenda, among others. She co-founded Cicerone Journal and received a Highly Commended in the 2019 June Shenfield Poetry Award. ABOUT | CONTRIBUTE | THE LATEST All works published by Bareknuckle Poet ISSN 2204 – 0420 are licensed under more »
Omer Ahmed – Two Poems
Omer Ahmed (Pronouns: He/Him) is an educator, writer, and performer. He explores the intersectionality of identity as well as blackness through divinity, which yields to his writing style. Omer is a National Poetry Slam semi-finalist for Houston’s Write About Now 2018 slam team. He is proud to have placed 5th in the nation with his more »
BOOK REVIEW ⌘ CRUMPLING UP BUKOWSKI
✑ Reviewed by Dr Brentley Frazer ⇥ @BrentleyFrazer ⌘ This review first published by The Poets’ Republic ⇥ @poets_republic ◎ Photograph Ali Whitelock at the mic by Brendan Bonsack ⇥ @brendanbonsack and my heart crumples like a coke can by Ali Whitelock I wish review copies would arrive sans publisher’s assertions and solicited opinions from names dropped on more »
Short Fictions by Frankie Brown
Frankie Brown is a poet and gothic fiction writer from Brisbane, Australia. They have been published in the Tundish Review, and are currently studying at the University of Queensland. Their chief influences are Mervyn Peake and Virginia Woolf. © Frankie Brown, 2018 ABOUT | CONTRIBUTE | THE LATEST All works published by Bareknuckle Poet more »
The Women at the Banya by Jane Downing
Jane Downing has been writing for many years with short stories published in journals around Australia and overseas, including in Southerly, Westerly, Overland, The Big Issue, Griffith Review, UTS Anthology, Australian Short Stories, Antipodes (US), Headland (NZ), Kunapipi (Denmark), Paris Transcontinental (France) and Silverfish (Malaysia). In 2016 she was one of two Australians shortlisted, out of nearly 4000 entries from 47 countries, for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. more »