A short story by Dorothy Simmons, based on the story of the first woman hanged in Victoria (Winner of the Marjorie Barnard award, 2015)
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Lost for 150 Years: Burke’s Pistol Returns to Beechworth
An incredible story: There is limited money and only three days to spare, and an important piece of Beechworth history has become available ... half way around the world ...
At Last, A Seed in the Hollow Womb
A short story by Raylene Brown set in the Snowy Mountains. It was first published in story.book: a collection of fiction (long and short), Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Review's Prize -Winning Fiction 2011.
The Chooks’ Poet
A poem by Sally Denshire, originally published in 2016 in fourWtwenty-seven.
A Suit of Armour
A short story by Jane Downing, set in Beechworth around the time that Ned Kelly found inspiration for his armour. Originally published in Offset 15, Victoria University, 2015; shortlisted in The Age Short Story Competition, 2012.
“After my mother enlisted me in the Burmese Army”: A Story That Just Had to Be Told
From Bihar to Berkeley, the extraordinary life of Plum Rutherford Haet, written by Andrea Palmer of Gundowring, Victoria.
Intangible Forces: the Art of Meg Sprouster
Albury painter Meg Sprouster has a deep affinity for colour and pattern, but her art is also profoundly engaged with ideas.
Book launch
FourW twenty-eight is this year's edition of an annual anthology of new writing and graphics from Booranga Writers’ Centre.
after “Horses”
A poem by Sally Denshire.
Worn linen covers, delicate illustrations and historical signifance: The Stanley Athenaeum collection
The old books of the Stanley Athenaeum are beautiful. Some are quirky, even a little bizarre. Others are historically significant.
