Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 10 in HEAT

Mumbles & Clunks (Plate 44) 2018 monotype 31 × 23 cm (image and plate) courtesy of the artist and ReadingRoom, Naarm/Melbourne Matlok Griffiths’s suite of forty-four monotypes, Mumbles & Clunks, was made over six weeks when Griffiths had access to another artist’s printing press. His journal drawings, as well as lists of words lifted from newspaper crosswords, became the starting point for several compositions in which personal inspirations are refigured, abstracted and transformed through techniques of repetition and variation. The resulting images, at once spare and bold, bear material traces of the artist’s ever-evolving process. Mumbles & Clunks was acquired by the NGV in 2020 and is on display as part of the Melbourne Now exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne.…

Harald Voetmann is a Danish writer who has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. He has written novels, short stories, poetry, and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He also translates classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Awake, the first in his series of three historical novels, was published in English in 2022. Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen is a Danish translator born in 1986. She currently lives in Copenhagen where she also works as an illustrator and literary editor. SOMEONE DID GIVE BIRTH TO ME. Why remains unclear. Maybe they wanted to be loved, or it just sort of happened. It’s unlikely they’re alive. Then again, modern medicine. But so much time has passed since the fruitless event. The one who gave birth to me and the…

Fiction Pip Adam Audition Sanya Rushdi Hospital Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Shaun Prescott The Town Jon Fosse Septology (trans. Damion Searls) Shaun Prescott Bon and Lesley George Alexander Mortal Divide: The Autobiography of Yiorgos Alexandroglou Luke Carman An Ordinary Ecstasy Norman Erikson Pasaribu Happy Stories, Mostly (trans. Tiffany Tsao) Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow Non-fiction Imants Tillers Credo Bastian Fox Phelan How to Be Between Antigone Kefala Late Journals Evelyn Juers The Dancer: A Biography for Philippa Cullen Gerald Murnane Last Letter to a Reader Poetry Louise Carter Golden Repair π.O. The Tour Luke Beesley In the Photograph Grace Yee Chinese Fish Autumn Royal The Drama Student Lucy Dougan Monster Field Michael Farrell Googlecholia Lisa Gorton Mirabilia Zheng Xiaoqiong In the Roar of the Machine (trans. Eleanor Goodman) Lionel Fogarty…

Isabella Trimboli is a critic, essayist and editor. Her writing on film, literature and art has appeared in publications such as Metrograph Journal, Sydney Review of Books, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Art Guide and The Guardian. She lives in Melbourne. THE IMAGE HAS VAGUE PROVENANCE, circulating on corners of the internet that sever history and source. All we have is a caption, parroted across platforms: ‘Anaïs Nin with her diaries in a bank vault, c. 1950.’ If the time-stamp is correct, this was around when Anaïs was writing erotica for a dollar per page, and self-publishing experimental novels that were met with disdain, if receiving any response at all. She was spending more time in California, at the behest of Henry Miller, and would appear in Kenneth Anger’s bacchanalia…

Kat Capel is a writer of fiction and poetry. They grew up living in Castlemaine on Dja Dja Wurrung land, in the small town of Tennant Creek on Warumungu country, and in Cairns, also known as Gimuy. Their first book of poetry, Work & Love, was published by Incendium Radical Library in 2021 and was highly commended for the Deakin University Nonfiction Prize. Kat is also currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University. They are working on their first novel from their home on Wurundjeri country in North Melbourne. THE HOUSE HAD BRICKS the colour of runny shit and a linoleum floor that was so thin you could scrape a hole in it by pushing back your chair. When Michael arrived, his father was talking on the phone in the…

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Ellena Savage is the author of the 2020 essay collection Blueberries, which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and longlisted for the Stella Prize. SIMÓN ENTERED MY ROOM and gave me a look. Unconsciously, and then consciously, I pressed my body into a pose, breasts forward, ass to one side, and lifted the sheet, an invitation that suggested this was how I always lay before 10 a.m., like a steamed clam. Since we’d moved into the house on the island with many rooms, three or four months earlier, Simón and I luxuriated in the possibilities for privacy the rooms afforded – from one another, and from the world. Occupying separate bedrooms was intended to add a deeper texture to our lovemaking, because we would not, like other couples,…

Lin Bai was born in Guangxi Province in 1958 and graduated in library sciences at Wuhan University. She worked as a librarian, a reader for a state film studio and a newspaper journalist, before beginning to write full-time. She has nine novels, as well as novellas, short stories, essays, and collections of poetry to her credit. Her 1994 novel, A War of One’s Own, from which this piece is drawn, was an instant success and established her as a pioneer of women’s literature in China. In 2013, her latest novel, The Chronicle of My life in the North, won the prestigious Lao She Literature Prize. She lives in Beijing. Nicky Harman is a freelance literary translator from Chinese. When not translating, she works on Paper-Republic.org, a non-profit website promoting Chinese…

We respectfully acknowledge the Gadigal, Burramattagal and Cammeraygal peoples, the traditional owners of the lands where Giramondo’s offices are located. We extend our respects to their ancestors and to all First Nations peoples and Elders. HEAT Series 3 Number 10 has been prepared in collaboration with Ligare Book Printers and Candida Stationery; we thank them for their support. The Giramondo Publishing Company is grateful for the support of Western Sydney University in the implementation of its book publishing program. Giramondo Publishing is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts. This project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.…