the little journal, Issue 1: Spring 2024, Speculative Fiction

Writing WA and Night Parrot Press are excited to announce the creation of a new Western Australian journal that will feature original creative works of poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction and other forms. The journal – small in size, large in impact – will celebrate a different genre with each issue and feature stories that are guaranteed to captivate, challenge, and entertain. 

The inaugural issue of the little journal spotlights speculative fiction, a hugely popular ‘super genre’ that encompasses horror, science fiction and fantasy, or any combination of these. The stories featured in this issue imagine the possible and the impossible; they explore technology, monsters, dystopian societies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, alternate histories, secondary worlds, and gothic vistas. Above all, the stories encapsulate the hope, wonder and dark side of humanity.

The thirty featured WA authors in this issue are:

Katherine Allum

Isabelle Biondi Saville

Jude Bridge

Louise Burlinson

Asha Burnett

Michael Burrows

Andrew Cameron

Sue Clapton

Alison Davis

Rose Dickson

Rachelle Erzay

Cee Ford

Philippa Freegard

Kathryn Glendhill-Tucker

Courtney Guagliardo

Tiffany Hastie

Jodie How

Karen Lowry

Ana Lynch

Alice Macri

Donna Mazza

Amber Moffat

Natasha Monteleone

Joanna Morrison

Kirstie Nicholson

Mara Alice Papavassiliou

Vasco Pimentel

Emily Smith

Sophie St John

Hannah van Didden

Stories were selected by guest editor Dr Aksel Dadswell from ECU, a writer and expert in speculative fiction, alongside series editors Laura Keenan and Linda Martin of Night Parrot Press.

This project is proudly supported by Edith Cowan University and Raine Square.