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

From JUKEBOX
KEVIN HART

Prototype
MARTIN VILLANUEVA

Nurragi Trail
JUDE AQUILINA

The Hardness of Bone
NIGEL FEATHERSTONE

From A Tasmanian Epic Poem
GRAEME HETHERINGTON

Hermit Crabs
ANITA PATEL

Skinny Love
LIAM FERNEY

untitled (no antidote)
JACINTA LE PLASTRIER

IF
NATHAN SHEPHERDSON

NON-FICTION


Black Rhino
LAURA-ANN ROBERTS

DRAMA


Transcribed for Organ
MITCHELL WELCH

FICTION


Fish
G. S. DICKSON

Tinderbox
BELINDA GENOVESE

Her Skip
NICOLE HOBSON

Infestation
ANDREW LEGGETT

Capriole
TANYA DELYS MANDORLA

Laws of Existence
DEREK WRIGHT

The Love Knot
LAURA FRY

Breathtaking
CALEB HOGBIN

Interception
ROZANNA LILLEY

The Coast Road
FIADH STORM