COASTLINES JOURNAL
ISSUE 11
August 2026
This issue is dedicated to the writer Moya Costello (1952-2025), who lectured at Southern Cross University in the creative writing program from 2008 to 2017, and continued as an adjunct lecturer. You can read Moya's short story ‘The Literary Festival’ from Coastlines Journal issue 9/10 here and Lynda Hawryluk's tribute to Moya here.
POETRY
Mr Clean
RICHARD JAMES ALLEN
The Corporate Prayer
STEVE EVANS
From JUKEBOX
KEVIN HART
The Calendar Keeper
JOHN LEONARD
Prototype
MARTIN VILLANUEVA
Nurragi Trail
JUDE AQUILINA
The Hardness of Bone
NIGEL FEATHERSTONE
From A Tasmanian Epic Poem
GRAEME HETHERINGTON
Hermit Crabs
ANITA PATEL
Budget In-Flight Entertainment
MIRIAM WEI WEI LO
Putrid glimmer counterpart
PASCALLE BURTON
Skinny Love
LIAM FERNEY
Eros: the Bitch, the Sweet
RACHEL LAND
THE BOOK OF EXTINCTIONS
ANDREW SANT
What Could Go Wrong?
LES WICKS
Imagining the Beach
ANNE COLLINS
Postcards from Byron
DEB FUHRMANN
untitled (no antidote)
JACINTA LE PLASTRIER
IF
NATHAN SHEPHERDSON
NON-FICTION
Tribute to Moya Costello
LYNDA HAWRYLUK
The Most Beautiful Bookshop in the World
NIGEL KRAUTH
The End of the Ice Age
RACHAEL MEAD
Black Rhino
LAURA-ANN ROBERTS
DRAMA
Transcribed for Organ
MITCHELL WELCH
FICTION
Fish
G. S. DICKSON
Tinderbox
BELINDA GENOVESE
Excerpt from Into the Silence
JANIE CONWAY HERRON
Her Skip
NICOLE HOBSON
Infestation
ANDREW LEGGETT
Capriole
TANYA DELYS MANDORLA
Laws of Existence
DEREK WRIGHT
The Love Knot
LAURA FRY
The Last Dream of Nadia Lembrook
RILEY HENDERSON
Breathtaking
CALEB HOGBIN
The Atonement of Arthur Wharton
SIMON JENSEN
Interception
ROZANNA LILLEY
The Coast Road
FIADH STORM