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Lynette Knapp, Baalunga, 2023. Silver gel pen, acrylic background on canvas. © Lynette Knapp, 2023. Reproduced with permission of the artist.

Westerly: djinda

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In this issue
  • The title of the issue, ‘djinda’ is a Noongar language word from the southwest region of Australia for the stars. djinda was the theme of the 2023 Perth Festival, expanding on previous years’ themes of karla (fire), beeliar (river) and wardan (ocean). The poetry in this issue sounds our collective hope for connection with the stars as a storied skyscape of Country.

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Westerly: djinda

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In this issue:
  • The title of the issue, ‘djinda’ is a Noongar language word from the southwest region of Australia for the stars. djinda was the theme of the 2023 Perth Festival, expanding on previous years’ themes of karla (fire), beeliar (river) and wardan (ocean). The poetry in this issue sounds our collective hope for connection with the stars as a storied skyscape of Country.
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Westerly: First Nations

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In this issue:
  • The stories, poems, oratory, art and images contained within this special digital collaborative project between 'Fives: A Companion to Denver Quarterly' and 'Westerly' is representative of the rich diversity of native and indigenous cultural experience and their unique conceptions of storytelling and world-building.
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Westerly: Doppelgänger

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In this issue:
  • The essayists in this issue take Freud’s ‘The Uncanny’ as a point of departure to explore uncanny doublings in their own diverse creative practice. There is nothing unitary or dutiful in their approach, nor in their creative rethinking.
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Westerly: Great Southern

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In this issue:
  • Denmark Arts is delighted to have partnered with Westerly to produce this Online Special Issue for writers from the Great Southern. The initiative emerged naturally from the depth and breadth of writing in the region.
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Westerly: Literature & Ideas

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In this issue:
  • The themes of 2020’s Literature & Ideas weekend are Land, Money, Power and Sex. These are all, without doubt, words which imply larger projects. This special issue of Westerly gathers festival guests and local writers together, in a chorus which seeks to respond to each theme—and, in doing so, to emphasise the need for closeness and intimacy in the lives we live.
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Westerly: Ancestors’ Words

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In this issue:
  • The stories in Westerly’s 8th Online Special Issue is come from Ancestors' Words, a project that has sought to unite letters written by Noongar people in the ‘Aboriginal Affairs’ section of the State Archives with their descendants.
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Westerly: DisAbility

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In this issue:
  • Westerly’s 7th Online Special Issue is themed on disability, bringing together distinctive voices and extending the conversation around ability. It is edited by Josephine Taylor.
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Westerly: SA

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In this issue:
  • Westerly's 6th special online edition is a collection of writing from and about South Australia, edited by Alexander Cothren and Amy Mead.
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Westerly: Flux

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In this issue:
  • Westerly: Flux is a collection of writing by young Australians, with a focus on Western Australian writers. It includes advice from three Western Australian publishers to young writers on submitting work for consideration.
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Westerly: Crossings

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In this issue:
  • A collection of postgraduate work by students from the University of Western Australia and the University of Canberra, themed around cross-institutional collaboration.

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