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Morning Light 2023 charcoal on paper 49 × 77 cm courtesy of the artist Catherine O’Donnell’s drawingsportray the architecture of a formthat is close to her; fibro houses inWestern Sydney and regional NewSouth Wales, both the façade and theinterior. Of Morning Light she writes,‘At the heart of my practice are myinterests in minimalist structures,the pictorial power of illusion, andthe pursuit of a shared narrative. Bycombining these elements, I revealnarratives within structures and findvitality within simplicity providinga space for personal reflection andemotional connection to the inherentbeauty of everyday moments.’…

Nam Le’s short story collection TheBoat received the PEN/MalamudAward, the Anisfield-Wolf BookAward, the Dylan Thomas Prize, thePrime Minister’s Literary Award, andthe Melbourne Prize for Literature.His poetry has been publishedin American Poetry Review, The ParisReview, BOMB and elsewhere. Thepoems in this sequence are drawnfrom 36 Ways of Writing a VietnamesePoem, his debut book of poetry,which will be published in 2024. Lelives in Melbourne. [10. Reclamatory: 1] Me chink but not so fast withconsole or condemn, me chinked,self-chinked in pidgyhole & niche,notch cranny-hole creft crack—cramped in here it is, & humid,is just dey in my mouth, says she,so ray back on bed, hang backhead, jop jaw, unkink dat magicpassage, straight & true, pink shutuppromise past da jag & glint & hard Ogorgeous gorge for gorgèd dinkynot-too-thinky chink-head O &O & O O…

Maryam Nazarian is an Iranian poetand the founder of the Omid PoetryWorkshop. In 2011 she published apoetry collection, The Old Flags ofPeace, a work of anti-war literaturethat offers a unique perspective onthe prevailing traditions and thestatus of women in Iranian society.Her work appears here for the firsttime in English translation. Arash Khoshsafa is an Iranian writerand translator, and a PhD candidatein English literature at the Universityof Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. One I’ve set the breakfast, the kisses, and the keys on the table.Please, forgive meif I find freedom more pleasant than your love. Two The one who invented prisonsis also the inventor of freedom.And dreams were such invisible seeds in the heart.I’m standing right before you;Shoot my dream if you can Three I fearThe dayMy sonFills his colour pencil…

Subscribe Now And receive each issue of HEAT Australia’s international literary magazine Since its inception in 1996, HEAT has been renowned for a dedication to quality and a commitment to publishing innovative and imaginative poetry, fiction, essays and hybrid forms. Now, in the third series, we bring together a selection of the most interesting and adventurous Australian and overseas writers. HEAT is posted to subscribers every two months, forming a unique, cohesive whole. Your subscription supports independent literary publishing, and enables us to cultivate and champion new writing. Visit giramondopublishing.com/heat/ to subscribe. Submission Guidelines HEAT welcomes submissions of fiction, essays, poetry and translated works throughout the year. We encourage writing which gives full rein to the author’s voice, without the restriction of a word limit. In the case of poetry,…

Paddy O’Reilly is the author offour novels, two collections of awardwinning short stories, and a novella.Her most recent novel, Other Houses,was shortlisted in the 2023 PrimeMinister’s Literary Awards. DON’T KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENED but my shoes my skirt my shirt I want them all in colour. I’ll throw out all the black and brown, all the neat shirts and flesh-coloured pantyhose, stuff them into supermarket bags and drop them slyly into bins at the shopping centre like people do with dog turds and smelly things they don’t want to pollute their bins at home. Bought this purple silk dress – it should have been mourning black but she’d understand – and wore it on a thirty-five degree day. Now it’s collapsed around me like a used parachute or maybe a condom…

Bella Li is the author ofArgosy (2017), Lost Lake (2018)and Theory of Colours (2021). Herwork has won the Victorian andNew South Wales Premiers’ LiteraryAwards for poetry, and an ABDAaward for book design. I. La sepoltura del sole The city sits on an elevated terrace above an alluvial plain. The city, otherwise known as the House of Ra — otherwise remembered intermittently as the scene of a burial, now forgotten — is almost entirely deserted. Of the inhabitants that remain, the remaining high priests are scattered in the skeletons of buildings eaten by fire. Their worship is fervent, though intermittent. At the entrance to the city, thousands of kilometres from the ancient imperial capital, Rome, the Great Temple bears the scars of Cambyses, Persian king of kings, and conqueror in a…

Stephanie Radok is a writer andartist living on Kaurna country. Sheworked as an art critic and editorwith Artlink, Artlink Indigenousand The Adelaide Review. Her booksAn Opening: Twelve Love StoriesAbout Art – which was longlistedfor the inaugural Stella Prize – andBecoming a Bird: Untold StoriesAbout Art were published byWakefield Press. Her work is in thecollections of Geelong Gallery, theNational Gallery of Victoria and theNational Gallery of Australia. January 1. Caught like a child with the alphabet in my hands. 3. The past is very present. 4. A certain structure to a day with the quiet goal of developing own work for own sake and other possibilities. 5. What is kept for memory’s sake. Are there other ways to keep things? 6. Shedding the past/creating the present/shaping the future. 7. At the beginning of the…

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 12 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. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. This project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.…

Jordi Infeld is a writer living onWurundjeri land. Her first bookof poetry, Certainly (certainly), acollaboration with Rachel Schenberg,was published in 2023 with no morepoetry. She is currently working on adoctoral thesis at Deakin Universityon text and textile. I THINK MOSTLY ABOUT WHAT I’M GOING TO EAT, what I’m going to wear, and what I’m going to write. Today, I’m thinking about what I’m going to wear and how it’s going to hold me and my belongings. A snack, a pencil, a pair of snips. Before there is a pocket, there is a pouch. And before a pouch, a hand. But the hand needed to be free. So the pouch was tied around the waist beneath the garments, and a slit was made in the overgarments. Then Lucy Locket lost her…

The Journals of Mary Shelley 17 February 1823 Esther Cross (Buenos Aires, 1961)is the author of several novelsand books of short stories, amongthem Kavanagh, Radiana, Treshermanos and La mujer que escribióFrankenstein, from which this pieceis excerpted. She also edited, alongwith Félix della Paolera, two booksof interviews: one with Borges, theother with Bioy Casares. Her bookshave been awarded several prizes,among them the Fortabat FoundationNovel Prize, the Regional Novel Prizeand the Siglo XXI Narrative Prize.She has been awarded the Fulbrightand Civitella Ranieri scholarships,and has translated Richard Yates,William Goyen and Mark Twain intoSpanish. In 2023 she was elected tothe Argentine Academy of Letters. Alice Whitmore is a writer andliterary translator living on EasternMaar/Gunditjmara country. Hertranslation of Mariana Dimópulos’sImminence was awarded the2021 New South Wales Premier’sTranslation Prize. IN ROME’S PROTESTANT CEMETERY, at the grave…

Fiction Max Easton Paradise Estate Nicholas Jose The Idealist Pip Adam Audition Sanya Rushdi Hospital (trans. Arunava Sinha) 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 Amy Crutchfield The Cyprian 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…